Skye Emerson specializes in feature and television dramatic comedy screenplays. Her scripts converge between a little bit of levity and a great deal of heart.
FEATURE DRAMA
When guarded, yet brilliant astrophysicist Sally Ride joined the first astronaut class to include women, her fight to get to space seemed her greatest challenge, but Sally's mission to find the truth about the Challenger explosion, and her own identity, would soon threaten her foundation, and her future with NASA.
Based on True Events
FEATURE DRAMEDY
A spirited and earnest young girl growing up outside of a salt mine town in Utah hopes to follow her dreams and become the scientist hero her town needs. With a new best friend, the girls endure misadventures, leading to a baking competition which could be the catalyst in her dreams coming true, but a tragic accident and her resentful mother may derail her plans.
In Pre-production
Producer and Writer
INDIE FEATURE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
An art critic with an online following faces a night of torture at the hands of her protege…but is she a victim, or the perpetrator of a more deleterious crime?
In Post-production
Producer and Writer
Showcased Cannes 2024
SF QUEER FILM FEST World Premier 2024
FEATURE ROM-COM
When her best friend and business partner offers to throw professional and poised Sawyer Thomas a bachelorette trip, eternally engaged Sawyer envisions palm trees and Pina Coladas, not a weeklong stay at a rustic ranch in her small hometown of Huckleberry Creek, a place Sawyer never expected to return to.
Feature Assignment
Nine-Act Structure
Optioned by Rom Com Pictures
FEATURE ROM-COM
When a woman finds herself stuck inside a tiny holiday village she’ll have to learn to see the world from a new perspective and lean in to her heart, if she hopes to find her way back home.
FEATURE DRAMA
A cross between Friday Night Lights and The Atomic City Girls, When The Men Were Gone is a debut historical novel based on the true story of Tylene Wilson, a woman in 1940's Texas.
In 1944 Brownwood Texas, English teacher Tylene Wilson is popular and well-loved, but when World War II takes the life the head football coach, Tylene must take up the mantle as head coach, in spite of extreme opposition, in order to keep her students from enlisting and going off to war.
Feature Adaptation
Optioned by Writ Large
FEATURE COMEDY
An overly cautious guy takes his first big risk and enters a "Best Joke Ever" competition, but when his joke falls incredibly flat, a famous comedian takes him under her wing - which happens to lead to a night of car chases, animal theft, and general debauchery- as he works to find his inner entertainer.
Feature Assignment
Optioned
Co-Writer
FEATURE COMEDY
A&R Rep Assistant Joe Lyon is looking to sign THE band, the one that will finally land him a spot as a true A&R Rep; but when he mistakenly suggest a band on a whim to his boss, he learns that the group, Hello Moon, broke up 15 years ago. He’ll trek the Western U.S. with his best girlfriend and the aging guitarist who is just as determined to convince these former rockers that they haven’t yet had their true day in the sun while simultaneously trying to save his fledgling A&R career.
FEATURE DRAMA
The origin story of The Beast, this story tells of a time when a timid and insecure enchantress must find the power within herself and the powers she holds to help a prince become the loving king his country needs and not the beast he is foretold to be by the spells that will be cast on this young prince.
Co-Writer
FEATURE DRAMEDY
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995 High school senior Zach spends his days making Slurpee Durpees at the local Dairy Freeze alongside a hodgepodge crew of misfits, including wild but beautiful Kayla, and gregarious and gay Toby, awaiting his impending Mormon mission, but when his domineering stepfather mistakenly suspects Zack to be gay, a trip to conversion therapy camp sets in motion an escape mission and a personal journey that will shape Zack’s conviction in himself, his friends, his faith, and his future.
FEATURE DRAMA
When Army Vet Tim Sears boards a Carnival Cruise ship in 2003, he expects to have the time of his life, but when he comes to hours later in the middle of the ocean, with the ship nowhere to be seen, he must brave the elements, and his own fractured mind, in an effort to survive.
Based on True Events
Co-Writer
Working Title- Maddening Horizon
FEATURE DRAMA
When young teens Charlie, Zeke, Milo, and Brady sneak out of their house in 1983 to see the premiere of Return of the Jedi, only three of them will make it back home, but it will fall to the trio of friends, not the local authorities, to uncover the secrets and evil goings-on within their small town in rural Utah that led to the disappearance.
SHORT
In 1987, on a weekend camping trip in Utah’s beautiful Wasatch mountains, fourteen-year-old Arlo Murphy is eager to prove he can be a World Explorer Scout like his dad, while his parents grapple with Arlo’s evolving gender identity.
In Post-production
littlegenesfilm.com
SATIRICAL TEEN ANIMATION
Frank, a lonely orphan, reanimates a best friend named Stein to help him face the mysterious goings-on in his spooky hometown of Amityville, from alien invasions to toy possessions, to the scariest activity of all - daily life in middle school.
Frank’s life is full of adversity, from being an orphan to his different abilities, yet he greets every day with hope – hope that he’ll find a family of his own, and hope that he’ll be accepted for who he truly is. Frank never shies away from a challenge - when he found himself without friends, he built himself a best friend, Stein.
TV Pilot On Spec
Optioned
Co-Writer
ADULT ANIMATION
There is a Deep State in the United States government that’s trying to remain hidden. Only they aren’t working to keep secrets from the population. No, they’re working to expose the truth behind those wild, conspiracy theories that your Aunt Lucy whispers in your ear at every family reunion. (Why are her yams always the best? Because she wraps her head in tin foil so no one can read her mind to get the recipe.)
The Deep State is run by J.F.K. Jr. He’s not dead, and he’s tired of living in his father’s shadow. His plan is to run for president… in 2032.
TV Pilot On Spec
Optioned
Co-Writer
TV COMEDY
A newly divorced gay father, Wes, needs to make a new home for him and his son in the suburbs of Connecticut. A popular Twitter personality with the handle @GAYATHOMEDAD, Wes is a New York City fish out of water who must navigate mommy cliques, a town without any flavor, his emotional fragility, and the kitchen oven as he tries to keep his followers and find his feet.
TV Pilot On Spec
TV DRAMADY
Esme, a Honduran recipient of DACA, is living the American dream in LA - she’s bright, edgy, driven, independent, and though she’s currently managing a bar, she has aspirations of utilizing her education and degree to change the world. Annika works at the same bar in LA, but she’s here on an expired visa from Sweden, working to find herself, and opportunities for her future. When an immigration raid at the bar lands one of them in jail, the two young women must work together, despite their overwhelming differences, to overcome the odds that are stacked against them, and in doing that they discover that their similarities run far deeper than their citizenship status.
TV Pilot Commissioned
In Pre-production
TV MINI-SERIES
New Orleans 1850’s Antebellum: Delia Swift, aka Bridget Fury, and Mary Jane “Bricktop" Jackson, both fiery redheads formed, not only one of the first female street gangs in the United States, but also one of the most feared universally by men and women of New Orleans. When a mysterious murder is pinned on “Bricktop,” it’ll fall to Bridget Fury and her gang of street smart women to battle corrupt Ursuline Nuns backed by the Catholic Church, vicious slave traders, and even the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans herself, Marie Laveau, to save Bricktop’s life.
Based on True Events
TV DRAMEDY
Graphic artist Courtney Davis has just landed in Los Angeles, eager to start her new role as Editorial Cartoonist at a lesbian-centric magazine, but letting go of her conservative past in Utah, and adapting to the "out and proud" lifestyle of West Hollywood, is proving more difficult than she anticipated.
TV DRAMEDY
When aimless Jess discovers she has a sibling her parents kept a secret, her life collides with that of Haley, her sassy, shoplifting sister with Down Syndrome, her caseworker Ollie, and the residents of a Group Care Home, all of whom have their own secrets to keep.
Co-Writer
2018 - 2019
Grand Prize Winner
2018 Emerging Screenwriter
Grand Prize Winner
2018 Showcase
Feature Drama Winner
2019 Fellowship
Quarterfinalist
2019 Feature
Quarterfinalist
2019 Feature Drama Script Competition
Semifinalist
2018 Feature Screenplay
Semifinalist
2024 Feature Lab
winner
2022 Fellowship
Quarterfinalist
Sundance Institue
2021 Sundance Directors Lab
Finalist
Stage 32
Top Scripts of 2022
Double Recommend
2019 Fellowship
Quarterfinalist
2018
Top Finalist
2017 Feature Screenwriting
Semifinalist
2017 Feature
Quarterfinalist
2019 Feature Film Drama
Grand Prize
2017 Feature Screenwriting
Semifinalist
Co-author Lee Kelley
Screenwriters Intensive
Eleven screenwriters are selected to participate in Sundance Institute’s seventh annual Screenwriters Intensive in Los Angeles
Sloan Commissioning Grant
These fellowships are part of the Sundance Institute Science-In-Film Initiative, which is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Carl David Memorial Fellowship
Awarded to graduates in Directing and Screenwriting to promote a positive image of gay and lesbian pride and culture.
Sloan Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowships promote science fact in film and television
Skye Emerson is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, receiving her MFA at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, & Television wherein she received the Best Drama Feature Award at the Screenwriters Showcase, as well as the UCLA TFT Sloan Foundation Grant and was a recipient of the Carl David Memorial Screenwriting Fellowship for positive portrayals of the LGBTQ community.
Skye has been nationally recognized for her writing achievements, including being named a Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch in 2020 by the International Screenwriters Association receiving the 2019 Fresh Voices Grand Prize winner, and the Grand Prize in ISA’s Emerging Screenwriter’s Competition in 2018. Skye's continued professional development includes acceptance and participation in the 2019 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive Program. She was also awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Commissioning Grant through the Sundance Institute Fellowship program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2024, Skye's indie feature "Under the Influencer" showcased at Cannes Film Festival, and she directed her short "Little Genes." She's now in pre-production for her feature "Salt and Honey," while developing two additional feature projects.
She is passionate about all things art and storytelling which is emphasized in her work, featuring strong female protagonists and/ or members of the world's minority class. She's an advocate for the oppressed, a voice for the voiceless, and believes that film has the power to change minds and lives.
Skye's lived multiple lives, with careers as an Advertising Project Manager, Sports App Product Manager, and Volunteer Dog Walker. She shares her time between her homes in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, which means that her wardrobe is in constant flux between snow boots and stilettos.
Skye loves to read suspense novels and watch true crime TV, both of which have contributed to her growing insomnia and irrational fear of basements. Feel free to reach out any time, especially at night, as she's usually awake.
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As an MFA student at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, and later as a professional screenwriter, Skye struggled to find a screenwriting software platform that met all of her needs. Some were too confusing, very few offered innovative collaboration options. Some were not intuitive, most were too expensive.
Though we don’t do the writing for you (yet), we will make the writing experience more enjoyable, visually appealing, and less daunting.
With those struggles, Skye co-developed Scriip.
Scriip screenwriting software marries intuitively, collaboration, affordability, and innovation, all within an easy-to-use, cloud-based application.
Skye is a proud member of Women in Film
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