Eliana Pipes is a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker based in her home town of Los Angeles. In television she was on the writing staff of seasons one and two of SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR. 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); SÍ SE PUEDE (commissioned world premiere Center Theatre Group); HOOPS (commissioned world premiere Milwaukee Chamber Theater, also produced with Company One and Boston Playwright’s Theater). Her plays are published with Concord Samuel French.
Her writing awards include the Alliance Kendeda Prize, Kennedy Center ACTF Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award and Ken Ludwig Scholarship, The Leah Ryan Fund Prize, Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latine Playwright Award, UC San Diego Floyd Gaffney National Playwriting Competition. Her work has been in development through the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, The Playwright's Realm Scratchpad Series, New Harmony Project Residency, National New Play Network MFA Playwright's Workshop, Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, The Fire This Time Festival, South Coast Rep Pacific Playwright’s Festival, and more.
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 short films have screened at Outfest LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival, NALIP Media Summit Showcase, LA Shorts, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, Animaze Montreal, Micheaux and more. As a screenwriter she was selected for the FX Imaginar TV Incubator with FX, Film Independent, and NALIP, and the Orchard Project Episodic Lab. BA English Literature Columbia University, MFA Playwriting Boston University.
Contact
Theater:
Michael Finkle • (mfinkle@wmeagency.com)
Luke Virkstis • (lvirkstis@wmeagency.com)
Television:
Daniela Federman • (dfederman@wmeagency.com)
Management:
Julia Mok • (jmok@anonymouscontent.com)
Press
Broadwayworld: Eliana Pipes Recent News
The Oscar’s YouTube: Gold Women’s Fellow - Eliana Pipes
Variety: Gold Rising, with Academy COO Christine Simmons and Eliana Pipes
Hollywood Reporter: Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig Help Fete Academy Women’s Initiative Grant Recipient