AND ALSO WITH YOU is a half-hour dramedy about a nice, Catholic church lady who comes out as bisexual in her 50s, and her lesbian daughter reluctantly helps her re-enter the dating scene as the oldest baby queer in Cleveland.

Dawn, a middle-aged midwestern gal who works in the parish hall of her local Catholic church, is finally ready to act on that pesky hunch she has that she wants to smooch ladies. In the pilot, Dawn comes out to her daughter Cara, who is considering moving back to Cleveland for her partner Rory’s job. However, Cara has a chip on her shoulder because she didn’t feel supported by Dawn when she came out as a teenager. Cara reluctantly helps her mom get ready for her first lady date with a silver vixen who’s the sponsor of a pierogi festival, but because Dawn still struggles with being out in public, she fumbles the date by calling her date her cousin in front of some church friends. Dawn’s internalized homophobia triggers Cara’s defenses, but Dawn shares that it was because she saw Cara come out and come into herself that helped her realize that homosexuality is not a sin, and she was able to accept her own feelings. This helps Cara realize that she wants to be the support she didn’t receive in high school, and the pilot ends with Cara and Rory deciding to move to Cleveland.

Each episode features Dawn navigating another facet of the queer experience with Cara’s reluctant help as she builds a new life in her hometown. Over the course of the series, Dawn will accidentally host a sex party, revamp her CCD curriculum, begin her first queer relationship (with an atheist!), and ultimately heal her relationship with her daughter by healing herself. AND ALSO WITH YOU is a heartfelt sitcom that shows there is always a new version of ourselves waiting to be born.  

We are a pioneering indie television series. Last summer, we ran our own six-week writers’ room to write five 30-minute episodes in addition to the pilot for a six episode season one. We crowdfunded on Seed & Spark to raise funds to pay the writers and received a Patrons Circle grant from Mark Duplass. We plan to shoot all six episodes at once, like a feature film, in the Cleveland area in the spring of 2027.