- Skye Dent, who received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2007, is the daughter of a Central American homemaker and a Black Cherokee railroad cook who fell in love in the French Quarters of New Orleans. She began her professional career as a full-time journalist for both the print and broadcast media. She was a staff writer for The Associated Press in Boston, The Cape Cod Times, and Root Magazine in London. Subsequently, Skye ventured into broadcast journalism by writing for CBS Evening News in New York City. Skye made her entrance into entertainment writing by relocating to California to be a year-long Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellow in 1992, where she specialized in writing high concept, broad appeal features.
However, she obtained her first credited writing job when she wrote the fourth episode of the first season of the UPN TV hit, Star Trek: Voyager and created the alien race, the Vidiens. During the 1997-98 season, Skye was a staff writer for The Burning Zone, an hour-long dramatic series produced by Universal Television/UPN and sold the firefighting suspense film Searing Notes to Touchstone.
In 1999, she wrote the movie Maestro for Showtime. Her screenplays include a supernatural suspense called Aftermath (based on her novel of the same title) and a father-son, auto-racing action drama called The Brickyard.
She also wrote-produced five documentaries for The Discovery Channel and AMC. These include Phobias, Baffin Island, Universal Studios, and Fireflash. She's written-directed 12 commercials for The Discovery Channel and Paramount Studios, written numerous screenplays and produced the 2001 short action film, 'Rogue'.
Skye developed two series, a hip, sassy, dramatic comedy in development, and a procedural police drama based upon work she performed with a homicide unit.
She and actor Dennis Haysbert are producing a Kenya-based romantic epic that she wrote and that he will star in. She is developing a romantic comedy called Ex Appeal. And she has optioned the remake rights to the 1970s Sidney Poitier film, A Warm December.
Skye, a WGA member sans agent, is a longtime medical and law enforcement volunteer. She also teaches a TV development class at the CBS Radford Lot.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Skye Dent - Although many people think that Skye was the naturally smart sibling, the real reason that Skye won scholarships to a prestigious high school and then institutions of higher learning such as Brown and NYU Tisch is due to the knowledge she garnered during the years in which she hid out in the Boston Public Library after the murder of her older teenage brother Clayton.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Skye Dent
- Race / EthnicityBlack / African American, Hispanic / Latino / Latina / Latine, Indigenous
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