✨ Bridget in Manhattan has won Best LGBTQ Screenplay at the New York Script Awards, and I am beyond honored! ✨ Set in the summer of 1920, during America’s Progressive Era, the story unfolds at a time when the fight for equality was both exhilarating and fraught with challenges. The ratification of the 19th Amendment had just granted women the right to vote, ushering in a new era of possibilities. Yet, for LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly women in elite Manhattan society, life remained deeply constrained. While Bridget shape-shifts to become Beatrice Campbell” in order to hide her Irish heritage, she is not the only woman with secrets to hide. The screenplay shines a light on the hidden lives of women like Bridget’s mentor, Anne Tracy Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan, and her close circle, sometimes called the “Triumvirate,” which included Anne Harriman Vanderbilt and Eleanor Robson Belmont. While these women were public champions of progress—fighting for women’s labor rights and Euro...