WRITER
for Stage & Screen
Ellen composed the original score and wrote the screenplay and lyrics for First Light (2020), an animated musical fantasy short directed by Amy Lee Ketchum which has garnered numerous awards. It was a winner at the 2021 Academy Award®-qualifying Ann Arbor Film Festival. It won Best Animation at the 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival. The film received Best Score at the 2020 Mediterranean Film Festival - Cannes, Best Animation at the 2020 Mediterranean Film Festival as well as a short animation award at the 2020 American Filmatic Arts Awards in Brooklyn. First Light was also an official selection of many Academy Award®-qualifying film festivals.
Additionally, Ellen wrote the screenplay, lyrics, and composed the music for Green Tree, a short musical film directed by Carla Dauden. The film was immediately very popular online, receiving hundreds of thousands of views.
As a playwright, Ellen has had the good fortune of working with Rachel Bay Jones who starred in her full-length drama, Roses on the Rocks, produced by Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City in 2009. Additionally, Ellen has had plays produced at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco CA, and at The Theatre Shoppe in Chicago, IL.
Screenplays
Green Tree
Director: Carla Dauden
Actress: Sassy Thompson
Soprano: Agne G
Piano: Mark Livshits
Flute: Michele Kelly
Cello: Ezgi Yargici
Writer & Composer: Ellen Boscov
First Light
Director & Animator: Amy Lee Ketchum
Vocalists: Jessica Beebe and Maren Montalbano (Both vocalists in Grammy®Award-winning ensembles.)
Writer & Composer: Ellen Boscov
“[Green Tree] is lovely! Expressive, beautifully shaped, and well-written! Brava — and keep composing!”
— Richard Brodhead, composer & emeritus faculty, Temple University
“Beautifully done . . . The Roses on The Rocks isn't around for much longer - I urge you to see it while you still can.”
— The Fab Marquee review by Karen Tortora-Lee.
Stage Play
Roses On The Rocks
Manhattan Theater Source
Written by: Ellen Boscov
Directed by: Richard Caliban
Starring: Rachel Bay Jones (Broadway: Tony award winning performance in Dear Evan Hansen) Scott Sowers (Broadway: Inherit the Wind and A Street Car Named Desire), Laura Montes and Fulvia Vergel
Featuring left-to-right: Rachel Bay Jones (Tony and Emmy award winner for Dear Evan Hansen) and Scott Sowers (Broadway: Inherit the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire)