Talent Guide

Eliana Pipes

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Imaginar TV Incubator for Fearless Latinx Creators 2024

Bio

Eliana Pipes is a playwright and screenwriter based in her hometown of Los Angeles. She was a staff writer on season one of Spartacus: House of Ashur with Starz/Lionsgate. As a filmmaker she’s been awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship through AMPAS, the Sundance Institute Latine Collab Scholarship, WAVE Grant and Outfest x Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Award. Her play Bite Me premiered Off Broadway with WP Theater and Colt Coeur, and Dream Hou$e premiered in a triple co-production across the east coast. Playwriting awards include the Alliance Kendeda Prize, KCACTF Steinberg Award and Leah Ryan Prize. More at www.elianapipes.com.

Current Project

The Young Lords

Logline

In 1969 East Harlem, young Black and Puerto Rican activists create the Young Lords Party, taking daring political action to change their community. Then they fell apart.