JUST ROOMMATES
A sapphic sitcom about a 'baby gay' from Kansas, who must learn to navigate the complicated and exciting lives of lesbians in the city.
FORMAT
8-Episode Comedy
Los Angeles, CA
SETTING
Springfield, MO
FILMED IN
Mak Ingemi
DIRECTOR / WRITER
Fall 2026
PILOT PRODUCTION
A queer sitcom about friendship, identity, and chosen family in Los Angeles, where a group of lesbians learn that growing up is optional but growing together is not.
Just Roommates follows Quinn, a "baby gay" newly arrived from Kansas, as she learns to navigate the complicated and exciting lives of lesbians in Los Angeles. The show discovers this new world in stride with the audience — no prior knowledge of the scene required.
The series sets out to tell sapphic stories without centering suffering. It's lightly inspired by events from writer-director Mak Ingemi's own life, offering a break from the realities many queer people face, without erasing them.
SYNOPSIS
“Let’s be honest, lesbians being hot has carried representation for long enough. The reality is, lesbians are funny. Genuinely funny. Our lives are chaotic, specific, and deeply entertaining in ways that have barely been explored on screen. We carry around fake d**** in backpacks. Our exes and current partners somehow overlap. We fall in love fast, move in faster, and build entire ecosystems out of friendship, resilience, and shared experience.”
WE’RE MAKING IT OURSELVES.
Just Roommates is an independently produced series, and we’re taking the first step ourselves.
We’re currently raising funds to produce our pilot, with the goal of continuing to independently fund Season 1. That means no waiting for a studio or network to give us permission to tell these stories. We’re building the show with our audience, our community, and the people who believe in it.
Every contribution helps us pay our cast and crew, bring the world of Just Roommates to life, and create more space for queer stories made by queer people.
Want to help us make it happen?
Support Just Roommates through our fiscal sponsor, BraveMaker.
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