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    Frankie Shaw aims to shine a light on a seldom-seen female perspective with 'SMILF'

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2017 6 minutes

    Frankie Shaw was 20 when she showed up outside the office of writer-director Katherine Dieckmann armed with a letter and an offering of bagels. And grit. Always some grit.

    After taking a semester off her junior year - a period in which she worked as a lobster fisherman in Maine - the Boston native found herself one credit shy of graduating from Barnard College in New York. Studying English literature, Shaw had ambitions to write her first script, so she propositioned Dieckmann, an associate professor in the MFA program at Columbia University, in the spring of '07 in hopes that she'd work with her in an independent study capacity. Dieckmann, as Shaw remembers it, initially said no.

    "So I wrote her this long letter begging her to take me on," says Shaw, now just shy of 31. "I just remember wanting it so badly and, I don't know, I guess I thought showing up with some bagels and

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