Tobi Iverson-Halliday

Tobi Iverson is a Washington-based screenwriter developing large-scale dramatic films set in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska. Writing since 2006, she crafts bold fiction set during pivotal historical eras, weaving history, myth, and oral tradition into epic-scale, character-driven cinema. No one has ever made this film. 

She holds degrees in Anthropology and American Indian Studies from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her storytelling draws on years of research, lived cultural experience, and her own journey back to the culture she writes from. 

Her feature screenplay Wild Woman of the Woods gained national and international recognition within its first nine months. The project won the Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition, was named a Finalist at the Oscar-qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival, and received the Writers Lab Canada Bold Voice Award (2026). It has drawn industry interest across the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, Japan, and Iceland. 

She is currently developing a slate of films and series set across the Northwest Coast. Raised in Anacortes, Washington, Iverson is Tsimshian (Nisga’a) and Turtle Mountain Chippewa.