Cecil Seaskull
| Cecil Castellucci | |
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Castellucci at WonderCon 2017
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Cecil Seaskull |
| Born |
October 25, 1969 New York City, NY, USA |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, singer, director |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2005–present (as writer) |
| Associated acts | Bite, Nerdy Girl |
| Website | www |
Cecil C. Castellucci (born October 25, 1969 in New York City), also known as Cecil Seaskull, is an American-born Canadian young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California
Castellucci grew up in New York City where she attended the Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts. She later studied theatre in Paris at the École Florent. She attended Concordia University in Montreal and received a B.F.A. in Film Production.
In Montreal she embarked on her music career as part of Bite, which was then the only all-female indie band in Montreal. When she was kicked out of Bite, she formed Nerdy Girl with Gordon Hashimoto. When Hashimoto left, she joined with Rod Woo, Gabe Levine, and Kim Temple to continue the band. After recording their only album Twist Her, Levine and Temple left the group, and Jessica Moss and Eric Craven took their places. She later moved to Los Angeles after Nerdy Girl broke up for good, and she recorded solo under her performing name, Cecil Seaskull.
In 2001 she co-founded the experimental *Alpha 60 Film Collective with Neil Matsumoto and Nick McCarthy.
Castellucci's first novel, Boy Proof, was published in 2005.
Castellucci's first novels were published by Candlewick Press. She has also been published by Scholastic Press, DC Comics and Roaring Brook Press
Boy Proof is a 2005 novel about a girl in Los Angeles named Victoria Jurgen, who insists on being called "Egg" after a character in her favorite movie, a (fictional) post-apocalyptic, science fiction film called Terminal Earth. Her mother is a washed-up actress and her father is special-effects designer. She is a card-carrying geek and considers herself "boy proof", and proud of it. However, her outlook on life is challenged when a boy named Max Carter comes to her school and she finds herself reluctantly drawn to him.
It was named to the 2006 Best Books for Young Adults list by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association (ALA) as well as to the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list (also by YALSA).
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