Austen University is a modern college campus where all of Jane Austen’s heroines meet, become friends and roommates, and help each other through messy romantic entanglements!

This project has the fast-paced wit that made Gilmore Girls a sensation, but it begins with characters that have already been adored for generations.

This show is created and written by women, for women, with season one fully written and seasons two -five mapped out. We are raising the funds to film part one of the pilot episode this summer, and if we meet certain stretch goals we can film the entire pilot that will be around 40-60 minutes long.

Imagine if…

• Emma Woodhouse–campus queen–was trying to run Lizzy Bennet’s love life.
• Cathy Morland–gothic bookworm–teamed up with Marianne Dashwood–bohemian artist–to create campus plays that everyone acts in!
• the Dashwood sisters, recently impoverished, learn to adjust to life in crappy campus housing.
• swoon-worthy Professor Christopher Brandon was teaching poetry
• Rick Wentworth, freshly out of the navy, took a job teaching at AU with no idea that his former fiancé is now a student there.
• a bromance was brewing between not just Liam Darcy and Charles Bingley, but all of Austen’s timeless men: Academics Brandon, Knightley, and Wentworth, and laid-back flirts like Henry Tilney and Emmet Bertram (They may or may not form a bros club that secretly goes out for cupcakes).
• Mrs. Jennings was a sassy, Southern, sorority house mother who knows all the college gossip.
• Catherine de Bourgh was Dean of the Humanities department with the most dedicated and annoying TA, Winston Collins.

True to the books

We get it, when a new show or movie comes out that’s based on your favorite book, it can be hard to not be critical.

We’ve worked diligently to keep the characters true to who they are and hit the plot points that take place, just having a modern take to help bring it to new audiences.

We want to be able to watch shows we are interested in without having to worry about traumatizing our children or hiding from them by watching in a closet!

As mom’s of young kids we are sensitive to the things that their little eyes see, and we want to create this show that we not only want to watch ourselves, but we also don’t have to worry about who walks in while we enjoy it.

Written in a fast paced style, similar to Gilmore Girls, we know that you will enjoy it too!

To support the filmmakers of Austen University, visit their Seed&Spark crowdfunding campaign at https://seedandspark.com/fund/austen-university#story