Person
Trey Ellis
Writing · Born 1962-01-01 · Washington, D.C., USA
Biography
Trey Ellis (born 1962) is an American novelist, screenwriter, professor, playwright, and essayist. He was born in Washington D.C. and graduated from Hopkins School and Phillips Academy, Andover, where he studied under Alexander Theroux before attending Stanford University, where he was the editor of the Stanford Chaparral and wrote his first novel, Platitudes in a creative writing class taught by Gilbert Sorrentino. He is a professor of Professional Practice in the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Trey Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Hotel Costiera
Writer

The Tuskegee Airmen
Teleplay

Good Fences
Screenplay

The Inkwell
Writer

Cosmic Slop
Writer

King in the Wilderness
Producer

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2025Hotel CostieraWriter
- 2019True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for EqualityExecutive Producer
- 2018King in the WildernessProducer
- 2003Good FencesScreenplay
- 1995The Tuskegee AirmenTeleplay
- 1994Cosmic SlopWriter
- 1994The InkwellWriter
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