JEFFREY YOHALEM

Narrative Director | Square Enix | Canada

With a successful career as Lead Scriptwriter, Videogame Designer and Director at Ubisoft Montreal, Jeffrey is currently Narrative Director at Square Enix.

After graduating cum laude from Yale University with honors in English Literature, Jeffrey worked as writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and filmed and directed the documentary Human Eaters. Then he joined the Ubisoft Montreal studio, wrote on Assassin's Creed II and went on to win the U.S. Writers Guild Award as lead writer of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. He then became the lead writer of Far Cry 3, co-created and wrote Child of Light, and, most recently, was lead writer of Assassin's Creed Syndicate.

Participation in El Festival:

• Talk: Writing for interactive worlds | More