A Perfect Team: Heidi Nyburg & Kristin Tegtmeier Higgins - Ep #117

Heidi Nyburg

After a career in tech as a product manager for Netflix, Heidi pivoted to screenwriting
for television and film. A 2022 HUMANITAS finalist, & WIF top 10, Heidi’s writing focuses on female-driven dramas and dark comedies that explore themes of
motherhood, having/not having it all, and sometimes, murder. She’s won several
respected contests, has been featured on The Blacklist for pilots & has two scripts in Coverfly’s Top 1% of all time. She’s also a mother and a director, and those two things feel the same most of the time.

Kristin Tegtmeier Higgins
 
is an independent film producer having discovered a passion for making movies after growing up with her family’s rural movie theater business. She began to makefilms alongside raising a family and a successful career in enterprise software marketing in Silicon Valley.

Kristin studied screenwriting at UCLA and finally film production at San Francisco Film School. She has gone on to make multiple short films and now the narrative feature film, ClearMind, as well as directing and producing a feature documentary on the topic of women and ultra running, which is in post production.