TAART
TAART
Television (Half-hour)
· Comedy · 41 pages
Taart follows closeted-queer, 16-year-old, Amish anti-hero, Willa Stoltzfus, on her rite-of-passage Rumspringa. Crashing in a communal trailer in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she discovers the underground meth trade, feelings for her childhood bestie, and gender identity. BYOBonnet!
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ellis stump
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Accolade Highlights
Quarterfinalist,
Slamdance Screenplay Competition 2024
Quarterfinalist,
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program 2024
Quarterfinalist,
The Script Lab - TSL Free Screenplay Contest 2024
1 Writer
Los Angeles, CA
A gay disgrace to their Amish PA upbringing, Ellis is now a Columbia University MFA grad ('23), an award-winning Off-Broadway playwright, and the youngest, silliest full-time professor. She's currently in development on numerous pilots, shorts, and a feature. Ellis tells fish-out-of-water, coming-of-age dark comedies for fellow emotional Gen Z yearn...
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