Carmiel
Banasky
TV Writer
Podcast / Audio Drama Writer Climate Storyteller
Novelist
Worldbuilder
Selected Work
About
Carmiel Banasky's career spans novels, television, film, and audio, and she is a leader in climate storytelling. Since staffing on the Amazon show UNDONE, she developed and was Head Writer on a two-season climate-centered sci-fi podcast for Wondery, THE LAST CITY, starring Rhea Seehorn, which reached #1 in fiction. She also co-wrote a short film starring Margaret Cho, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, and which she’s developing into a feature. She was a Film Independent Fellow, and was selected as an Unreasonable Conversation Climate Storytelling Fellow. She had the unique opportunity to explore the Arctic on a sailing vessel, studying and writing about climate change. As Head Writer and VP of Editorial for the nonprofit Good Energy, she led the development of the Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change, helping screenwriters integrate climate across genres
with joy and humor.
Prior to Los Angeles, Carmiel spent four years on the road at writing fellowships, and she once tried her damndest to open a Planned Parenthood in Mississippi. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, The Suicide of Claire Bishop. Her writing has appeared, among other places, in The Guardian, Variety, LA Review of Books, and on NPR. She earned her MFA from Hunter College, where she was a professor of creative writing.
