Grace Dennin

Recruiting Coordinator

What I Do: Storytelling, Writing, and Recruiting
What I Am: 1st Generation Indonesian-American Screenwriter

Grace—a writer, poet, and teacher—hails from the sunniest city west of Mississippi: Los Angeles. As a biracial Indonesian-American, her desire to understand the liminal boundaries of culture have taken her across the globe to the likes of Vietnam, Italy, and South Korea in her work and studies.

She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her screenplays have earned many awards such as being a finalist for the 2023 Universal Animation Writers Program. As an avid enthusiast of many cultural niches like sports anime and RuPaul’s Drag Race, she explores writing of all sorts from sketch comedy to animated TV pilots to genre screenplays. Much of her art encourages vulnerability through topics of identity, the collective self, the other, and the inherent miscommunications between generations and cultures.

Like many writers of color before her, she seeks to broaden Hollywood’s expectations of genre and representation through her screenplays (and to hopefully get healthcare for doing it). Not only is this true for her writing, but also in her volunteer work with AIA. She loves connecting members to volunteer roles best suited to their skills and goals as a way of nurturing future Asian-American filmmakers. Her advocacy at AIA focuses on community and career building for early career creatives.

Fun fact: Grace can impersonate many 1st Generation Pokemon from the original English dub anime—her favorites being Pikachu and Bulbsaur.

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