It will be directed by Rose Troche, and filming is expected to begin this summer. Her book Potential – about her junior year in high school – was recently picked up by Killer Films.
And her two years on The L Word aren’t the last you’ll see of her work in Hollywood. Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics From an Unpleasant Age, an anthology she edited, is due out this month from Viking. It was during her senior year there that director Sharon Barnes filmed the documentary Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag, which won the NewFest Audience Award in 2004 and later aired on PBS.
Each book in the series examines a year in Schrag’s high school experience, including stories about intricate friendships and crushes, smoking pot in her bedroom, her parents’ divorce and the process of coming out as bisexual, and then as a lesbian.Īfter graduation, Schrag attended Columbia University to study English Literature. And Schrag started her thriving career young – she began as a teenager growing up in Berkeley, Calif., when she scrupulously documented her life in the autobiographical comic books Awkward, Definition, Potential and Likewise.Īt a time when most people are painfully self-conscious and protective, Schrag exposed herself with an honesty and sharpness that captured the attention of underground comics and eventually led to a publishing deal with Slave Labor Graphics. At 27 years old, writer and cartoonist Ariel Schrag has published four comic books, penned a big-screen adaptation of one of them, been the subject of a documentary and been a staff writer on Showtime’s The L Word for two seasons.
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