---
name: "Aja Gabel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aja-gabel"
fi1m_id: "aja-gabel"
imdb_id: "nm3798172"
tmdb_id: 2954613
wikidata_id: "Q138789699"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T00:27:43.135442+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aja Gabel

## Identity

Aja Gabel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aja-gabel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aja-gabel
- **IMDb ID:** nm3798172
- **TMDB ID:** 2954613
- **Wikidata ID:** Q138789699
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138789699, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3798172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2954613

Writer. Born 1 January 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1984
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138789699, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3798172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2954613

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Sunny*](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aja Gabel is a novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of the novels *The Ensemble* (2018) and *Lightbreakers* (2025). Her short story 'Little Fish' was adapted into a feature film in 2020.

Gabel studied writing at Wesleyan University and the University of Virginia, and holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. She has worked as a screenwriter and story editor on the series *The Staircase* (2022) and *Sunny* (2024), and is credited as a writer on *The Devil's Mouth* (2026) and *The Five Star Weekend* (2026). She lives in Los Angeles.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, imdb.com, dublinliteraryaward.ie.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sunny* (2024), Fi1m 64, Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *The Staircase* (2022), Fi1m 75, Other — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Devil's Mouth* (2026), Writer
- *The Five Star Weekend* (2026), series, Writer
- *Sunny* (2024), series, Story Editor, Writer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/sunny.md)
- *The Staircase* (2022), series, as Other — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md)
- *Little Fish* (2021), Short Story, Co-Producer

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