TRICIA AURAND is an award-winning screenwriter, author, and podcast host with a growing portfolio of acclaimed work. Her screenplays have received recognition at festivals and competitions worldwide, and she currently has multiple scripts in production and development.
Tricia’s produced feature films include A Heart Full of Hope (2025), The Christmas Chain (2024), They Crawl Beneath (2023), and Middleton Christmas (2020), which received special recognition at the Donate Life Hollywood Awards. Tricia was a frequent collaborator with the late Oscar nominee STEPHEN J. RIVELE (Ali, Nixon), working together on several historical screenplays and biopics.
Beyond screenwriting, Tricia is the co-author of A Dangerous Beauty: The Kennedys, the Mob, the FBI, and Judith Exner — the Woman Who Linked Them All, which will be released by Post Hill Press in October 2026. Her first nonfiction book, Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story, about pioneering female fighter pilot Nadine Ramsey, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2020 and is a notable aviation biography on Amazon.
Online, Tricia is a writer for popular YouTube channel Lessons from the Screenplay (1.5 million subscribers). She also co-hosts Beyond the Screenplay, a top-100 Film & TV podcast on iTunes and Spotify. In her spare time, she runs a thriving coverage and consulting business, helping other writers achieve their goals for their projects.
Tricia lives in Los Angeles, where she continues to develop impactful stories for the screen and beyond.
“Her sense of structure, eye for detail, and ear for dialogue are unerring – the kinds of things that cannot be taught. She is a truly gifted person, possessed with a rare gift of storytelling, poetry, and insight into character.”