writer ○ filmmaker ○ performer

Eliana
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Eliana Pipes is a writer, filmmaker, and performer based in her home town of Los Angeles. In television she was a writer on season one of the historical drama SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR with Starz and Lionsgate Television. Her plays include BITE ME (world premiere co-production Off Broadway WP Theater and Colt Coeur); DREAM HOU$E (world premiere co-production Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage, published by Concord Samuel French); HOOPS (commissioned, world premiere Milwaukee Chamber Theater); LORENA: a Tabloid Epic (New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, The Playwright's Realm Scratchpad Series); COWBOY AND THE MOON (Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, NNPN MFA Playwright's Workshop); UNFUCKWITHABLE (Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, Drama League DirectorFest); STAND AND WAIT (The Fire This Time Festival) and more. She holds commissions from Two River Theater and South Coast Repertory, and she’s a member of the 2023 Boston Court Playwright’s Group. Her writing awards include the Alliance Kendeda Prize, KCACTF Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, KCACTF Ken Ludwig Scholarship, Leah Ryan Fund Prize for Emerging Women Writers, Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latine Playwright Award, UCSD Floyd Gaffney National Playwriting Competition on the African American Experience, and a four-time finalist selection for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference.  She made her professional debut as a performer in The Actor’s Gang Theater’s summer Shakespeare in the Park shows when she was 11 years old, and went on to become a national finalist for the August Wilson Monologue Competition. More recently, she performed at the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, TDF Performateria, and starred in the web-series Meet Me @ The Clinic which she also wrote and directed. As a filmmaker she was awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women through the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Sundance Latine Collab Scholarship, the inaugural WAVE Grant through Wavelength Productions, and the inaugural Outfest x Colin Higgins Foundation Youth Filmmaker Award. Her animated short film ¡NAILS! was an official selection at the Outfest LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival, NALIP Media Summit Showcase, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, Animaze Montreal, Micheaux and more. As a screenwriter her pilot THE YOUNG LORDS was selected for the FX Imaginar TV Incubator with NALIP and Film Independent, and for the Orchard Project Episodic Lab, she sold a romantic comedy feature screenplay, and her feature screenplay FAUXRICUA was a finalist for the Humanitas Angell College Comedy Prize. She’s a board member for Young Storytellers, and a proud 4th grade alum of the Young Storytellers Script to Stage Program. BA English Columbia University, MFA Playwriting Boston University.