About Elyse

Elyse is a feature and television writer currently developing content for Hooked, the leading mobile streaming platform for Gen Z. Before working at Hooked, Elyse served as a writers’ assistant at Netflix and Nickelodeon, and as a reader for the Blacklist. She received her MFA in Screenwriting from NYU Tisch in 2016. Through her work, Elyse hopes to champion LGBTQ+ stories and provide on-screen representation for queer youth. She lives in New York with her wife and their two cats, Josie and Jay Catsby. When questioned about her most memorable trait, the counselors at a Jewish day camp outside of Washington, DC cited her love of cream cheese, a passion that persists through today.