Talent Guide

Grace Rowe

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2002

Bio

Grace Rowe studied theater and film at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. Her solo show, The Grid Life, premiered in Los Angeles at The Complex Theater in Hollywood in 1999 which led to other performances at The HBO Workspace, The Women In Theater “Celebrate Women 2000 Festival”, and most recently at the Davidson/Valentini Theater in the Ed Gould Plaza in association with The 2001 Edge of the World Theater Festival. In addition to being one of the screenplays chosen for the 2002 IFP/West Screenwriter’s and Producer’s Lab, Seoul to America was recently coveted with the Best Screenplay Award for the 2002 Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) in New York, where a staged reading of the script was performed. Seoul to America was also one of four finalists in the CAPE (Coalition of Asian-Pacifics in Entertainment) 2001 Screenplay Contest hosted by FOX Entertainment, and was first runner-up for the 2002 Cynosure Screenplay Contest. In addition to screenwriting, Grace has also penned one-act and full-length plays, including: Five Dead Dogs, Just A New Year, Philander, and The B-Bop, B-Girl Cycle. She is currently working on two new feature-length screenplays and plans to produce and act in Seoul to America within the next year.

Current Project

Seoul to America (Narrative Feature)

Logline

Four stories of diverse young Asian American women struggling with issues of their identity, while the narrator, a fresh-off-the-boat punk rocker must decide whether she will move back to Seoul or stay in the land of the free.