Hilary has written for series at Nickelodeon, TeamTO, and a couple that are still under NDA. She also writes freelance articles for Script Magazine, Animation Magazine, and others. She is seeking representation and paid writing opportunities.
Growing up a multi-heritage PWD and homeschooled nature-girl in Northern California and Hawaii, she developed a love of travel and hiking. She’s worked as a calculus tutor, librarian, archivist, video editor, journalist, and comedy club production staffer, but was originally training to be a pastry chef (and even made the front page of the local newspaper as an award winning culinary artist as a teenager).
Her first original children’s script was inspired by her senior year at UC Santa Cruz, immersed in French culture during a study abroad program in Paris. While at USC earning her Film and TV Production MFA, she customized her curriculum by including animation and Imagineering classes, and by choosing the newly developed comedy concentration.
A lifelong outsider herself, she found her voice writing genre stories with a sprinkle of humor about underrepresented fish-out-of-water characters who discover their place in the world by helping others. Why? Genre settings and the use of humor allow the most freedom in using analogy and metaphor to portray social and societal issues like disability, ethnicity, and gender in a way that bypasses the emotional walls people reflexively use to keep empathy out – and to Hilary empathy comprises a great deal of the reasons she watches films and series. Seeing through other people’s points of view and getting glimpses of unfamiliar life experiences through the lens of familiar or even universal themes are significant aspects that motivate her both as a viewer and as a writer.