Two-time Emmy Award and Peabody-winning filmmaker and Professor of Professional Practice Trey Ellis wrote for and served as a consulting producer on the new Amazon Prime series, Hotel Costiera.
Hotel Costiera is currently the #2 most-watched series on Amazon Prime Video in the United States. A fusion of action and comedy, the series follows ex-marine Daniel De Luca, played by Jesse Williams, who arrives as a fixer at one of the world's most luxurious hotels on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. A mystery unfurls as Daniel deals with the wealthy patrons of the hotel and follows the trail of Alice, a girl gone missing.
Ellis co-wrote the teleplay for episode three of the series, “April.” April, like Daniel De Luca, is an ex-marine who arrives at the hotel looking for Daniel's help. She has recently lost a bracelet containing sensitive data and throughout the episode, the pair try to find out what happened to the bracelet and how to get it back. Meanwhile, each episode leads De Luca and his closer to Alice.
Ellis is a two-time Emmy Award and Peabody winning filmmaker, American Book Award winning novelist, and NAACP Image award winning playwright. His screenplay Holy Mackerel! is one of the highest ever rated on Franklin Leonard’s Black List.com. Some of his other screenplays include the Peabody Award-winning The Tuskegee Airmen for HBO and Good Fences for Showtime, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the PEN award for Best Teleplay. His works have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the novels Platitudes, Home Repairs, and Right Here, Right Now, as well as the memoir Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, and Vanity Fair. His play, Fly, was commissioned by the Lincoln Center Institute and continues to be performed around the country including Washington, D.C.’s Ford’s Theater, the Pasadena Playhouse, and the New Victory Theater in New York. He is currently in rehearsals for a musical on the life of Dorothy Dandridge for which he wrote the book and is co-writer of the lyrics. A night of the music from the musical was performed at Carnegie Hall.
See a trailer for Hotel Costiera here.
