How to Build a Life
HOW TO BUILD A LIFE is a half-hour comedy about a woman trying to renovate a fixer-upper...and her life!
HOW TO BUILD A LIFE is a half-hour comedy about a woman trying to renovate a fixer-upper...and her life!
After a bitter divorce, an aspiring home improvement expert returns to her midwestern hometown, buys a hundred year old mansion and begins the journey to refurbish the house… and her life. But starting over ain’t easy, especially with an evil codependent mother looking to be cared for, a dating pool full of old boyfriends and a dream house that’s turning into a nightmare.
Simbiat Hall sold PD-X, an hour-long drama centered on experimental policing, to CBS Television Studios in collaboration with Cloud Nine Productions showrunner Kevin Fox and director Rob Hardy. Simbi adapted the Bebe Campbell Moore novel SINGING IN THE COMEBACK CHOIR for producer Reuben Cannon in collaboration with Lifetime and director Debbie Allen. Simbi developed the half-hour comedy MIXED with Halle Berry for Lifetime and sold the feature script BRING IT! VEGAS DREAMS to Pilgrim Media.
Simbi’s comedy feature script LONG STORY SHORT made the Cannes Script List and her short film LONG STORY SHORT has been distributed worldwide and received awards from AFI Fest, The Aspen Comedy Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, SXSW and UrbanWorld. Simbi was also honored by the Los Angeles County Museum as part of their “Young Directors Night.”Simbi is an alum of the illustrious Almanack Screenwriters where she wrote the coming of age drama SUNDAY MORNING, which Cheryl Boone Isaacs (former A.M.P.A.S. president) is attached to EP. Simbi’s script THE ONE, a rom-com about a woman who falls in love with herself, was honored at the Aspen Comedy Fest as Best Comedy Feature. Simbi co-wrote & produced the variety special MAKE IT WORK for Women In Film and The CW featuring Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Garner, Kathryn Hahn, Kim Whitley and Alfre Woodard. Simbi was a staff producer at VH1/MTV Networks and has produced on a number of multi-camera live shows including the Oscars, Emmys and the MTV Movie Awards. Simbi was the segment producer/director on the Emmy nominated “Disney Parks’ Magical Christmas Celebration” for ABC. Simbi graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a double major from the Institute of Film & TV and the Dramatic Writing Program and is an alumna of AFI’s “Directing Workshop for Women” and “The Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship” at USC. Simbi Hall is a member of the WGA, West.
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