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 and
by Science on Screen®.
A Columbia University M.F.A graduate and a New York Women in Film and Television Scholarship Awardee,
she has been twice-selected for Athena Film Festival's Writers Lab,
and been recognized by SFFilm's Rainin Grant,
Adobe Top Talent,
SeriesFest's Women Writing Competition in partnership with Big Swing Productions,
and Women Directing Mentorship in partnership with Shondaland.
Nic is the inaugural winner of the Disney Development Grant
for her Athena List
Philippine Gothic horror feature Laylayon. She was also inducted, as a game writer, into the BAFTA Newcomers Program.
She has since served as a BAFTA Vance Byrd Mentor
and a juror for the Narrative
and Leading Performance categories of
the 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'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'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.
Athena List
Inaugural Disney Grant
2023 WINNER | Laylayon | Feature Screenplay
Chinonye Chukwu
Emerging Writer Award
2022 WINNER | Laylayon | Feature Screenplay
BAFTA
Newcomers Program
Third Year | New York | Video Game Writer
Sloan Film Summit
Film Independent
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