Who is ellis on the show smash

The perfect assistant! Not for long. The eavesdropping! Oh, the eavesdropping. In one of the most recent episodes, he ably whips up a kale smoothie. Young people, always with their computers and their smoothies, am I right?

He demands credit for every little thing he does. Early in the pilot, Ellis vaguely suggests veteran musical writing team Tom and Julia Debra Messing consider a musical about Marilyn Monroe. From there, the successful pros mull it over and get to work writing snappy songs, devising character arcs, laboring over plot mechanics, courting a top producer, and, well, doing all the difficult, expert work it takes the launch a Broadway musical.

Meanwhile, Ellis picks up the dry cleaning. Later, when Ellis helps pull in a big movie star to play Marilyn — an admittedly smooth move — he develops Samantha Brick—level delusions. His mother got him his job. Because of course he did. Like mother, like son. But he oversteps his bounds enough to earn chastisements from both Tom and Eileen. And he makes plenty of mistakes.

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Ellis Boyd. Edit source History Talk 0. Season 1 First shown in the Pilot , he was an assistant to composer Tom Levitt , who was starting a new project with Julia Houston based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Season 2 Ellis was shown to be communicating with Jerry Rand in regards to Eileen and her relationship with Nick so that Jerry could receive producer rights to the musical. He currently lives in Williamsburg. Cancel Save.