# Wayfarer Studios Sets Six For Coming-Of-Age Feature Drama ‘The Alchemy Of Being Okay’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/wayfarer-studios-sets-six-for-coming-of-age-feature-drama-the-alchemy-of-being-okay/
- Published: 2026-10-22T16:51:23+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T17:56:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/wayfarer-alchemy-of-being-okay-abby-elliott-1237170797/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film, Offbeat, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- Yasmeen Fletcher leads a new coming-of-age drama.
- Sarah Mokh makes her feature directorial debut.
- The story follows a teenager dealing with grief and family pressures.

## Summary

Wayfarer Studios, Familiar Stranger and Amanat Films are making The Alchemy of Being Okay, a coming-of-age drama led by Yasmeen Fletcher and featuring five other actors. The film marks Sarah Mokh’s feature directorial debut and follows a teenager whose hopes for a new life are unsettled by grief and family pressures.

Fletcher plays Nora, a 17-year-old in the Midwest who wants to leave for college in New York after a tragedy. Her mother, Amina, tries to hold the family together while her father, Bassam, faces personal struggles; Nora is also drawn between a classmate, a friend of her father’s and a teacher who once encouraged her writing. Mokh developed the screenplay through the 2024 Sundance Screenwriter’s Intensive and Artist Accelerator Fellowship, and Wayfarer Studios is financing the film.

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