Elise D'Haene
Screenwriter, Author, and Teacher in the United States
Elise D’Haene is a 2019 WGA West honoree in the Writer's Access Project for her 1/2 hour dramedy "It Ain't Over." A screenwriter and published author, she was a writer on THE LITTLE MERMAID II, in addition to development work on other projects at Disney. She penned a half dozen episodes of Showtime's "Red Shoe Diaries," served as a writer and story editor on the series "Wind on Water" at NBC, wrote several features for the Zalman King Company, and pilots for FX, NBC, ABC, among others.
"It Ain't Over" (formerly "Old Dykes), was chosen as a winner by the LGBTQ Toronto Film Festival and the Los Angeles Female Feedback Film Festival in 2019.
Her screenplay BEAVER, LAS VEGAS (based on an original idea and co-written with Amy Goldman & Jessica Spencer) won the 2018 Best Feature Comedy script in the Film Daily Screenwriting Competition and was a finalist in the 2017 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices feature competition.
In addition to her screen work, D'Haene continues to write and publish fiction. Academy Award nominee Emma Donoghue (ROOM) selected D'Haene's short story "Self-Deliverance" for recent publication in the anthology "Love Alters: Lesbian Love Stories" (Little Brown, UK). Donoghue wrote that "D'Haene explores an appalling act of love: helping someone die. This three-way love story is a heart-breaking study of family values, in the best sense."
D'Haene is the author of the novel "Licking Our Wounds" (Permanent Press), which won a Best Small Press Fiction Award, co-author of the erotic series "Red Shoe Diaries" (Penguin/Berkeley Books, 2006), and has published several short stories, including “Married,” winner of a Hemingway Award.
She is a script coach and Visiting Artist at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, where she co-developed a low-residency MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage. She has several feature film and TV projects in development. She is based in L.A. and Pittsburgh, and boxes at City of Angels Boxing in L.A.