Ken Droz is a long time professional screenwriter and writing tutor after working many years in film publicity, including for the Writers Guild Foundation in Los Angeles, where he learned from the industry’s masters. Ken’s feature script TOPLESS was acquired by, and is in development at L.A.’s Symply Entertainment (Khalil Jibran’s The Prophet), and for which he was a 2015 Sundance Institute Detroit Screenwriting Fellow. For other scripts Ken was named Top Ten Screenwriting Finalist in both the PAGE and Writers Digest Awards. Ken started mentoring schoolchildren on their writing skills in Los Angeles before returning to his home state of Michigan where he now works predominantly with high school and college students on creative writing, class assignments and college application essays. Ken served as humor columnist for Detroit’s Northwest Gazette and Michigan Chronicle newspapers, and his freelance writing has appeared in Daily Variety, USA Today, Creative Screenwriting Magazine, The Detroit News, The Oakland Press and MLive.com. Prior to the film industry, Ken worked in pro sports, doing publicity for Detroit's famed Kronk Boxing Team of Emanuel Steward and world champion Thomas Hearns, in the North American Soccer League and the Continental Basketball Association.