Ep. 93 Eileen Alvarez

Eileen Álvarez is a Latina Writer/Actor/Director who was raised in the Bay Area by deeply committed political activist parents who fled Argentina in exile during the "Dirty War." Eileenreceived a degree in Philosophy from UCLA, an M.F.A from the Actors Studio, and made her directorial debut with Finding Mabel, an award winning documentary about Argentina's 30,000 Disappeared. Her sophomore film Grit, a dark comedy about infertility, won several festival awards and was picked up by Elizabeth Banks' Whohaha. In 2020, Eileen's comedy Pilot Güera took home first place during the Page International Screenwriting Awards, and in the same year she joined the writers' room for the adult animated series Close Enough, for HBOMax. In 2021 Eileen joined the inaugural class of the Nalip and Netflix short narrative incubator for Latinx and Women of Color, where she wrote and directed a psychological thriller comedy entitled Mama Retreat, starring Annie Gonzalez. Mama Retreat went on to premiere at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF). Eileen has had the pleasure of being hired to write scripts for shows for Nickelodeon and Sony, and has gone on to develop TV series' with The Tannenbaum Company, Wilmer Valderrama Entertainment, and Westbrook. Eileen is repped by Stagecoach Entertainment and Paradigm.