Eliana Pipes is a writer, filmmaker, and performer based in her home town of Los Angeles. Her awards include the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women through AMPAS, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Leah Ryan Fund Prize, Kennedy Center ACTF Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, WAVE Grant through Wavelength Productions, Outfest x Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant and more. Her plays include DREAM HOU$E (world premiere co-production with the Alliance, Long Wharf Theater, and Baltimore Center Stage, published at Concord Samuel French), BITE ME (South Coast Repertory PPF, NNPN National New Play Showcase), UNFUCKWITHABLE (Old Globe New Voices, Drama League DirectorFest), LORENA: A TABLOID EPIC (New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, Playwright's Realm Scratchpad). As a screenwriter she developed a romantic comedy feature for Foton Pictures and Naîm Media Group, and her feature screenplay Fauxricua was a finalist for the Humanitas Angell College Comedy Prize. She's the writer/director of the animated short film ¡NAILS! which premiered at Outfest and screened at the NALIP Media Summit, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, and more. Representation at WME and Anonymous Content Management. BA English Literature Columbia University, MFA Playwriting Boston University. More at www.elianapipes.com.