Once a devoted athlete striving for a chance at the Olympic trials, Danielle Iman is a former track and field sprinter who eventually ran into a crossroad, where her passion for visual storytelling took her in a new direction. After graduating from the University of Virginia where she majored in Spanish and Media Studies, Danielle moved to Atlanta, GA where she worked in post-production for Fox Sports South and as a freelance editor for TBS. Eventually, Danielle redirected her efforts into a passion that allows her to be the voice behind a prominent influence in our culture and society: screenwriting. 

Danielle is a graduate of the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television MFA program at USC where she was a Grillo-Marxuach Family Fellow and a selected participant in a Development Master class with Brian Grazer. She’s a 2019 Universal Writers Program Finalist, a 2018 Fox Writers Lab Finalist, a 2018 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, and has made the 2018 Young & Hungry List and Hit List. Danielle has worked as a Writers’ PA on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and a Writers’ Trainee on Apple drama series, Swagger. Danielle is currently a 2019 HBO Access Writers Fellow.

Drawn to nonconformists like herself, Danielle craves to see, on screen, unapologetic characters who embody multi-layered complexity. Raised by a single mother and always encouraged to march to the beat of her own drum, Danielle writes about rebels.