Writer/Director
Asha Taylor
FEVER
last summer
STILL
WOLF
Asha started working in high school at Chick-fil-a. While she avoids the controversial chicken these days, she quickly learned that fulfilling work is less about the job and more about the people. After being the first woman in her family to graduate from college in her home state of Tennessee, she had no clue what to do with her film degree from Vanderbilt University. She picked up a job captioning videos for an Austin start-up. She saved for a deposit on a room in Austin and made the move, finding work at an insurance call center and a video editing internship. From there, Asha joined the customer service team at a marketing company and worked overtime to help out on the video team, eventually being hired as a full time video producer. She started making creative work with friends and learned more about writing in entertainment. She took a workshop on being a writer’s assistant in television, and when she saw an opening to be the writer’s assistant on one of her favorite shows, she applied.
Asha enjoys writing about antiheroes and misfits who overcome challenges through empathy and ingenuity. She got her start in entertainment at Wonderstorm working as a writer’s assistant for The Dragon Prince, an Emmy-winning Netflix Original. Play-testing and writing for the video game, Xadia, was an exciting bonus. Her last couple of projects as a Staff Writer involved exciting and heartwarming superhero action for upcoming animated Marvel shows.
Asha has also screened her work around the country. Her short film, “The Pastor’s Wife” most recently premiered at the 2025 Los Angeles International Shorts Film Festival. Her first experimental film, ”Fever” premiered at the 2018 Contrast Film Festival, streamed on Hyperreal TV and was featured by Co-Lab Projects. The second, “Wolf,” premiered at Babesfest 2019, an Austin festival supporting women and nonbinary artists. The narrative short, “Last Summer,” was a finalist for Best Texas Short at DBFF 2022 and her script “Imperfect Pepper” is an Official Selection for Coverfly’s 2023 Pitch Week. She’s currently developing her first feature film, which is in the top 18% of projects on Coverfly.