TELEVISION DRAMA WRITER
BREAKING DOWN SYSTEMS ONE PILOT AT A TIME
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For representation and project inquiries: shylahaddante@gmail.com
GHOSTFISH | One-Hour Supernatural Dramedy
"DEAD AND TRENDING"
After a livestream stunt kills her, a teenage influencer awakens electrically tethered to her former home just as a grieving family moves in. When their thirteen-year-old daughter becomes convinced she is real, she must decide whether to exploit her attention to keep from fading or risk trusting her guarded older brother, the first person to see past the persona she died performing.
CREATIVE SCREENWRITING
July 2026
QUARTERFINALIST - TV Pilot
STARCROSSED | One-Hour Adult Prestige Drama
In the music industry of 2000, two teenage artists from rival record labels fall in love in secret while executives, journalists, publicists, parents, and television personalities compete to own their stories. As fame turns their private lives into public property, they discover that the most dangerous thing in the entertainment business isn't scandal. It's authenticity.
"TWO HOUSEHOLDS"
THRESHOLD | One-Hour Animated Dark Fantasy Drama
"MERCY"
In a world where gods have been domesticated by institutions, a Mercybinder cut off from her goddess must decide whether mercy means ending suffering, preserving life, or breaking the sacred system that taught her the difference.
Wiki Screenplay Contest
May 2026
FINALIST - Television Script
CREATIVE SCREENWRITING
July 2026
SEMIFINALIST - Animation
BLACK MIRROR | TV Spec
A scientist sets out to preserve humanity's capacity for empathy after climate collapse, and becomes, by degrees, the thing she was trying to prevent.
BLACK MIRROR
"GENESIS"
SHYLAH ADDANTE | Bio
SHYLAH ADDANTE is a television drama writer whose work centers on people surviving inside institutions designed to break them. Her original pilots include THRESHOLD, a one-hour animated fantasy drama about a divine arbiter forced to deliver mercy after her goddess goes silent; GHOSTFISH, a supernatural dramedy about a dead teenage influencer tethered to her former home; and STARCROSSED, a Y2K music-industry drama about young artists caught inside rival corporate machines.
Her produced work includes The Christmas Dragon, a feature film featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Season 13. She is also the author of the YA fantasy novel Garden of Thorns and Light. She completed the UCLA Professional Program in Television Writing, where she developed original pilots and a Black Mirror spec. She holds an Ed.D. studying how institutions manage people who present as problems, which continues to shape her work as a writer.
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