Gracie Marcellus
- Writer
- Producer
- Editor
Gracie Marcellus is a Screenwriter known for her award-winning script Kosher Nostra and her student short film Elevated. She graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy (IAA) as a high school Motion Picture Arts (MPA) major in 2020.
At the age of 19, her original hour-long coming-of-age TV Pilot script Kosher Nostra won Best Virginia Teleplay at the 2022 Richmond International Film Festival. Marcellus and Kosher Nostra were a Top Story featured on the front page in June 2022 of the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Kosher Nostra also placed as a Finalist in the 2021 Nashville Film Festival, Top 100 at Launch Pad Pilot Competition, Nominee for Best Script at Montreal Independent Film Festival, Semi-Finalist at Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards as well as Acadamy Qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Quarter-Finalist at six other major screenwriting competitions.
Her high school senior thesis short film Elevated (2020) garnered recognition at multiple film festivals. She also won an Honorable Mention award for her screenplay "Bubble Gum" at the 2020 HS 48 Short Script Project competition during quarantine. Students from across the United States and around the world created a short script in only 48 hours. The judging panel was led by Sharon Y. Cobb, Hollywood screenwriter and member of the Writers Guild of America.
In May 2019, she received "The Golden Grip Award" from the Motion Picture Arts faculty for her work ethic on student thesis short film sets at the end-of-the-year all-school community meeting at Interlochen Arts Academy.
In 2018, Marcellus was a Production Intern on the Italian Christmas film Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019) filmed on-location in West Virginia.
In 2016, Marcellus auditioned and was one of three selected from her county to attend The Appomattox Regional Governors school for the arts & technology (ARGS) as a high school Musical Theatre major. At ARGS, she was the only freshman cast in the fall main-stage production of Smile the Musical. She was later cast as a lead by a guest director for the spring 2017 main-stage production of Eurydice.
At the age of 19, her original hour-long coming-of-age TV Pilot script Kosher Nostra won Best Virginia Teleplay at the 2022 Richmond International Film Festival. Marcellus and Kosher Nostra were a Top Story featured on the front page in June 2022 of the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Kosher Nostra also placed as a Finalist in the 2021 Nashville Film Festival, Top 100 at Launch Pad Pilot Competition, Nominee for Best Script at Montreal Independent Film Festival, Semi-Finalist at Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards as well as Acadamy Qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Quarter-Finalist at six other major screenwriting competitions.
Her high school senior thesis short film Elevated (2020) garnered recognition at multiple film festivals. She also won an Honorable Mention award for her screenplay "Bubble Gum" at the 2020 HS 48 Short Script Project competition during quarantine. Students from across the United States and around the world created a short script in only 48 hours. The judging panel was led by Sharon Y. Cobb, Hollywood screenwriter and member of the Writers Guild of America.
In May 2019, she received "The Golden Grip Award" from the Motion Picture Arts faculty for her work ethic on student thesis short film sets at the end-of-the-year all-school community meeting at Interlochen Arts Academy.
In 2018, Marcellus was a Production Intern on the Italian Christmas film Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019) filmed on-location in West Virginia.
In 2016, Marcellus auditioned and was one of three selected from her county to attend The Appomattox Regional Governors school for the arts & technology (ARGS) as a high school Musical Theatre major. At ARGS, she was the only freshman cast in the fall main-stage production of Smile the Musical. She was later cast as a lead by a guest director for the spring 2017 main-stage production of Eurydice.