All About Yvie

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Yvie Jones writes stories and tells jokes. (Or does she write jokes and tell stories? Yes.) She is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer, memoir ghostwriter, screenwriter (see a fave spec, for HACKS, here), playwright, and comedian whose work has been described as smart, funny, layered, and powerful.In 2023, Yvie was selected as a St. Nell's Humor Writing Resident and a Yes And Laughter Lab finalist.In 2024, she got her stand-up comedy on performing at Joe's Pub in NYC. And her comedic TV pilot script NO POPO landed on Coverfly's The Red List before nabbing quarterfinalist spots in the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition and the Black Boy Writes Media Mentorship Initiative.In 2025, NO POPO was named a ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship semifinalist and a Shore Scripts TV Writer Mentorship quarterfinalist, selected for Coverfly’s The Red List several more times, and landed in the Top 1% of all of Coverfly’s 347,805 screenwriting projects.Yvie was also selected for April's Audible-Sundance Audio Storytelling Intensive, wrote a new one-hour tour for a historical walking tour company, and served as a 2026 FY National Endowment for the Arts panelist.A longtime dotcom and media arts professional, Yvie has written, edited, and produced multimedia projects for companies including Comcast Interactive Media, the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, National Public Radio, Scribe Video Center, the Sundance Film Festival, and Time Warner.These days, Yvie loves doing anything that takes her away from keyboards and glowing screens, including frolicking in Pennsyltucky nature and donning a hospital gown and a critical eye to help medical professionals practice and hone their clinical skills.In Fall 2025, Yvie took on her first memoir ghostwriting clients and looks forward to working with more amazing people with stories to tell in the new year.She has several projects on tap in 2026, including:+ An essay collection+ Adapting BATTERED & FRIED, her action comedy feature about :::checks notes::: climate change and Waffle House as a graphic novel+ A new TV pilot/audio drama FANCY FREE+ Writing and producing a full-length play, AND I'M FEELING GOOD+ And directing the summer 2026 production of A QUIET ROAR, a play she was commissioned to write about renowned Black Quakers and civil rights activists Bayard Rustin and Sarah Mapps Douglass.Finally, Yvie is an NYU Tisch School of the Arts drop out, but only because living in NYC as a teen--even back in the Pleistocene Era--was incredibly expensive. If you’ve read this far, you deserve a prize.

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