The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Page Getz Ellinger, MFA. Page’s graduate thesis is a television series entitled KRAK Radio.
Page Getz Ellinger is a journalist and activist from Kansas and California. She’s reported for the Los Angeles Times, Pacifica Radio, FSRN and NPR. Her work appears in Tidal Basin Review, Vermillion, Spectrum, Whistling Fire and forthcoming issues of Apricity Magazine and Atlanta Review, as a 2022 International Poetry Contest finalist. At UBC she served as a New Shoots anthology co-editor and mentor. An alumni of UCLA’s Screenwriting Professional Program, her pilot, Stardrift Road, was a quarter-finalist in the 2023 Shore Scripts Pilot Competition. Her epistolary novel, Goodnight, Kansas, is slated for release by Sourcebooks in Spring 2025.
Page’s TV series, KRAK Radio, is a Sorkin-paced political dramedy inspired by real events and real delusion. Addis Maxfield, an idealistic reporter trying to escape addiction, volunteers at a tree-hugging community radio station in Hollywood, convinced she can stop the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As she tries to prove herself in the newsroom she finds community among the wingnut staff, but they face fledging fund drives, spook infiltration and a hippie-hating manager determined to downsize. KRAK Radio is the unheard West Wing of working class radicals at a moment that mirrors today’s ideological war. It’s funny and it’s not funny, but it’s funny.
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