Biography

Ed Vela was born in San Antonio, Texas. He began as an actor at the age of 18 on stage in San Antonio. He later moved to Houston, Texas, where he acted in more stage productions. In 1997, he began writing for the stage winning a few National Playwriting contests for both his full length and short plays. He has several plays and collections published by three different publishers, both in the U.S. and Canada. He moved to the Los Angeles area in 2008, to concentrate on writing screenplays. His first effort "The Future Force" winning the Grand Prize in the Action Adventure category at Screenplay Festival (www.screenplayfestival.com) International screen writing contest and was named Best in Genre (Sci-Fi) at the Richmond Film Festival.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ed Vela

And was most recently named Best Sci-Fi Screenplay at the Adbhooture Film Festival. His second screenplay "The Mortality Game" won a Platinum Remi Award from WorldFest Houston in 2015 and was a Semi-Finalist at the Austin Film Festival. It has also more recently won awards from film fests in Toronto, Indiana, Miami and India, as well as winning Best of Fest from the Cordillera Film Festival in Reno, Nevada. He also produced, wrote, directed, and starred in a web series he created that ran from 2012 to 2017: Dad vs. Lad on You Tube. Having spent several years in Los Angeles, Ed returned to Houston in 2014 for job opportunity but continued to churn out Dad vs. Lad webisodes as well as writing, producing and directing several short films. He returned to Burbank in 2018, and in 2019 wrote, produced and co-starred in the comedy short "The Confab."
- IMDb mini biography by: Ed Vela