Elyes Gabel, founder of Roughened Verse is an accomplished singer/songwriter and a successful actor/producer/director/writer in film and television. Elyes brings the same passion and enthusiasm with which he started during his teens to both his film and music career. Elyes’s over twenty year career in entertainment has showcased his dramatic range of characters, playing everything from a tough Philly homicide detective, to portraying one of the world’s real-life top computer geniuses. His diverse variety of work has given Elyes a wide-ranging career, fan base, and nominations from the National Television Awards and the Screen Actors Guild.  Working with talented filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan and J.C. Chandor early in his career helped pave the way for lead roles in television hits such as HBO’s Game of Thrones, CBS’s hit drama Scorpion, and Apple TV’s Suspicion. Trying his hand at directing, writing and producing with his latest project Game Show Hurt has been a natural progression from the other side of the camera, and the beginning of more projects yet to come.