Andrew Lewellen is a screenwriter, sportswriter, and copywriter based in Los Angeles, California.
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he grew up working at his father’s manufacturing company outside Detroit. After attending Wake Forest University—where he played Division I college soccer—he graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio with a degree in English and having helped transform a 1-15 soccer team into the #2 D3 team in the nation. Post-college, he worked as a barista in Oxford, England; a soccer coach in New York City and Ann Arbor; and a machinist for his father. Then he realized it was time to grow up and get real about life. So he decided to become a writer.
He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University, then moved to Chicago, where he supported his young family of four through the Great Recession by working as a copywriter and content strategist at advertising agencies. In 2011, he took a job with agency in Los Angeles and he and his wife hauled their children across the country and up a flight of sixty steps to a little tree house on a hillside in Silver Lake. A year later, he began working full-time as a freelance writer and content strategist.
As a sportswriter, he’s been a Contributing Writer for ESPN: The Magazine and a writer for NFL Media, and his sports journalims has appeared in ESPN.com, The New York Times, Grantland.com, and other national and regional outlets, and created a sports and true crime podcast, Fallen.
His TV pilots have won the UCLA Pilot competition, placed in leading contests and fellowship programs—including the PAGE Awards, the Austin Film Festival, and NBC Writers on the Verge Program—and been in consideration at NBC Universal, eOne, and HBO.
After spending the Pandemic living on a former cherry farm in rural northern Michigan, he returned to Los Angeles.
