ELAINE MERYL BROWN

Elaine Meryl Brown found out why she was born at the age of nine - she was born to write. She is a Daytime EMMY AWARD Winning Writer – ABC-TV “FYI” – with varied experience in the media, entertainment, and publishing industries. Her passion is visual storytelling. Writing characters and dialogue is her superpower and producing is her gift. While growing up, her motivation was putting characters on the screen who looked like her. Now with years of corporate and writing experience under her belt, her dream of becoming a full-time writer is being manifest and her goal is coming full circle.

 

Throughout her career, Elaine’s writing has focused on entertainment and positive messages. She worked in creative services at HBO and Showtime Networks.  She is a published Penguin Random House best-selling author of The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women and its accompanying workbook, and the critically acclaimed novel, Lemon City, and Playing by the Rules. She is currently writing her third novel, a faith-based historical fiction-fantasy.

 

Other writing includes the network show Happy New Year, America for CBS-TV, several health and wellness articles for Essence, sample scripts for The Cosby Show, Frank’s Place, Gula Gula Island, and an original anthology series, Five Points. She recently adapted Lemon City into a half-hour TV pilot with episodic descriptions and a show bible, registered by WGA (West), currently being shopped. She won a Literary Award from the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Literary Award.

 

While a Vice President at HBO, Elaine was the driving force behind developing the digital networks most acclaimed original content, Mary J. Blige at Constitution Hall, Stretch hosted by Angie Martinez, Zone Booth, Backpack, Chat Zone, the multi-award-winning Habla and El Perro Y El Gato series on HBO Latino, and Yuk, Frog Blues, Jammin’ Animals, and Buzz in the Bleachers, on HBO Family. As Creative Director at Showtime, Elaine Executive Produced shows to support Original Programming, including Inside Tina Turner’s Wildest Dreams that launched the Queen of Rock’s tour in Amsterdam.

 

Brown holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Reinhardt University, a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Drama from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and a Mini-MBA in Digital Marketing from Rutgers University. She completed the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the Cable Television and Marketing Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School, and the Breakthrough Leadership Program for female executives sponsored by the Time Warner and Simmons School of Management.

 

Elaine pays it forward by mentoring, public speaking, participating on panels, and in her daily interactions.

 

This creative being is writing and scriptwriting projects with positive messages to uplift, inform, touch the heart and spirit. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America (East), New York Women in Film and Television, Women’s Media Group, NY Media Initiative, and the National Association for Multi-Culturalism in Communications. Her extracurricular activities include yoga, Zumba, spin, weightlifting, hip-hop dance and Pilates. She regularly attends a non-denominational church in the New York City Metropolitan area.