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SKYE KNIGHT DENT
Skye Knight Dent, a 2007 MFA grad from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, is the daughter of a Belizean homemaker and a Black Native American railroad cook who fell in love in the French Quarters of New Orleans.
She began her professional writing career as a full-time print journalist (The Cape Cod Times, The San Bernardino Sun and Root Magazine in London) and subsequently ventured into broadcast journalism after being wooed to CBS Evening News in New York City.
Skye made her entrance into fiction entertainment writing by winning a year-long Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship. She obtained her first writing credit when she wrote the fourth episode of the first season of the UPN hit, "Star Trek: Voyager” (1995) and created the alien race, the Vidiens. During the 97-98 TV season, Skye was a staff writer for "The Burning Zone", an hour-long dramatic series produced by Universal, and sold the firefighting suspense film “Searing Notes” to Touchstone.
In 2000, she wrote the movie “Maestro” for Showtime. Hearst Ent. optioned her original television movie. Her spec screenplays include the supernatural suspense “Aftermath” (based on her novel of the same title) and a father-son, auto-racing action drama called “The Brickyard” She has also written-produced many 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, produced the action short 'Rogue'.
Skye recently developed a hip, sassy, TV dramatic comedy series called “Oyster Times”, a police drama series (based on her volunteer police rescue background) called “Back Bay”, a romantic comedy feature film called “Split,” and a sci-fi film noir feature called “Lake Merritt.”
She recently optioned the remake rights to a 1980s Sidney Poitier starrer film, that she plans to produce.
She is a writing instructor with the NYU William H. Cosby Future Filmmakers Workshop-2007 and an adjunct writing professor at College of the Canyons and National University. She maintains her journalism status by writing as a correspondent for the prestigious Boston Globe newspaper, The Hartford Courant, Documentary Magazine and various other major publications.
Skye has a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. in Journalism from The University of Missouri at Columbia, and a MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Art (2007). She’s an active member of the WGA, National Association of Journalists, Women in Film, IFP, and The New Leaders. She’s a regular volunteer with the Crisis Response Team, Harlem Hospital, The N.Y. Marathon First Aide Stations, A Better Chance, The Humanitas Awards, L.A. Works and the WGA.
Most recently, she obtained her professional CPR card, received her California gun permit, and started EMT training, all in preparation for the apocalypse or defense against terrorist action (whichever comes first).
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