Divine Intervention

Zina Ellis is one of those kids who put way too much effort into her high school English class projects. An Illinois native (not Chicago, the other part), she was a nice Midwestern girl until she joined a morally bankrupt sketch comedy group while attending Yale University. In this group, she discovered that she probably wouldn't immediately go to hell for saying the word "fuck". A true scammer, she graduated with a Theater Studies degree despite taking the same Musical Theatre Performance class 5 separate times, and after touring the world with her all-women's a cappella group (yup, she's one of those), she moved to New York to have her soul crushed even further. After years of doing theatre in weird basements for zero dollars, spending her tutoring-day-job money on UCB classes, touring with a production of Cinderella that she's actually really proud of, and then experiencing a global pandemic, she is branching out into writing for TV and film. Ideally, she would like to become one part Issa Rae and one part Audra McDonald, but at this point she would just be happy to be allowed to leave her home. Someday!