Eda Benjakul.
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Stories built for the swipe.

For Eda, vertical microdramas are the natural evolution of her work — distilling complex emotional arcs into their most potent form, where every second must earn the next swipe.

Where YA and intergenerational stories reach audiences in the spaces they already inhabit. Eda writes with a director's craft and a producer's discipline, plus a specialty few others have: branded series for the woman over forty, and character-driven microdramas built for the platform.

She co-wrote three feature rom-coms with Isabel Drean — author of How to Write a Vertical in 10 Days — and trained in Drean's vertical writing incubator. Her son, Ethan Miller, has written for and been produced at DramaBox and aTwist; his My Crush Thinks I'm a Boy premiered to 17 million views its first week. Eda is looking to explore YA, rom-com, and thriller in the vertical space.

Shrinking Violet
Branded · Vertical Comedy Series
Available
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Shrinking Violet is an influencer-collaboration platform in the shape of a comedy. Built around a broke '80s child star on a perpetual quest for work, it brings rotating influencers together to create UGC-style content for brands inside her world — turning product integration into episodic, shoppable comedy. A meta, repeatable format made for the feed.

Read the Script (PDF) →

Sleeping With My Enemy: The Mob Boss' Son
Crime Romance
Available
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"She came for revenge. He raised the stakes." After her father is sent to prison, a gifted young card player enters the underground poker world to take down the man responsible — only to fall for the mob boss's son.

10 Episodes · Read the Script (PDF) →

Smashed By My Best Friend's Rival
Tennis Rom-Com
Available
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Pre-med Lila swore she'd never fall for players — until a forbidden moment with her best friend's rival becomes a secret she can't hide. Torn between loyalty and the man who makes her lose control, she's up against a world that could cost her everything. In a game where love means nothing, will she go for the smash?

10 Episodes · Read the Script (PDF) →

Queen-agers
Branded Comedy · Women 40+
Available
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Women 49+ represents over 30% of the U.S. population and commands over $15 trillion in spending power. These are not women on the sidelines; they’re the engine behind culture, commerce, and reinvention.

Queen-agers brings the soap opera back—this time as a meta comedy built for branded storytelling. Three Beverly Hills ex-wives blow up their second acts and start over at fifty—with attitude, alliances, and zero apologies. In every episode, the characters weave "Brought to you by…" product promotions directly into the drama, turning brand callouts into plot twists, punchlines, rivalries, and cliffhangers.

Adapted from Ex-Wives of Beverly Hills · Built for P&G / Olay · Teaser available

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I Bought My Cancelled Classmate
Class-Reversal Romance
Available
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Once mocked as the maid’s daughter, Maya Hall is now the secret billionaire behind a $120 billion tech empire. When she buys the collapsing company of Theo Reyes—the golden boy who once saved her life, then helped destroy it—his family mistakes her for the help all over again. Now, with cancelled Theo begging her to become his handler, Maya must decide what to do with the man she owns: save him—or ruin him.

First 10 Episodes · Read the Script (PDF) →

Let's talk verticals.

Available for directing and writing assignments or to pitch new concepts. Tell me what you want to build and let's vertical.

eda.benjakul@gmail.com →

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