Exciting News: My TV Pilot/Series "Dance Hall Girls" was chosen as a Top 50 Finalist for the 2020 International Screenwriters' Association Fast Track Fellowship! (It is listed here under My Screenplays.)
You can view my full background on my website, YourWritingMuse.com, but in short as a writer I have had:
• 16 plays produced (all for teens, children, and family-based audiences)
• 4 screenplays optioned (3 were romantic comedies, 1 was a "who-done-it" drama/thriller)
• 1 TV show optioned (a news/doc. half hour show)
• Animal Motions, a children's picture book and app published (book published by Indigo River Publishing, app published by Authorly)
• Sergeant Stubby in the Great War, a historical fiction novella published for 4th grade and up
• Have ghostwritten, edited, done research for, and helped market over 12 books with authors from Los Angeles to New York City (both fiction and non-fiction)
• Worked in Los Angeles as a writer-for-hire for many independent producers and at studios (including Martin Sheen's ESP Productions at Warner Brothers Studios)
• Was hired to write an animated feature film treatment (which included a lot of in-depth research)
• Have had articles published in Script magazine, InkTip.com's newsletter, and Scriptapalooza's newsletter
• Have been a judge in 2 screenwriting contests: CineStory's Screenwriting Competition in Chicago (for 2 years) and The Kingman Films International Screenwriting Competition in L.A. (for 1 year)
• Have been hired as a ghostwriter, script coach, editor, and researcher in all mediums
Other Work-Related Experience:
• I was the Artistic Director for The Sheil Park Players Theater in Chicago for 5 years (I produced and directed 22 original shows, all from writing workshops I ran which helped launch several playwrights' plays that went on to N.Y.C. and London theaters).
