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NIC YULO is an author-illustrator and writer-director based in NYC. Her work has received an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, a Breaking Barriers Grant for Female Directors, an Adobe Design Achievement Award, a Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award, and been featured at the Sloan Film Summit presented by Film Independent. A Columbia University M.F.A Film Program graduate and a NYWIFT Scholarship Awardee, she has been twice-selected to attend the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab, named a 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grant Finalist, a Finalist for SeriesFest's Women Writing Competition in partnership with Kyra Sedgwick's Big Swing Productions, and a Top 15 semi-finalist for SeriesFest's Women Directing Mentorship in partnership with Shondaland.
In 2021, Nic was inducted, as a game writer, into the BAFTA Newcomers Program. She is also a BAFTA Vance Byrd Mentor and a juror for the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards. Nic is a writer for Ubisoft's AAA game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and its Splinter Cell, Terminator, Rainbow Six Siege, and later episodes. Nic is a current winner of Athena Film Festival's 2023 Athena List and the Inaugural Disney Development Grant for her Philippine Gothic horror feature Laylayon.

Nic's author-illustrator debut, Patch of Sky, sold in a four-house auction and was published by Penguin Random House. Her second book, Out of the Blue, which also brings STEM concepts to life for very young readers, was released in the summer of 2023.
Nic is represented by Alexandra Levick at Writers House
and Becca Rodriguez at Grandview.

Athena List
Inaugural Disney Grant

2023 WINNER | Laylayon | Feature Screenplay

Chinonye Chukwu
Emerging Writer Award

2022 WINNER | Laylayon | Feature Screenplay

BAFTA
Newcomers Program

Second Year | New York | Video Game Writer

BAFTA
Newcomers Program

AWARDEE | Night Witches | Original Pilot

WIF x Black List
Episodic Lab

2021 SEMI-FINALIST | Night Witches | Original Pilot

Athena Film Festival
Writers Lab

2021 PARTICIPANT | Laylayon | Feature Screenplay

SFFILM + Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant

2021 FINALIST | Laylayon | Screenwriting

Columbia Blue List
Film MFA Alumni

2021 WINNER | Laylayon | Feature Screenplay

SeriesFest Women Writing Competition + Big Swing

2020 TOP 10 FINALIST

Adobe Design
Achievement Award

2019 TOP TALENT| See Sky Pig | Illustration

SeriesFest Women Directing Mentorship + Shondaland

2019 TOP 15 SEMI-FINALIST

Athena Film Festival
LA TV & Screenwriting Lab

2019 PARTICIPANT | Night Witches | Original Pilot

WeScreenplay Diverse
Screenwriting Lab

2019 SEMI-FINALIST | Night Witches | Original Pilot

  GiGadgets
Technology Award

2018 WINNER | Horizon | Best Short Film

Alfred P. Sloan
Screenplay Award

2018 WINNER | Night Witches | Original Pilot

Bluecat
Screenplay Competition

2018 SEMI-FINALIST | Night Witches | One Hour Pilot

Austin Film Festival
Drama Teleplay Pilot

2018 Second Rounder | Night Witches | Original Pilot

Columbia University
Faculty Selects

2018 WINNER | Night Witches | Original Pilot

Breaking Barriers Award
for Female Directors

2017 WINNER | Horizon | Short Screenplay

Bluecat
Screenplay Competition

2018 SEMI-FINALIST | Horizon | Short Screenplay

Cinematografo
Best Student Short

2017 WINNER | The Speed of Light | Short Film

Alfred P. Sloan
Production Grant

2017 WINNER | Knights in Newark | Short Film

Adobe Design
Achievement Award

2016 WINNER | Replica | Short Film

Bluecat
Screenplay Competition

2016 FINALIST | Changelings | Short Screenplay

Austin Film Festival
AMC One-Hour Pilot

2016 Second Rounder | Nighthawks | Original Pilot

CU - Sloan
Treatment Competition

2016 WINNER | The Lightning Jar | Feature Screenplay

New York Women
in Film and Television

2015 WINNER | Scholarship