Rangeley grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, moving north for law school to Washington, D.C., where she still lives. While she pursued a law career, she began writing fiction, completing several women-focused novels. NO DEFENSE was published as a Wyatt Book for St. Martin’s Press. THINGS ARE GOING TO SLIDE was published as an e-book by Bev Editions, an indie e-book publisher. More recently, she turned to writing screenplays featuring women fighting unjust prosecutions, oil company executives intent on environmental destruction, and fascism.
Her first screenplay, REDWOOD SUMMER, an environmental drama, won the Sidewrite Script Competition at the Sidewalk Film Festival and was a finalist on the Athena List and for an Alfred P. Sloan Development Grant. REDWOOD SUMMER also was a semi-finalist for the Tirota Finish Line Social Impact Script Competition, The Golden Script Competition, the Stage 32 Feature Drama Fellowship, and in the top 15% for a Nicholl Fellowship. The script recently received an evaluation score of 8 on the Black List and reached the Second Round at the 2023 and 2024 Austin Film Festival.
EVERYBODY KNOWS, also an environmental drama, was selected for the Black List/Georgia List and as a finalist in the NYWIFT Writers Lab, funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, the Stowe Story Labs/Law Firm of Stacey A. Davis Fellowship, the Socially Relevant Film Festival Script Competition, the Whistleblower Summit Film Festival Script Competition, and the Stage 32 + Catalyst Studios Empowering Women Script Competition. EVERYBODY KNOWS reached the Second Round of consideration for the Sundance Development Track and was a winner of the Big Apple Film Festival (BAFF) Screenplay Competition.
The limited series A DANGEROUS, GLAMOROUS JOB is based on the epic true story of thirteen Army flight nurses who crash landed in Nazi-occupied Albania. The pilot was a semi-finalist for the Stowe Story Labs/Maven Fellowship, a finalist in the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition, the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards and a quarter-finalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition and The Writers Lab.The script reached the Second Round at the 2024 Austin Film Festival and was a quarter-finalist for the NYWIFT Writers Lab. Recently, Rangeley also finished a feature film script about the flight nurses’ dramatic escape.
The pilot WHEN DREW DIED — about the emotional and financial impact of one man’s death on the adult daughter he deserted sixteen years earlier and the widow and children who never knew she or her mother existed — was a semi-finalist for The NYWIFT Writers Lab and a Finalist for a Stowe Story Labs/Law Firm of Stacy A. Davis Fellowship. WHEN DREW DIED is on Coverfly’s the Red List.
She has worked in several areas of the law: prosecuting anti-trust violators, defending women unjustly accused of political crimes, representing immigrants seeking asylum, and, currently, teaches in civil advocacy and disability rights’ law clinics where she and the law students focus on social and economic justice litigation.