bloody noses
What’s the cost of winning? After the assault of one of their own, three soccer players are forced to confront the dark realities of being female college athletes in the American University System while also just trying to be young women in a world that would rather them be machines.
Matilda Corley Schulman is a former NCAA D1 Equestrian (yes, she’s a horse girl) now writer/actor living in Los Angeles who finds herself sharing stories made up of one part rebellion, one part heartbreak, and a little bit of magic. As she likes to say, she is a writer of westerns in every different font and is most excited to keep writing stories that give a voice to women that have been told to quiet down too many times — and maybe in the process, make us all feel a bit less alone. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley (a transfer from Oklahoma State University) and an MFA from USC. Her plays, pilots, and features have been recognized by the O’Neill, Stowe, AFF, Coverfly, Stage 32, and more. She was also named to Coverfly x Tracking Board’s Next List 2024. Her modern western LARK has been named,Finalist Outstanding Screenplays Features ’25, Semifinalist Austin Film Festival ’24, Grand Jury Prize Feature Richmond International Film Festival, Top 5 Finalist Manchester Film Festival ’24. And her pilot BLOODY NOSES (based on the play of the same name) was a chosen participant in STOWE STORY LABS’ CONNEMARA WRITERS RETREAT ’24.
Founding Co-Artistic Director of the Rogue Machine. Currently, directing The Fantasticks at The Ruskin Group Theatre. World Premieres: Painted Ponies by Ian McRae, Hostage by Michelle Kohlos Brooks, Family Riots by Gideon Jeph Wabvuta, In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez, Nice Things by Vince Melocchi, Dirty Filthy Love Story by Rob Mersola, Razorback by John Pollono, Church & State by Jason Odell Williams. American PremiereDaytona by Oliver Cotton. LA Premieres; Smart Love by Brian Letscher, Bhutan by Daisy Foote, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, Falling by Deanna Jent, New Jerusalem by David Ives, Albee’s A Delicate Balance and Mamet’s Speed the Plow. PRT, Odyssey, WCJT: Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams, Miller’s All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, & Broken Glass, Odets’ Rocket to the Moon, Awake & Sing!, & Williams’, Orpheus Descending -LADCC Direction. For the Chance Theater Seminar by Teresa Rebeck & Sweat by Lynn Nottage. For Ophelia’s Jump, Measure for Measure & Helvetica by Katie Coleman. Elina was the first female recipient of the LADCC Career Achievement in Directing Award.