NIC YULO is a NYC-based author and writer-director with an M.F.A. from Columbia University’s Film Program.
Her work has received an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, a Breaking Barriers Grant for Female Directors,
and an Adobe Design Achievement Award.
A New York Women in Film & Television Scholarship Awardee, her films have been featured at the Sloan Film Summit presented by Film Independent,
and a number of film festivals.
In 2019, she was named a Top 15 Semi-Finalist for SeriesFest's Women Directing Mentorship in partnership with Shondaland.
Nic's original teleplay Night Witches, chronicling an all-female teenage bomber pilot regiment active in WWII,
was selected for the Athena Film Festival LA TV & Screenwriting Lab and
named a Finalist for SeriesFest's Women Writing Competition in partnership with Kyra Sedgwick's Big Swing Productions.
She is a writer for Ubisoft's AAA game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint,
and its Terminator, Splinter Cell, Future Soldier, and Rainbow Six Siege Live Crossover Events.
Nic's debut picture book, Patch of Sky, will be published by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of
Penguin Random House, in the Spring of 2022.
Nic is represented by Alexandra Levick at Writers House.
SeriesFest Women Writing Competition in partnership with Big Swing
2020 TOP 10 FINALIST
Adobe Design Achievement Award
Illustration | See Sky Pig | 2019 TOP TALENT
SeriesFest Women Directing Mentorship in Partnership with Shondaland
2019 TOP 15 SEMI-FINALIST
Athena Film Festival LA TV & Screenwriting Lab
Original Pilot | Night Witches | 2019 WINNER
WeScreenplay Diverse Screenwriting Lab
Original Pilot | Night Witches | 2019 SEMI-FINALIST
GiGadgets Technology Award
Best Short Film | Horizon |2018 WINNER
Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award
Original Pilot | Night Witches | 2018 WINNER
Bluecat Screenplay Competition
One Hour Pilot | Night Witches | 2018 SEMI-FINALIST
Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot
Original Pilot | Night Witches | 2018 SECOND ROUNDER
Columbia University Faculty Selects
Original Pilot | Night Witches | 2018 WINNER
Breaking Barriers Award for Female Directors
Short Screenplay | Horizon | 2017 WINNER
Cinematografo Best Student Short
Short Film | The Speed of Light |2017 WINNER
Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant
Short Film | Knights in Newark |2017 WINNER
Adobe Design Achievement Award
Short Film | Replica |2016 WINNER
Bluecat Screenplay Competition
Short Screenplay | Changelings |2016 FINALIST
Austin Film Festival AMC One-Hour Pilot
Original Pilot | Nighthawks | 2016 SECOND ROUNDER
CU - Sloan Treatment Competition
Feature Screenplay | The Lightning Jar | 2016 WINNER