TELEVISION WRITER
BREAKING DOWN SYSTEMS ONE PILOT AT A TIME
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GHOSTFISH | One-Hour Supernatural Dramedy
"DEAD AND TRENDING"
After a teen influencer dies livestreaming a roof-walking stunt, her ghost becomes trapped in her former home. When a grieving family moves in a year later, she forms separate secret relationships with the teenage siblings and begins investigating their brother’s unexplained suicide.
ISA Fast Track Fellowship - Fall
October 2026
CATEGORY SELECTION - COMEDY
CREATIVE SCREENWRITING
September 2026
TOP TEN FINALIST - TV Pilot
STARCROSSED | One-Hour Drama
At the height of the Y2K pop craze, a teenage boy-band frontman reels when a leaked sex tape exposes his relationship as a label-manufactured sham, while a sixteen-year-old mall-pop singer seizes the sudden opening to break into the majors, bringing them into each other’s orbit just as both are invited to the biggest industry event of the year.
"TWO HOUSEHOLDS"
THRESHOLD | One-Hour Animated Dark Fantasy Drama
"MERCY"
When her goddess goes silent inside ruins consumed by a spreading magical rot, a Mercybinder trained to carry out divine decisions she has no hand in making must define true mercy for herself, breaking sacred law and creating something impossible.
SCRIPT2COMIC 2026
October 2026
QUARTERFINALIST
CREATIVE SCREENWRITING
July 2026
SEMIFINALIST - Animation
Wiki Screenplay Contest
May 2026
FINALIST - Television Script
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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