Alex J Ankrom

Alex J Ankrom is a current screenwriBng fellow at the American Film Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in PoliBcal 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 tutelage 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.