I’m a screenwriter, cartoonist, copywriter, and poet.

I love family movies, sports movies, and dark comedies. I love weird, clever comics and witty, plainspoken poems. My childish creativity and knack for puns continually draw me to animation, but I also write dramas, dark comedies, and adult cartoons.

GOLD BRICKS!

A dark comedy I wrote with the creative genius Hunter Ashton. It’s a half-hour comedy loosely based on Dante's Inferno about a budding 1980s gameshow host who risks everything for superstardom, descending deeper into Hollywood’s underbelly along the way.

“Who’s ready to go for gold?!”

  • Second Round — Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition

  • Semifinalist — ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition

  • Top 100 — Launch Pad Pilot Competition

  • Semifinalist — Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards

 

sugar high

An adult cartoon about three siblings who defy the sugar ban in their town to become underground candy dealers. You’ll never look at Skittles the same way again. You’re welcome.

 

stuck in

A dark comedy I wrote with the Pilot King himself, Eric Mallory Morgan. We both grew up playing competitive soccer so we teamed up to write about it.

Stuck In is a half-hour dark comedy about badboy fuck-up Wayne “Rafi” Armstrong. Wayne was destined to be the brightest star in international soccer, but a career defined by on-field bust-ups and off-field antics leaves him nearly unemployable, on his last legs, in the darkest soccer black-hole in the universe: Alabama.

  • Winner — Imagine Impact x Skydance Sports TV Accelerator

  • Semifinalist — ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition

  • Quarterfinalist — Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest

  • Second Round — Launch Pad Pilot Competition

 

H@T/TIPS

A fast-paced sketch comedy show I wrote with Hunter Ashton. We both thought: what if you could enjoy the hilarity of the internet without having to wade through the thick bog of online troll shit.

So we wrote a sketch comedy show for the digital age. Bite-sized and rapid-fire like a social media feed, each episode is made up of 20-25 mini-sketches. The kicker is that every sketch is based on an actual social media post. Welcome to the show that writes itself.

 

TUG

A family movie about a tugboat named Tug and his freighter best friend, Cargo. When Cargo goes missing, Tug must face his fear of the open ocean and leave San Francisco Bay for the first time in his life to find him.

  • Top 5 Finalist — Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest

  • Finalist — ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest

  • Finalist — Cinequest Film Festival Screenplay Competition

  • Finalist — UCLA Screenwriters Showcase

  • Semifinalist — Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Award

Artwork by Hailey Marshall

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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RIBBIT

An animated short about a tadpole named Tad who’s a very late bloomer. While his tankmates develop into frogs, he remains a legless loner. But when his fellow frogs get plucked out of their tank by a 10th-grade biology teacher on dissection day, Tad is the only one who can save them.

 
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Email me to read a script

eli.elbogen@gmail.com

@eliwritesoutloud