EMIlY IS

A MAGNET FOR MIRACLES

A MIRACULOUS MIDLIFE COMEDY SERIES

The universe has granted miraculous powers to the least qualified woman in L.A. It may soon come to regret it.

Emily, a broke, menopausal, out-of-work actress, single mom, and lovable disaster, is granted miraculous powers by the universe. She quickly declares herself a miracle maker and begins monetizing a gift she barely understands. Now the least qualified woman imaginable must avoid making her already disastrous life worse while facing the one miracle she can’t manifest: belief in herself.

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ABOUT THE SERIES

EMILY IS A MAGNET
FOR MIRACLES

This project is an independently produced short-form vertical series, lauching on Instagram with plans to develop it as a larger television project. Told through micro-episodes, the first season follows the first day of Emily’s new life as a miracle maker: an unbelievably ordinary day that becomes either the most miraculous disaster or the most disastrous miracle of her life, depending on how you look at it.

MEET THE TEAM

SYNOPSIS

FOR YEARS EMILY HAS TRIED TO MANIFEST A BETTER LIFE.

She reads the books, fills out the journals, listens to the podcasts, repeats the mantras, and makes the vision boards.

Literally nothing has worked.

Then something magical happens. In a stunning lapse of judgment it will soon come to regret, the universe grants Emily the power to create miracles.

More importantly, receiving a spiritual gift does not inspire a spiritual awakening.

Emily remains exactly the same person she was before: broke, overwhelmed, impulsive, spiritually bankrupt, desperate to be liked, and deeply committed to appearing like a good person while behaving in increasingly morally questionable ways.

Within hours, Emily declares herself a miracle maker and begins monetizing her miracles on Instagram.

People bring her their problems, their money, and their faith. Her miracle-making becomes an Instagram phenomenon, and her followers become an expanding group of believers that, for legal purposes, is definitely not a cult.

Now a woman who cannot manage her own life must learn how to use an extraordinary power, contend with a rapidly growing audience, and survive the same disastrous existence she had before any of this happened.

The universe has given Emily undeniable proof that it believes in her. Strangers begin believing in her too. But the wild ride only distracts her from the journey she needs most: discovering that self-worth and real power have nothing to do with miracles.

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WHY THIS STORY

MIDLIFE WOMEN ON SCREEN

Women in our fifties rarely see ourselves reflected in film and television. At the very moment our lives are becoming more complicated, more precarious, and frankly, more interesting, we’re largely disappearing from the screen.

Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles puts one of these women at the center of the story: a woman performing adulthood, parenthood, and success while privately having no idea how to hold any of it together.

This magical comedy explores what happens when the universe bets on a woman who gave up on herself years ago.

WHO IT’S ABOUT

MEET EMILY WILDER

Emily Wilder is a menopausal single mother living on the edge of survival. Once a working actress, she hasn’t worked in years. She now gets by on unemployment, food stamps, dwindling residual checks, and selling off pieces of her former life on Poshmark and OfferUp.

Her life is one big performance: adulthood, parenthood, success. Her social media presence is the best performance of her career. Inside the frame: health, wellness, gratitude, alignment.

Just outside the frame, she’s vaping, popping pills, having sex with randos on Feeld, shoplifting from Erewhon and CVS, pillaging fruit from neighborhood trees, inventing new identities to qualify for focus groups, getting dropped by her agent, getting kicked out of SAG for not paying her dues, and working out to government hold music while fighting for her unemployment and food stamps.

Emily is a people-pleasing, lovable disaster, deeply committed to appearing like a good person while behaving in increasingly morally questionable ways. Spiritually bankrupt, she believes deeply in the universe, mostly as a cosmic cleanup service for disasters of her own making.

Raising two teenagers alone and approaching an empty nest, Emily feels herself disappearing from the life she once imagined, with absolutely no idea who she is or what comes next.

She has spent years trying to manifest a better life without becoming a better person.

Then, in a stunning lapse of judgment it will soon come to regret, the universe grants Emily the power to create actual miracles.

The miracles give her money, purpose, and something even more intoxicating: an audience. But extraordinary powers come with actual responsibility, and Emily must somehow grow into the person everyone else believes she is.

The miracles make her visible, sought after, even revered. But the attention, success, adoration, and miraculous power are only a distraction from the harder truth: miracle maker or not, Emily still has to learn to value herself.

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WHERE YOUR CONTRIBUTION GOES

Your support helps cover the real costs of making the first season, including:

  • CAST AND CREW

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  • SOUND

  • LOCATIONS, PERMITS

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  • CRAFT SERVICES

  • EDITING

  • POST PRODUCTION

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LEVEL 1
MANIFESTATION
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$25-$500

3% Cover the Fee

By contributing, you acknowledge that your payment is reward-based support for the independently produced Instagram series Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles. It is not a charitable donation, investment, loan, or purchase of ownership. You receive no ownership, copyright, equity, profit participation, producing authority, creative control, approval rights, or rights in any current or future version of the series. Rewards are subject to availability, production needs, fulfillment terms, and applicable agreements. Contribution is nonrefundable. See full terms.

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By contributing, you acknowledge that your payment is reward-based support for the independently produced Instagram series Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles. It is not a charitable donation, investment, loan, or purchase of ownership. You receive no ownership, copyright, equity, profit participation, producing authority, creative control, approval rights, or rights in any current or future version of the series. Rewards are subject to availability, production needs, fulfillment terms, and applicable agreements. Contribution is nonrefundable. See full terms.

Important Contribution Information

Contributions are reward-based support for the independently produced Instagram series Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles. They are not charitable donations or investments and do not provide ownership, profit participation, producing authority, creative control, or rights in any current or future version of the series. Contributions are nonrefundable except as stated in the full Terms. Please read the full Terms of Contributing before making a contribution.

THE TEAM MANIFESTING

EMILY IS A
MAGNET FOR MIRACLES

EMILY WAGNER
CREATED BY, DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER, ACTRESS

“I’ve spent most of my life performing. As an actress, obviously. But also performing adulthood, motherhood, success, and the idea that everything is going really well. And I know I’m not the only woman doing it.

Women in midlife rarely see ourselves reflected in film and television. At the very moment our lives are becoming more complicated, more precarious, and frankly, more interesting, we’re largely disappearing from the screen.

So I set out to create the kind of series I wanted to see.

EMILY IS A MAGNET FOR MIRACLES is about a woman who appears to have her life together while privately feeling completely lost, with no idea what comes next.”

Emily Wagner is an actress, writer, director, producer, and independent filmmaker who has been creating her own work since the beginning of her career.

Emily co-wrote and starred in Blah Blah Blah with Julie Delpy. Directed by Delpy, the short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen at Toronto, Telluride, and festivals worldwide. It marked the beginning of a long creative collaboration between the two women.

Emily and Delpy later created and starred in Looking for Jimmy, an experimental independent feature shot continuously over twenty-four hours on the streets of Los Angeles. Looking for Jimmy premiered at AFI Fest and continued through an international festival and theatrical run.

Emily has starred in three feature films that premiered at Sundance. She starred in The Talent Given Us, written and directed by her brother, filmmaker Andrew Wagner. The daring, genre-bending film cast Emily, her sisters, and their parents as versions of themselves, pushing the line between documentary and fiction until it nearly disappeared. The film won the Jury Prize at CineVegas and Best First Feature at the Traverse City Film Festival.

She returned to Sundance as the female lead in Chronic Town, starring alongside JR Bourne, Garry Marshall, Paul Dooley, and Lin Shaye. She returned to Sundance again, starring in Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York, opposite Delpy and Chris Rock, marking her third feature-film premiere at Sundance and another chapter in her decades-long collaboration with Delpy.

On television, Emily played paramedic Doris Pickman throughout the entire fifteen-season run of ER. Her other screen work includes Todd Phillips’s Due Date, opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, as well as Criminal Minds, Judging Amy, Liza on Demand, and Netflix’s On the Verge, which reunited her with Delpy.

Long before original digital series became commonplace, Emily created Motherhoodlum, one of the first original comedy series made for YouTube. Across twenty episodes, she wrote, directed, produced, edited, and performed in the series, which offered an honest, unruly, and very funny look at the realities of new motherhood. It was picked up by Manaday and developed into a pilot. It also continued a thread that has run through all of Emily’s work: women trying to hold everything together while life refuses to cooperate.

Emily has always believed in self-agency as an actor, writer, and director. From independent shorts and Sundance films to an early YouTube comedy series, she has spent her career creating the roles and stories she wanted to see rather than waiting for someone else to make them.

Her newest series, Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles, brings all of that history together. Emily created, wrote, directs, produces, and stars in the magical comedy about a broke, menopausal, out-of-work actress and single mother whose life is one enormous performance: adulthood, parenthood, success, and the appearance that everything is going beautifully.

MEET THE REST OF THE CAST

  • Clayton Farris

    CLAYTON FARRIS

    SIMON

    Clayton Farris is an actor, writer, filmmaker, and content creator with a rare gift for finding the exact point where ordinary human discomfort becomes painfully, brilliantly funny.

    He recently appeared as Terry in the acclaimed Warner Bros. film Weapons, and his credits include MaXXXine, The Pitt, The Morning Show, Ratched, American Horror Story, and SEAL Team. He will next appear in Apple TV’s Cape Fear. IMDb

    Online, Clayton has built an enormous following with his sharply observed comedy about social anxiety, bad behavior, and the thousand tiny humiliations of being a person. His videos regularly reach millions of viewers, earning him the extremely accurate description “the Larry David of TikTok.” The Acting Podcast

    Clayton brings impeccable comic timing, real emotional depth, and the unnerving ability to make even the smallest moment feel both completely ridiculous and painfully recognizable.

  • Katie Walder

    KATIE WALDER

    CHLOE

    Katie’s most recent credits are playing Topher Grace's wife, the First Lady of Mars on FOR ALL MANKIND (APPLE TV) in Season 6 (airing in 2027), Luke Wilson’s ex wife in NO GOOD DEED (Netflix),
    a religious zealot pretending to be a doctor in STATION 19 (ABC), A Boss Bitch in SWAT (CBS), and an adorable Ad executive (LEAD) in A CHRISTMAS TO TREASURE (Lifetime). 

    Katie has been Series Regulars for multiple pilots/series, including SQUARE ROOTS (ABC), opposite Adhir Kalyan, BAD TEACHER (CBS) playing Ari Graynor’s best friend, and BILLY GLIMMER (HBO) playing the lead opposite Ben Stiller.

    Katie’s recurring roles include the sitcom ALEXA AND KATIE (NETFLIX), MAD MEN (AMC),  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (NBC) NEW GIRL (FOX), GILMORE GIRLS (CW).

    Katie’s extensive credits of guest star roles include HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (ABC)Alan Ball’s series HERE AND NOW (HBO), SCORPION (CBS), LETHAL WEAPON (FOX), KROLL SHOW (Comedy Central), GRIMM (NBC), THE MENTALIST (CBS), FRANKLIN & BASH (TNT), FAIRLY LEGAL (TNT), MAN UP (CBS), NTSF:SD:SUV (Comedy Central), SUPERNATURAL (CW), MAD LOVE (CBS), CHASE (NBC), THENEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE (CBS), THE GOOD WIFE (CBS), TRUST ME (TNT), RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (CBS), SAVING GRACE (TNT), HUSTLE (BBC), WITHOUT A TRACE (CBS), CSI: MIAMI (CBS), COLD CASE (CBS), CRACKING UP (FOX) and LAW & ORDER:SVU (NBC).

  • JERE BURNS

    JERE BURNS

    GARY

    Jere Burns is best known for his role as Wynn Duffy on the acclaimed FX series Justified and as Kirk Morris on the hit NBC comedy Dear John. He also starred opposite Rashida Jones in Angie Tribeca and was a series regular on Something So Right, Good Morning, Miami, Help Me Help You, Max Headroom, and Bob.

    His extensive television credits include Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Bates Motel, Dead to Me, Lucifer, Suits, Grey’s Anatomy, Hawaii Five-0, The Muppets, NCIS: Los Angeles, The King of Queens, Hill Street Blues, Murder, She Wrote, Psych, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, How to Get Away with Murder, All Rise, and Hulu’s Death and Other Details.

    His film work includes Greedy, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Life-Size, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, and Pixar’s Incredibles 2.

    Burns has also appeared on Broadway as Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray and in Elaine May’s After the Night and the Music. His stage work includes the title role in Don Juan at the New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as productions of True West, Egyptology, and The Scottish Play.

  • Sarah Jane Morris

    SARAH JANE MORRIS

    OLIVIA

    Sarah Jane Morris is an actor and producer with an extensive career spanning more than two decades in film and television. Most recently, she appeared opposite Noah Wyle on the Emmy-winning series The Pitt as Janey Malloy, Dr. Robby’s former partner and the mother of Jake.

    Sarah starred for three seasons as Julia Walker on ABC’s acclaimed drama Brothers & Sisters. She also had major recurring roles as Special Agent E.J. Barrett on NCIS and Annie Callahan on NBC’s The Night Shift.

    Her wide-ranging television credits include High Potential, Mad Men, Felicity, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Castle, Chicago Med, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum P.I., and Truth Be Told. Her film work includes Seven Pounds, Crazy Heart, Coyote Ugly, and 6 Month Rule.

  • Ned Brower

    NED BROWER

    LEVI

    Ned Broweris an actor and musician currently appearing in his second season as Jesse Van Horn, the effortlessly cool, unflappable nurse on HBO Max’s Emmy-winning drama The Pitt.

    He first appeared on television as Elliott Sawyer on Dawson’s Creek, with additional credits including The Princess Diaries, Big Fat Liar, and Not Another Teen Movie.

    As the drummer and vocalist for Rooney, Brower recorded four studio albums, toured internationally, and appeared with the band on The O.C. He has since returned to original music with Bloodwerk, a new electronic project created with musician and composer John E. Low. He also leads the Marc Maron Blues Implosion and has created music for Maron’s comedy specials.

    Brower co-created the Fleetwood Mac musical comedy Don’t Stop!, in which he takes on the role of Mick Fleetwood.Description goes here

  • Fable Isaacson

    FABLE ISAACSON

    ALEXIS

    Fable Isaacson is an award-winning young actor and singer who has been performing since early childhood. She is currently double-majoring in Theatre and Musical Theatre at the prestigious Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), where her roles include Bev in Clybourne Park, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Joan in Punch. She previously starred as Jo March in Little Women and received an acting award at the Cal Poly Shakespeare Festival for her performance as Alice in Henry V. A remarkably gifted and versatile performer, Fable moves effortlessly between classical theatre, contemporary drama, and musical theatre.

  • MARLOWE OBST

    MARLOWE OBST

    ROMY

    Marlowe Obst made her television debut on on the comedy series Barely Famous. Most recently she played Lila in the Netflix series Nobody Wants This, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. Marlow is also a singer/songwriter.

  • Arlo Jackson

    ARLO JACKSON

    JAKE

    Arlo Jackson is a singer-songwriter and actor making his series debut in Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles. He is a vocal major at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has trained at SoCAPA and Interlochen. His debut EP is set for release this year. Arlo is composing the original score and main title theme for the series.

  • Lola Gloudini

    LOLA GLOUDINI

    MAXIME

    Lola Glaudini is an actor, writer, filmmaker, and director with an extensive career spanning more than three decades in film and television. She helped launch the hit series Criminal Minds as original cast member and fan favorite Elle Greenaway, starring throughout its first season and into the second. She also played undercover FBI agent Deborah Ciccerone-Waldrup in the landmark HBO series The Sopranos.

    Her substantial television credits include recurring and featured roles on Ray Donovan, The Expanse, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NYPD Blue, The Offer, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Monk, and ER. Her film work includes Blow, Invincible, Jack Goes Boating, That Awkward Moment, and Your Friends & Neighbors.

    Expanding her work behind the camera, Lola wrote and directed Mighty, starring Emmy winner Liza Colón-Zayas and Elizabeth Rodriguez. The film premiered at Cinequest and later screened at the Woodstock Film Festival. She recently directed the short film Tu Viens D’où.

  • Laura Schein

    Laura Schein

    STACY

    Laura Schein began her career at 13 in the first national tour of Ragtime. Her screen credits include guest star roles on 911: Lone Star, Masters of Sex, and Weeds; series regular on YouTube Originals’ Sing It!; and supporting roles in indie features Grizzly Night and the upcoming comedy What Now? alongside Eliza Coupe and Rhys Darby. She has also toured nationally opposite Jason Alexander.

    As a writer, Laura is a 2026 Dramatists Guild Fellow and recipient of the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award. She co-created the acclaimed musical Emojiland (New York Times Critics Pick, Richard Rodgers Award Finalist, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Off-Broadway Alliance Nominee), originating the role of Smize, and has written songs for Disney’s Mickey Saves Christmas, Paramount+’s Honor Society, and UglyDolls. Her new musical Miss Hysteria was selected for the 2026 Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals and was a 2025 Eugene O’Neill NMTC Finalist.

    A Chicago native and Magna Cum Laude graduate of Northwestern University, Laura is also a certified health coach and host of the functional medicine podcast What The Func?!

  • Shenika Travis

    SHENIKA TRAVIS

    CAPRI

    Shenika Travis is an American actress, singer, dancer, and arts advocate whose career spans television, film, theater, and commercial productions. Known for bringing warmth, authenticity, and emotional depth to her performances, she has appeared in projects for ABC, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Roku TV, and award-winning independent films showcased at film festivals. Her theatrical work includes (to name a few) acclaimed productions of For Colored Girls, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the award-winning Ruined at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, demonstrating a range that seamlessly transitions between drama and comedy.

VIEW THE REWARDS

  • $25 SUPPORTER

    Help us bring the first season of Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles to life. Every contribution goes directly toward production.

  • $50 FEATURED SUPPORTER

    Your name will appear in the Season One credits under Special Thanks, because this series genuinely would not exist without the people helping us make it!

  • $100 SIGNED SCRIPT

    Receive a signed copy of the Season One shooting script.

  • $150 PRIVATE DIGITAL SCREENING

    See the series before its public release with early access to a private digital screening of the completed first season.

  • $200 CAST AND CREW VIDEO THANK YOU

    Receive a personalized video thank-you from available members of the cast and crew.

  • $250 PRIVATE ZOOM WORKOUT WITH EMILY

    Train one-on-one with Emily in a private 60-minute workout.

  • $500 CHOOSE ONE PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH EMILY

    Acting Coaching or Actor Audit

    Bring an audition, scene, or acting-career question, review your headshots, marketing materials, and overall presentation as an actor.

    Private Aesthetic Consultation

    Bring your questions, goals, current routine, treatments you are considering, and anything that has left you confused or overwhelmed. Emily will help you sort through the noise and think strategically about what makes sense for you.

    The aesthetic consultation is educational and does not constitute medical advice.

  • $750 CREATIVE AUDIT WITH EMILY

    Bring Emily the idea, brand, business, project, or creative problem that has you completely stuck.

    During this private 60-minute session, Emily will help you identify what is getting in the way and clarify what you are trying to create.

  • $1,000 ACTOR GYM WITH EMILY

    A comprehensive private 75-minute session for actors who want to work. Bring material, prepare an audition, dig into a scene, review your headshots and marketing, ask career questions, or combine all of it into one focused Actor Gym.

  • $1,500 BECOME PART OF THE SHOW

    A character will be named after you, and you will receive an opportunity for a non-speaking walk-on or featured-background appearance, a private digital screening, and a Special Thanks credit.

    Character names, appearances, and footage remain subject to the needs of the story and production. Participation does not guarantee inclusion in the completed edit. Travel, lodging, transportation, and incidental expenses are not included.

  • $2,000 PRIVATE DJ NIGHT WITH DJ EM

    Emily comes to your home and DJs a private four-hour dance party

    You bring the people. Emily brings the music and turns the night into your own private rave.

    Los Angeles area only.

  • $2,500 CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE (LIMITED)

    Andrew Wagner Script Deep Dive

    One private 90-minute script consultation with Andrew Wagner.

    *LIMITED TO 4

    or

    Original Artwork by Emily

    Receive an original 8 × 11 work on paper. Artwork remains at the artist’s discretion.

  • $5,000 HONORARY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Receive an Honorary Executive Producer credit on the independently produced first Instagram season of Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles.

    This reward also includes:

    • Private digital screening

    • Signed Season One script

    • Special Thanks recognition

    • Invitation for two to a private screening or premiere, if one is held

    • Additional available project experiences finalized with the contributor

    *This is an honorary credit recognizing extraordinary support of the independently produced Instagram series. It does not provide ownership, authorship, employment, producing authority, compensation, repayment, profit participation, accounting, approval rights, creative control, or rights in any future version of the property.

    A separate written agreement is required.

  • $10,000 BRAND SPONSORSHIP

    A limited number of Presenting Episode Sponsorships are available.

    The designated episode will be introduced with:

    “This episode is brought to you by [BRAND].”

    The package includes:

    • Opening recognition with the approved brand name or logo

    • Recognition in the closing credits

    • Brand mention and tag in the episode caption

    • Required paid-partnership disclosures

    • One supporting Instagram Story

    • Limited category exclusivity for the designated episode

    • Permission to repost the published episode organically

    • Basic performance report after the agreed reporting period

    Product placement, scripted integration, additional social content, paid advertising rights, boosting, whitelisting, raw footage, alternate edits, and extended usage require separate negotiation.

    EMILY IS A MAGNET FOR MIRACLES and the production retain complete ownership and creative control. Sponsorship applies only to the independently produced social release and does not continue into any sale, adaptation, pickup, later season, or future version of the series.

    A separate sponsorship agreement is required.

OTHER WAYS TO HELP

In-Kind Support

Locations, equipment, wardrobe, beauty and wellness products, food, transportation, postproduction services, and other professional support may be useful.

Please contact the team before contributing goods or services so the production can confirm what is needed and agree to the terms in writing.

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If you are interested in joining the production, providing professional services, offering a location, or helping in another way, please get in touch and include a little information about yourself and how you would like to participate.

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