Merch Girl

FOLLOW MARGOT,A 26-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHOSE CURATED LIFE
UNRAVELS AFTER THE SUDDEN LOSS OF HER FATHER. IN A MOMENT OF GRIEF AND IMPULSE, SHE JOINS HER BEST FRIEND’S PUNK BAND ON TOUR AS THEIR MERCH GIRL. ON THE ROAD, MARGOT DISCOVERS A STRANGE NEW WORLD OF LATE-NIGHT DRIVES, SMALL CLUBS, AND THE MESSY, CHAOTIC FAMILY MADE ON TOUR.

  • Aubree E. C. Miller
    Writer
    Beer City: San Diego
  • Project Type:
    Television Script
  • Number of Pages:
    32
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Aubree E. C. Miller

Aubree Miller is a writer drawn to stories about music, identity, and the people we become when everything falls apart.

With roots in creative and music-driven communities, her work explores grief, reinvention, and the strange families we build along the way.

Merch Girl reflects a personal connection to both loss and the world of independent touring — a story about what happens when you leave your life behind and find yourself somewhere in between who you were and who you’re becoming.

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Writer Statement

Merch Girl is deeply personal to me.

I had spent years on tour with different bands — it was a world I knew well, and one where I always felt a sense of belonging. When I lost my dad, that world became something else entirely. It became a place I could go when everything in my life felt unrecognizable.

In the aftermath of that loss, I went back on the road — not because I had a plan, but because it was the only place that still felt like home.

That experience became the foundation for this story.

The touring world is chaotic, intimate, and constantly in motion. It strips away routine and forces honesty. There’s nowhere to hide — not from other people, and not from yourself. But in that space, I found something unexpected: connection, perspective, and pieces of myself I thought I had lost.

Margot’s journey is rooted in that same truth. She doesn’t join the band to chase music — she joins because she’s untethered, and the only thing that makes sense is to keep moving.

At its core, Merch Girl is about grief, identity, and the strange ways we find our way back to ourselves. It’s about found family, and the people who show up when everything else falls apart.

Sometimes healing doesn’t come from having answers.

Sometimes it comes from going back to the place that feels like home — even if it’s a van on the road.