Creator of The French Broad Revival - A Prestige Drama Series

Angela Savidge began her Hollywood career on the Universal Pictures lot, working alongside producer Dino De Laurentiis — eventually serving as on-location Executive Producer’s Assistant on Hannibal (2001, Dir. Ridley Scott, Florence, Italy). When she once asked De Laurentiis for career advice, he paused and said with characteristic conviction: “If you want to really make it in this industry — and be happy — you must be a writer.” Those words became a compass. After stepping away from Hollywood to build a life in the mountains of Western North Carolina, she spent the next two decades studying the craft of screenwriting and honing her voice.

On September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville. Angela was there. Power and clean water were cut for weeks; hundreds of lives were lost. During that time, her husband was hospitalized in critical condition — unrelated to the storm — and for four weeks she lived inside a hospital operating under Code Triage, witnessing the exhaustion, compassion, and quiet heroism of ordinary people holding everything together. (Her husband has since made a full recovery.) The French Broad Revival was born from that experience — from grief and gratitude, and from the haunting beauty of a community learning to rebuild.

She holds a degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. A woman over 50 who grew up in the rural South, she has deep personal roots in every community this series represents — Appalachian, Southern Black churches, LGBTQ arts, and Cherokee culture — not as a researcher, but as a neighbor, a friend, and a witness across a lifetime of living in and loving this corner of the American South.