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Gaby Santinelli, Screenwriter

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Adopting Parents feature • heart-warming family comedy • franchise potential

Adulting: Are We There Yet? developed 4-season TV dramedy series • wrote one-hour pilot

At His Majesty’s Pleasure feature based on Victor Hugo’s Le Roi S’amuse • satiric melodramatic tragedy

Aunt Sadie feature • female-driven dramedy • franchise potential

Christmas Carolers feature • Pitch Perfect for the holidays

River Road dramatic feature based on Joe Freda’s coming-of-age novel The Patience of Rivers


Because Love Is Love feature • US-UK interfaith holiday romance • outline

Botticelli’s Top Model feature • comedic time-travel fantasy

Christmas in Cambridge feature • based on a true US-UK romance

Unt. Pakistan to England Rags To Riches (think Slumdog Millionaire) feature • based on a true story


Araby • Eveline original stage adaptations of James Joyce’s short stories from Dubliners

The White Rabbit TV series based on WWII’s bravest spy Forest Yeo Thomas (aka the real James Bond)

Triptych stage play + feature • think HBO’s Girls (…before we had Girls!)

Upline  developed series & co-wrote TV pilot • multi-level marketing, female-driven dramedy


Gabriella ‘Gaby’ Santinelli is an Olivier Award winning actress, writer and coach.

She studied Theatre at America’s renowned Interlochen Arts Academy and Northwestern University, and received her Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance from Mannes College of Music (NYC).

Gabriella pursued her stage, screen & studio career in the UK from 1996-2011, where she won an Olivier Award for Jerry Springer The Opera at the National Theatre / West End, and became a dual US-UK Citizen.

While living in the UK, she began coaching actors in Text Analysis, and subsequently started devising, developing and writing works for stage and screen.

In 2011, Gabriella relocated to Los Angeles, where she teaches acting at the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts.

Since she began writing in 2007, she has amassed an exciting slate of screenwriting projects that she anticipates will start being produced as early as 2024.