Ellis Cube

 

Ellis Cube is an award-winning screen and television writer that has worked in the entertainment industry since earning an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California in 1998. In 2012, Ellis left a post as the Senior Creative Executive at an animation company to write full-time. Ellis has since won the 2019 Writers for Writers Independent Author Fellowship with her middle-grade speculative fiction Shelby Sherman series. Ellis currently has a slipstream novella and several short stories on submission while developing her next book, a science-fiction invasion thriller.

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Ellis' scripts have also won and placed in several screenwriting and television competitions including making the top 15% of the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting, winning Script Pipeline's First Look Project in the Fantasy category, and landing in the Top 25 of the Tracking Board's Launch Pad feature competition. The ISA Network selected Ellis' first original TV pilot for a reading at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and her supernatural pilot made the second round of the Austin Film Festival writing competition in 2018.

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Regardless of the format, Ellis' fantasy and science-fiction stories explore the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary as her characters take on journeys of self-discovery where action, humor, and psychological twists abound.

 

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