Elizabeth Dickinson
Screenwriter, Actor and Voice Actor
Saint Paul Park, Minnesota
April 2023
2 days ago
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About Elizabeth
I'm a writer (screenwriter, novelist, non-fiction), and have placed in multiple screenwriting competitions, including Scriptapalooza and Cinestory.
"Bold In My Breeches" (a Thelma and Louise on the high seas female pirate buddy story) was a Catalyst Literary Selection in 2022, and the musical film/stage play version was a finalist at Moondance. It’s inspired by the true story of real-life pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
Initially my writing explored choices of females who want more than society accepts.
When I discovered the published letters of cousin Emily Dickinson, I created the most accurate portrait possible of someone who told slanted truths (Emily Dickinson/"My Letter to the World").
Upon learning ballroom dancing, I wrote a valentine for middle-aged women who dance, (Marge/"Ballroom Bliss").
On the gentler side, I created rebels of different ages – both the submitted piece of "Pollination Partners" as well as "Journey of the First Direction" in which 11 year-old Sophia uses myth animals to transcend being bullied.
More recently, I’ve developed a tv series "No Angels Need Apply" which integrates reincarnation, my own past-life memories, and temporal relativity into something that’s tonally a cross between "Everything Everywhere All At Once", "It’s A Wonderful Life", and "Game of Thrones". It showcases one soul/5 different lives/genders/historical times over 5 seasons (gladiator, nun, torturer, freedom fighter, artist), exploring how a soul transcends human reincarnation to become an angel.
I have written, produced/presented 4 short documentaries on subjects from green building to health care to a local Wal-Mart expose (a Media Matters finalist). Activist work includes community organizing/lobbying for education, health care and environment and running for office representing Greens. All this attempts to answer the question: How can we make it easier to be human and live on – and preserve - planet earth?
In my ongoing learning, I’ve taken dozens of courses at the Loft, FilmNorth, Playwrights Center, Hamline University, Screenwriting U. and joined Catalyst Institute. Screenwriters Workshop is/was a regular part of my writing development, and I’ve been individual mentored, as needed.
I’m also have an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and am a certified coach and wrote The Concise Coaching Handbook: How to Coach Yourself and Others to Get Business Results.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading this!
Unique traits: Competitive ballroom dancer, English accents
Badges
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Loglines
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Pollination Partners Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance A free-spirited older woman and a lonely widower meet by chance at a butterfly garden at summer’s end and must decide whether their personalities make them ideal ‘pollination partners’ for a future in a warmer climate.
Credits
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Gridlock'd (
1997 )
Film by Vondie Curtis-Hall Admissions Gridlock'd is a 1997 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu, and Thandie Newton. (And yup, I'm in the trailer...)
Awards
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Bold In My Breeches, Catalyst Official Literary Selection
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Ballroom Bliss, Semi-finalist, Missouri Film Competition
(2021) -
Rebirth, Top 25%, Page International Screenwriting
(2009) -
Bold in Their Breeches (screenplay/libretto/lyrics) Final 2, Moondance International Film Festival
(2009) -
Always Low (documentary short script and film) Finalist, Media Matters
(2004) -
My Letter to the World Best of Fest, Minnesota Fringe Festival (performance), 2001-2003
(2003) -
Journey of the First Direction Semi-finalist, Scriptapalooza
(2001) -
Journey of the First Direction Semi-finalist, Cinestory
(2001)
Education
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Adler Graduate School
(2010-2011) -
Lesley University
(1987-1989) -
Cambridge University
(1979-1983) -
University of Delaware
(1978-1979)
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