ADAM 2014-A book written by Schrag about a awkward teenager who is sent to New York City by his parents to join his sister. The story dives into the summer of 2006; a year of gay marriage demonstrations and the rise of trans gender rights. When Adam meets a girl named Casey who throws herself into that scene Adam is soon involved with lesbians, undergound clubs, drinking, and older women.
Awkward and Definition -This book is analysised further later on in the blog.
Potential - A continuence of Schrag's passage through high school. This book follows her junior year at Berkeley High School and recounts her first real relationship and first-time love with a girl, and her quest to lose her virginity to a boy, as well as her parents divorce. The book brings us through her personal and social complications of writing about her own life.
Likewise -The concluding novel about her trip through High School. This book takes us through the final terrifying and liberating high school year; senior year. Schrag deals with her past relationships, her parents new relationsips, and her anxiety about the future.
Stuck in the Middle 2007-Edited by Schrag this work examines the horrors of Middle School, but features contributions by many other authors including Ariel herself (much like Awkward and Definition)
Ariel and Kevin Invade Everything -Schrag co-writes this webcomic that covers various ridiculous adventures of two best friends. The link below includes a clip of Ariel and Kevin on the Mike and Judy Show. On this show they cover how they met and how they built a webcomic based on how the two of them try to pick up girls at bars.
http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/2903-The-Mike-Judy-Show-Episode-54-Invade-Everything-with-Kevin-Seccia-and-Ariel-Schrag
Sinful Cynthia -A 'choose-your-own-adventure' co-written by Schrag where you're mind is put into a world of strippers, serial kills, naughty nurses, and crooked cops. This is 18 and over only.
*Schrag is currently working on a collection of short comics. The comics will be a mix of fiction and autobiography.
Film & TV
Ariel Schrag is currently working on the screen adaption for her book, Potential, for a major motion picture by executive producers Killer Films.
Schrag contributed to the HBO series How to Make It In America by being a writer for Season 2. This series follows two young men who try to succeed in NYC's fashion scene.
She was a writer for Showtime's hit series, The L-word, during season three and four.
Confession: A Film about Ariel Schrag is a short documentary about Schrag directed by Sharon Barnes.
Ariel Schrag has also been known to play a character or two. She has placed Inanna in the short film Inanna and the Huluppu Tree. This is a short film by Molly Axtmann that tells the story of the Goddess Inanna's struggles to create her throne and become queen of Heaven and Earth. Schrag also plays Mabrl the Hunchback in Fighter, a film directed by Sharon Barnes. This film tells the story of an oil wrestler who uses her prize money to enter herself into a Christian conversion program in order to get her girlfriend out.
Art:
Ariel Schrag produces her own illustrations and comics and has appeared in many publications outside her own, such as; The San Fransisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, The Willage Voice, Juxtapoz, and Paper. Schrag's original artwork has also appeared in museums and galleries across the United States as well as in Austria, Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Other:
Schrag is a jack of all trades. Along with being a writter, actor, and artist, Schrag has also done live performances, and is a teacher. While Schrag has performed across the country she has taught the course Graphic Novel Workshop since 2004 in the writing department at The New School. She also teaches classes at Brown University, New York University, Butler University, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Intersection for the Arts.
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