Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014."Enemy biggest movie winner at Canadian Screen Awards". Toronto Star, March 9, 2014.
His other screenwriting credits include MVP: Most Vertical Primate and Fury."Mastai's screenwriting". The Province, August 21, 2014. He has described The F Word as the first time he wrote a screenplay in his own voice, rather than to the commercial demands of a mass-audience film."The F Word gave screenwriter chance to use his own voice". The Globe and Mail, August 22, 2014.
He was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia,"A wild ride for F Word's screenwriter; B.C. native 'dropped into deep end' of Hollywood while in grad school". Ottawa Citizen, August 22, 2014. to a Canadian mother and an Israeli immigrant father. Both his parents are Jewish, and they met in Jerusalem."Elan Mastai taps family history for F Word". The Jewish Independent, August 22, 2014. He studied film at Queen's University"Film studies students screen short features". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 29, 1996. and Concordia University.
In 2015, Mastai secured a $1.25 million deal for his debut novel, All Our Wrong Todays."Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Screenwriter's Debut Fetches Seven Figures". Publishers Weekly, October 8, 2015. A science fiction novel, the book concerns a man from an alternate history utopia who, while part of a time travel experiment, causes a drastic alteration of his history, and regains consciousness in our society. The novel was published on February 7, 2017."The Week in Reading: The Best New Book Releases for February 7, 2017". Newsweek, February 7, 2017. In 2017 he was described as working on a screenplay for All Our Wrong Todays, and working on a second novel.
Mastai was the supervising producer and staff writer of NBC's This Is Us.
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