Victoria Augustine began her artistic life in the Syracuse Ballet Theatre. She studied English at Barnard College, then focused on screenwriting in graduate film school at Syracuse University. Victoria has been the Contest Director of the NYC Screenwriters Collective since 2011. The Sister Dance is her sixth screenplay, garnering the following awards under a previous title (The Audition): Quarterfinalist 2010 and 2011 Nicholl Fellowship, Quarterfinalist 2010 Austin Film Festival, Quarterfinalist 2011 Slamdance Screenwriting Contest. Currently, she is adapting Ignorance: How It Drives Science, an Oxford University Press publication by a Columbia University neuroscientist into a dramatic television series.