About Hilary
Hilary Van Hoose was most recently a staff writer for Barnyard Daycare at Nick Jr. Digital, where she previously staffed on the popular series Blue's Clues & You Nursery Rhymes. She has also written for a kids 6-11 animated series at TeamTO, an animated YouTube series aimed at the teenage girl audience, and an international 3D animated preschool series.
In addition to her screenwriting work, Hilary is a journalist and 2024 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship winner with articles about creativity, writing, entertainment, health and disability representation, and other topics published in several notable magazines and newspapers.
Hilary has recently participated in the Women in Animation Mentorship Circle Program, Children's Media Association Mentorship Program, 1IN4 Writers' Program, and Nicky Weinstock's Craft Services screenwriting initiative.
An Entertainment Lab Fellow AND Children's Content Lab selectee with Disability Belongs, she won the Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest and has placed in Sundance Episodic Lab, Austin Film Festival, and others.
Growing up a PWD and multi-heritage homeschooler in Northern California and Hawaii, Hilary studied to be a pastry chef before attending UC Santa Cruz and studying abroad at the UC Paris Center in France, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa as a Regent's Scholar with her B.A. in film and Digital Media Production.
After earning her M.F.A. in Film and Television Production from USC's School of Cinematic Arts with an emphasis in TV comedy that resulted in winning a Jack Oakie scholarship for excellence in comedy filmmaking, a couple of years alternating between development work at such companies as Amazon and Illumination Entertainment and post-production/archival work at such places as Bad Robot and NBC Universal led her to a role as producer-editor at a comedy club for a couple more years before she made the jump into to a career writing for children's series.
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