Akela Cooper wrote M3GAN, directed by Gerard Johnstone and produced by Universal, Blumhouse and James Wan/Atomic Monster. The film was released in the U.S. in January 2023 and was both a critical and commercial success. Akela is also a credited writer on The Nun 2 for New Line/Atomic Monster and wrote the film Malignant, directed by James Wan, which was released in September 2021. In 2021 Akela was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Screenwriters to Watch.

On the TV side, Akela has written on such projects as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount +), Magic Order (Netflix), Steve DeKnight’s Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix), Marvel’s Luke Cage (Netflix), Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story (FX), and The Hundred (CW), among others.