Jonah Ansell is an award-winning MFA graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts and a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College, with a degree in political science.
He is the creator/producer of Rivalfish, Inc., a collegiate apparel company and humor magazine that he and his business partners sold to National Lampoon in February of 2008. He has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, PRWeek, AdWeek online and has been coined a "marketing genius," by the Chicago Tribune's Red Eye. As an undergraduate, he played NCAA baseball for four years and founded and served as editor-in-chief of The Hamster, a collegiate satire magazine. In 2006, he co-wrote/directed The Fish Fry a web TV sports satire pilot nominated by the Chicago Sun Times for a Chicago Innovation Award. In 2008, he wrote/produced the award-winning film First Bass, which played at over 25 festivals worldwide.
Jonah is currently highlighted in two books Living What You Love (Sterling) and HowI Scored That Gig (Random House).
His passions are: clever writing, cacophonous music, creative marketing, and the Chicago Cubs.
