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BIO
SAGE WELLS is a former teacher and playwright from a small farming community in the Central Valley of California. She spent a year researching indigenous arts and culture in Indonesia while at UC Santa Barbara, studied playwriting at Emerson College, and earned an MFA in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. She is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist and her directorial debut, the pandemic short film, HELPER, is currently making the festival rounds. She works on set as a studio teacher for children in entertainment, and lives and writes in the mountains of Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons.