Ellis J. Kelsey

Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Ellis

ELLIS J. KELSEY is a screenwriter from the suburbs of Philadelphia who writes. He writes both high-concept genre material—as well as character-driven, truer-than-life historical dramas. He finds himself writing about finding meaning in our fragmented post-truth world. His hourlong TV pilot THE LADY WHO SLIPPED ON THE ICE has appeared on Coverfly’s Red List and was a finalist in Los Angeles 2022 Screenplay Awards. He lives in Los Angeles and is working on his debut short film which parodies shows like BLACK MIRROR. He has a two year-old beagle named Vern who runs his life.

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THE LADY WHO SLIPPED ON THE ICE Thriller It’s 1906 New York City—the heyday of investigative journalism, and McClure’s Magazine has tasked Willa Cather, an idealistic young writer from the prairies of Pittsburg, with profiling the messianic leader of a growing religious fringe group. To get the scoop, Willa must infiltrate the ranks of one of America’s most insidious and little-known cults as the line between faith and science blurs.
CRUDE Horror Logline: Workers on an underperforming oil rig in the North Sea fish something strange out of a drill pipe, an omen from the deep. Soon a mysterious force begins to wreak havoc on the crew-members, forcing them to face Mother Nature or suffer the consequences of greed.
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK Family ⋄ Comedy A loud-mouthed shock jock gets more than he bargained for when he switches bodies with his team’s struggling quarterback just days before the Super Bowl. To break the curse, they’ll need to repair each other’s strained relationships and discover the true meaning of fatherhood. Think FREAKY FRIDAY meets THE GAME PLAN with a little 17 AGAIN edge.