Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay

Jody Lipes

Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay
Region: Doylestown, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Jody Lee Lipes worked on his first feature length screenplay, the Shaker drama Confederacy, which was selected for the 2011 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Lipes also directed and shot season one of HBO's Girls. She resides in New York City.

Studios

Wood

Jody Lipes worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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