SCOTT CURTIS/TV+ FILM WRITER

WRITER

WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION VETERANS WRITING PROJECT

Fellow/teaching assistant.  (2021 – present)

Three-time selectee for competitive mentored training to create content and develop episodic TV/pilots, including pro actor readings.

TELEVISION CONSULTANT

Consultant to acclaimed working showrunner for a prospective FBI-related series. (2023)

VETERANS IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT AT&T MEDIA FELLOW

Selectee for competitive mentored fellowship to create digital short-form content; final project a “Best in Class.” (2021)

SINALOA CITY

Original co-written TV pilot with journalist-screenwriter Phoebe Eaton

• Finalist-Winner: TrackingB TV Script Competition 2022

• Shortlisted for American Zoetrope Screenplay Award 2021
  
  
  
  

THE LIFE

Original co-written TV pilot/tie-in book with journalist-screenwriter Phoebe Eaton. 

45TH PARALLEL

Original co-written pilot with journalist-screenwriter Phoebe Eaton.

• Finalist 2023 Harvardwood Writers Competition

• Quarterfinalist 2022 Big Break (original 1hr. drama).

THE FLIP

(short-film script)

• Quarterfinalist 2021 Austin Film Festival

• Quarterfinalist 2020 Script Lab Screenplay Contest (top 8% of 13,000 entrants).

AFFILIATIONS

• Veterans in Media & Entertainment

• 2020 Writing Workshop for Military Veterans via Long Island University’s TV Writers Studio

• Disabled Veterans Association (classified 100% disabled by the Veterans Administration)

PHOEBE EATON/CO-WRITER

A multi-award-winning 2021 Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, PHOEBE EATON is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Air Mail, GQ (UK), the New York Observer, the New York Post, Harper’s Bazaar, the Daily Beast et al., also appearing in the Guardian/Saturday Telegraph/Observer magazines.  

Awards and honors: Lately, Eaton is a 2022 TrackingB TV Pilot finalist-winner and a 2023 Harvardwood Writers Competition finalist (co-writer Scott Curtis), also shortlisted for 2021’s Zoetrope Screenplay Award; a 2020-23 Jeff Sagansky TV Writing Program/Harvardwood Features Program selectee; a 2019 WGA East Writers Room finalist, a 2018 Imagine Impact Content Accelerator finalist (top 1% of 4,000), and 2018 semifinalist for the 21st Century Fox Writers Lab. 2020 Front Page Award/Investigative Reporting three 2021-21 L.A. Press Club Nat’l Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for series featuring rare interviews with the Bros. Weinstein.

Also an organized-crime expert, Eaton exclusively interviewed the family of El Chapo at his hometown hideout deep in the Sierra Madre for Kindle Single “In the Thrall of the Mountain King,” excerpted by the New York Post/No. 1 Organized Crime its first week out. She won Mexico’s International Journalism Award in 2021 (Mexico’s highest honor) and a 2017 NY Press Club Award for reporting in Sinaloa/Guerrero states. U.S.-Japan Foundation media fellow (interviewed Tokyo detectives/yakuza). National Associaton of Hispanic Journalists. Trained for being kidnapped/taken hostage and in reporting during riots/civil unrest by Vice Media and a Steven Sotloff 2Lives Hostile Environments (HEFAT) Scholarship. Extensive international work/travel in very thin-ice places.

A member of New York’s Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, Eaton has seen work appear in multiple Smith & Kraus and Applause Books Best Monologues annuals. Other highlights: 2017 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation playwright fellow; 2028-19 ScreenCraft Stage Play Award finalist, 2017-18 Woodward-Newman Drama Award finalist, 2019 Austin Film Festival Stage Play Award and Stanley Drama Award short lists. Her scripts have been developed via the Writers Guild Foundation L.A., Dramatists Guild, Kennedy Center, Naked Angels, LAMA, and Breakthrough Los Angeles. B.A. English, University of Chicago.