Italian-American. Her father is an immigrant from the Calabria region of Southern Italy.
New Jersey native.
She attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania for a year before switching to New Jersey's Montclair State University when she could no longer afford Lafayette's tuition fees.
I liked to think I had written "scripts" when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to LA.