Alex J Ankrom is a current screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from Boston University in 2006. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University’s prestigious Graduate Creative Writing Program under the tutilage of Leslie Epstein and Ha Jin, where he was a scholarship recipient as one of the top applicants. His screenplay adaptation of his novel Going South was named a Quarterfinalist script for the 2009 Nicholl Fellowship. His screenplay Castles Made of Sand was just named a Semifinalist in the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship. He is also the writer of the AFI thesis film Dead Man’s Hand. Alex was raised in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. He co-runs a production company back in the Commonwealth that has produced numerous plays and operas, including Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
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