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Lesley Harter

(She/Her/Hers)

Screenwriter

Biography

My life often sounds like fiction to those who weren't there.  My mom was an ex-starlet, my dad a politician, and yes, there was a lot of speculation about her past and his future.  As it turned out, my dad wasn't going to have much of a future; he died when I was seven. A few months later, my mother changed the course of her future and mine by moving us to Europe and, eventually, marrying an Italian prince. 

I was seventeen when I returned to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.  Within months I had dropped out of college and, with little funds and even less desire to get a job, I found myself living in the city’s grittiest neighborhoods; replacing my ‘finishing school’ friends with hookers, junkies and other members of the disenfranchised. My attraction to street life ebbed years ago, but the juxtaposition of extreme power and hand-to-mouth poverty still fascinates me and shows up in much of my writing.

​​​After an abbreviated acting career and a one-year stint as a beachcomber, I scored a job working for a group of California​ radio stations where I learned the finer points of marketing, promotions, and Hard Rock. After more than a decade in radio, both on-air and off, I started JOEY, an experiential marketing agency.  I’ve developed marketing campaigns and written commercials for over one hundred brands including McDonald's, Sobe, Ford, EA, and HTC.  

In 2016, I graduated from ScreenwritingU's ProSeries and have been writing screenplays ever since.  There are currently Shopping Agreements on a TV Series and Feature that I wrote and I just completed work on a TV Pilot for Ascendant Studios.

 

My life often sounds like fiction to those who weren't there.  My mom was an ex-starlet, my dad a politician, and yes, there was a lot of speculation about her past and his future.  As it turned out, my dad wasn't going to have much of a future; he died when I was seven. A few months later, my mother changed the course of her future and mine by moving us to Europe and, eventually, marrying an Italian prince. 

I was seventeen when I returned to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.  Within months I had dropped out of college and, with little funds and even less desire to get a job, I found myself living in the city’s grittiest neighborhoods; replacing my ‘finishing school’ friends with hookers, junkies and other members of the disenfranchised. My attraction to street life ebbed years ago, but the juxtaposition of extreme power and hand-to-mouth poverty still fascinates me and shows up in much of my writing.

​​​After an abbreviated acting career and a one-year stint as a beachcomber, I scored a job working for a group of California​ radio stations where I learned the finer points of marketing, promotions, and Hard Rock. After more than a decade in radio, both on-air and off, I started JOEY, an experiential marketing agency.  I’ve developed marketing campaigns and written commercials for over one hundred brands including McDonald's, Sobe, Ford, EA, and HTC.  

In 2016, I graduated from ScreenwritingU's ProSeries and have been writing screenplays ever since.  There are currently Shopping Agreements on a TV Series and Feature that I wrote and I just completed work on a TV Pilot for Ascendant Studios.

 

Projects (7)

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KillerCon
Feature
  • Comedy .
  • Crime .
  • Dramedy
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THE CONFESSION
Television (One-hour)
  • Crime .
  • Drama .
  • Mystery/Suspense
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TAINTED
Feature
  • Crime .
  • Mystery/Suspense .
  • Thriller
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THE GRAND
Television (Half-hour)
  • Comedy
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