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 Nazis during World War II.
Her first screenplay, REDWOOD SUMMER, won the Sidewrite Script Competition at the Sidewalk Film Festival, and was a finalist for an Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant and on the Athena List, and a semi-finalist for the Tirota Finish Line Social Impact Script Competition, The Golden Script Competition, and the Stage 32 Feature Drama Fellowship.
Rangeley has written several other feature screenplays. EVERYBODY KNOWS, also an environmental drama, was selected as a finalist in the Socially Relevant Film Festival Script Competition, the Stage 32 + Catalyst Studios Empowering Women Script Competition, and reached the second round of consideration for the Sundance Development Track. The script also was a finalist for the NYWIFT Writers Lab, funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, a semi-finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards and the 2020 Dallas International Film Festival’s (DIFF) Broaden Your Horizons Competition, and a winner of the Big Apple Film Festival (BAFF) Screenplay Competition.
She is currently working on a World War II limited series, A DANGEROUS, GLAMOROUS JOB, 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, and a finalist in the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition, the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards and was a quarter-finalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition.
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 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 teaching in civil advocacy and disability rights’ law clinics where she and the law students focus on social and economic justice litigation.