Nonfiction: Finding Mañana
Leanna is currently working on a non-fiction personal development book called Finding Mañana based on her holistic life-coaching, and is currently seeking literary representation for publishing. Join the Finding Mañana movement here with daily tips, weekly blogs and podcasts to help you shift your family lifestyle towards self-care, gratitude, quality time, open play and so much more!
Tv/Screenwriting:
Leanna is represented by Carlyne Grager at Dramatic Artists Agency.
Leanna’s current tv/screenwriting portfolio includes:
NATIVE AMERICA: drama limited series, partnered with Paulo de Oliveira, producer of Outlander
& impact producer, Bonnie Abaunza
A teen Native American girl forced to attend an Indian Boarding School run by the Government and Catholic Church in the early 1970s, enters her dream world, a utopian Native America, where she learns how to destroy her abusive boarding school and reclaim her culture, but may die trying.
CENTENNIAL SHADOWS: One-hour dramedy teen series with witches and vampires
Four estranged thirteen year-olds learn they’re witches, living amongst vampires, when a haunted half-world underneath their school threatens to destroy humanity. Fast talking, quippy, Gilmore Girls’esque dramedy meets Harry Potter & Twilight
THE OXFORD JOURNAL: Women-empowerment drama feature
In this story of personal empowerment, Maeve, twenty three and directionless, tags along to her older sister's teaching exchange in Oxford, but when she discovers the personal journal of the great author, Dorothy Sayers, history unexpectedly shapes her future.
THE MOURNING CLUB: Teen dramedy feature
THE COLORFUL LIFE OF LILLY BRIGGS: half-hour, 7 time award-winning, multicultural tween dramedy, rated #1 on Coverfly Red List for family half-hour in 2023
When 11 year old artist Lilly Briggs’ Native American dad remarries a younger woman and moves in next door to her Puerto Rican mother, Lilly learns to navigate life as a multi-cultural middle schooler in a predominantly White town.
MERRY MITTENWALD: Puerto Rican lead, Hallmark-style TV Christmas romance feature
Camila Morales, a driven project manager, must revamp a small Pacific Northwest mountain town into a Bavarian Christmas village with the help of the reluctant single dad architect who reminds her of the value of community.
THE CHRISTMAS PATISSERIE: Award-winning, TV Christmas French destination romance feature
Madeleine, a busy Las Vegas chef who hasn’t taken time for Christmas since her mother passed, flies to her father in Strasbourg France after he’s been in a fire in his Patisserie, where she falls for the B&B owner and rekindles her true passion for baking by embracing the French qualite de vie- quality of life.
ALMOST: one-hour, award-winning, multicultural dramedy
