Seth Michael Donsky is an American filmmaker, producer/screenwriter and former journalist. Biography As of 2023 Mr. Donsky's feature screenplay Stardusk, about the life of transgender Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling is in pre-production with the Oscar-award winning producer Bruce Cohen. He is also adapting Kate Bornstein's A Queer and Pleasant Danger (Beacon Press) and Lauren Roedy Vaughn's OCD, The Dude and Me (Penguin Group) (Dial Press) for the screen. His feature screenplay Grit N' Glitter, the story of Allan Carr producing La Cage aux Folles (musical) on Broadway during the HIV/AIDS in the United States was one of five finalists for the Enderby Entertainment Award in the 2018 Austin Film Festival for screenplays with a unique voice and distinct vision. The finalists were selected by Rick Dugdale, Donald Petrie and Daniel Petrie, Jr. of Enderby Entertainment. It also placed in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. He holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University School of the Arts where he twice received the Dean's Fellowship. He wrote and directed the short film Loopy as his thesis film for graduation from Columbia. His feature film debut Twisted (1996 film), which he wrote and directed, was produced towards the tail end of the New Queer Cinema. Loopy (film) was adapted from a short-story by Edgar Award winning, British crime writer Ruth Rendell and featured a performance by Tony Award winning Elizabeth Franz. It was produced by Benjamin Odell (producer), a fellow student at Columbia University School of the Arts at the time. Loopy premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, played at the Palm Springs International ShortFest and the Cinequest Film Festival among others, took 1st Runner Up at the HBO Short Film Competition at the Savannah College of Art and Design film festival and was broadcast in rotation on the IFC (American TV channel). Twisted premiered at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, won the audience award at the GLBTQ Film Festival of Turin, was included in the Museum of Modern Art's Charles Dickens bicentenary film series and subsequently accepted into the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film's permanent film collection. Twisted was the feature film debut of Tony and Emmy winning Billy Porter (entertainer) and the penultimate screen performance of Oscar and Emmy-nominated William Hickey (actor). It also featured performances from Tony-award winning Anthony Crivello and Elizabeth Franz. Twisted'''s theatrical run was met with great praise from critics