Biography

Eliana Pipes is a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker based in her hometown of Los Angeles. She wrote on season one of the spinoff Spartacus: House of Ashur with Starz/Lionsgate. As a filmmaker she's been awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women through AMPAS, the WAVE Grant from Wavelength Productions and the Outfest x Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant. She is a member of the Sundance Institute Latine Collab Scholarship, has been a finalist for the Humanitas Angell Comedy College Prize, and was selected for the Orchard Project's Episodic Lab.

Her plays include Bite Me (world premiere off-Broadway WP Theater & Colt Coeur, published by Concord Samuel French); Dream Hou$e (world premiere co-production Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage, published by Concord Samuel French); Hoops (world premiere commission Milwaukee Chamber Theater, produced by Company One). She holds commissions from Two River Theater and South Coast Repertory. Her work has been developed or presented at the New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, Playwright's Realm Scratchpad Series, South Coast Repertory Pacific Playwright's Festival, NNPN National New Play Showcase, Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, Fire This Time Festival, and Drama League DirectorFest. Her writing awards include the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Alliance Kendeda Prize, Leah Ryan Prize, KCACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, National Latine Playwrights Award, and UCSD Floyd Gaffney National Playwriting Competition on the African American Experience.

She's a board member for the creative empowerment nonprofit YoungStorytellers, and a 4th grade alum of the YoungStorytellers Script to Stage Program. She also founded a chapter of YoungStorytellers in Harlem and spent two years leading the program that brought her to writing as a young person. BA English Literature Columbia University, MFA Playwriting Boston University.

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