Independent Writers' Caucus
Kelly Anelons
Kelly is a TV and feature writer with a knack for finding the funny, especially in life’s worst situations. She’s been lost in Mongolia, served as the youngest member of a Congressional campaign (back when that was fun), and talked her way into running a small marketing firm. She’s the only child of workaholic parents, and spent hours watching Mel Brooks, Laurel and Hardy, and Carol Burnett doing the thing she loved: making people laugh.
She writes with her daughter, Megan, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing team. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers.
Her hobbies include thinking of getting some hobbies, mentoring young writers, and obsessing over YA novels. Her goals are to write a sex comedy for Helen Mirren, learn to walk in high heels… and of course, world peace.
Honors & Awards
Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021
StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020
Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019
non-WGA
Female, 40+
A.K.A.
Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY
When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself?
BEST LAID PLANS
Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS
When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop.
LIFE'S A BEAUT
Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK
A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky
Female, 40+
unrepped