Elianor Aoun

Elianor M.A. is a multilingual Lebanese-American screenwriter, journalist, and author. She is an MFA graduate of the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television at the University of Southern California. Her writing has appeared in Ms. Magazine and the Women’s Media Center, where she wrote op-eds about modern feminism and the horrors of girlhood—way before BARBIE did. Her work centers on women behaving badly in the systems that taught them how. Her pilot SISTER HENNESSY was a 2026 ISA Diversity Initiative Finalist and Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, while her feature THE HIGH GROUND placed in the top 3.5% of scripts on The Black List and was named a “must-read” by the platform.