Writing
Produced & Published
Damned If You Do
Feature Film
Co-written with Eric Gilde
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A group of friends who sold their souls to the devil at graduation---now a pop star, a social media mogul, and a high-profile activist----reconvene at their 25th high school reunion to escape Hell's grasp before the contract's deadline expires.
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Filmed in summer 2024, starring Kate Siegel, Harvey Guillen, Paulo Costanzo, Ginger Gonzaga, Beth Dover, Ed Weeks, Molly Bernard, Liza Treyger, Matthew Steven Smith, and others, and directed by Jake Rubin & Evan Metzold.
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Deadline article: Kate Siegel to topline DAMNED IF YOU DO
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Deadline article: Harvey Guillen and nine others join DAMNED IF YOU DO
Coming Out Polyamorous for Thanksgiving
Short Film
Adapted with Alex Alberto from a chapter of their book Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home
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When polyamorous spouses Alex and Don introduce Don's partner Aly to his Southern parents on Thanksgiving, they must weigh biological family against their chosen one.
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Filmed in January 2025, starring Ellen Adair, Mitzi Akaha, Scott Thomas, Monica Wyche and Jim O'Neill, and directed by Maren Lavelle.
Curtain Speech
Poetry Book
Subtitled "An Actor's Poems About the Theater," Curtain Speech delves into the relationship between an actor and their character, and a life straddling parallel realities. Some poems are written from the perspective of the characters, and some from the actor, but all expand the playwrights' original creation.
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"“Ellen Adair defies the description ‘actor-turned-poet’—she is a poet, full stop; and a glorious poet at that. With far more delicate precision than any memoir or how-to handbook on performance technique could hope to attain, she illuminates and records the intensely intimate, bone-deep process of embodying a character. With virtuosic simplicity and attention to detail, she masterfully uses language to capture what is, paradoxically, beyond the verbal. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand what it’s like, on a metabolic level, to inhabit a role." - Brennan Brown
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In Process
Roman K, Glasses Painting
The Miraculous Journey of Con Mulcahy's Glasses
Novel
Con Mulcahy leaves their apartment building in Queens to find their own glasses sitting on the doorstep. That’s convenient—except they know the last time they had the glasses was at a party in Brooklyn. Granted, details are hazy, because the appearance of their ex-girlfriend Jessie had caused them to run straight into the arms of a bottle of bourbon.
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So: how did the glasses get from Brooklyn to Queens? The novel offers possible answers in different perspectives, both piecing together the events of the night before, and considering the mechanics of an everyday miracle.
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There’s Alex, a well-meaning actor at the party who develops a crush on Con, and Jessie, the ex, a paramedic and musician. But other sections involve a young Muslim woman who hears angels, or an accident on the part of interdimensional beings, or the notion that glasses are sentient and can move on their own. (Obviously, a well-kept secret.) We also follow Con as they crawl through the challenges of their hungover workday at an auction house, puzzling all of it out, and trying to look like a vertical adult.
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Complete at 99,000 words, this magical realism/literary speculative novel is currently being queried.
The Universe of the Gods
Novel
A god from an ancient society, Wick, is having a mid-life crisis.
He's aware that it's absurd to have a mid-life crisis when he doesn't technically have a life----but the current arrangement for communication between gods and mortals upsets him. It doesn't seem to be leading to much more growth for them than the old way, when gods could walk freely on the mortal earths.
When one of his bonded mortals is reassigned, he has to figure out how to make his point----even if it means breaking everything.
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This novel is currently in process on its first draft.
Remedios Varo, "La Llamada"
The Importance of Being
Novel
Rachael is heartbroken when her unexpected dream girl breaks off their showmance just before the invited dress of a production of The Importance of Being Earnest. But then, during the performance, she notices something odd about her costar. Getting to the bottom of this mystery sends her through twists and turns that reveal new, bizarre truths about her profession, her industry, and ultimately, the human relationship to the otherworldly.
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This novel is currently in outline phase, in expansion from a completed novelette that is "Act I" of the story.
Hilma af Klint, The Swan - No. 1
Screenplays in Process
Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde are currently working on another high-school-based horror comedy, along with a wedding-based horror comedy and a Christmas movie.
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Ellen is also working on another screenplay, approximately Sliding Doors meets Being John Malkovich, with Paulo Costanzo.
Look at these goofs.
Balls and Strikes
TV Pilot/Series
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Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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Semifinalist, Screencraft Comedy Competition
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Semifinalist, Orlando Film Festival
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Quarterfinalist, GEMFest International Screenplay Competition
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Selection, Austin Under the Stars Film Festival
Co-written with Chris Carfizzi
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Erin’s career as a sports writer is the love of her life, but the hyper-masculine environment where she works is constantly cockblocking her----sometimes literally.
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Erin is on the lowest non-intern rung at the National Sports Network, working the 'Rumor Hub' baseball blog for NSN'S website that synthesizes other reporting to create content. It's not so bad, though, because she gets to work with her best friend in the world, Cary Martino. But with cable revenues down, the Network is tightening the belt. Will the careers they dreamt of growing up continue to exist?
When they mistakenly switch email addresses and Cary learns how much harder Erin has to work as a woman in the field, he proposes that they switch online work identities. Secretly, he’s hoping to save both of their jobs. Publicly, the identity swap causes mayhem, both comical and serious, some of which threaten to drive our heroes apart. ​
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