Recommended Screenwriters

The beloved brainiac dog of the 60s, Mr. Peabody, returns for his very own feature film along with his son Sherman. The silly time travel movie with a heart-warming father and son story is not the typical subject matter for TV writer Craig Wright, who wrote Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Wright’s other credits include dark

ScreenwritingU Alum, Steve Hammon (ProSeries 11) landed another paid writing assignment, this time with actor/producer Kaushik Das. Das has hired Steve to write a script for a feature film. Steve was recommended to Kaushik by a producer he had worked with on a previous project.  Over the last few years, Steve has built a network of

ScreenwritingU Alum Anna M. Elias (PS 38) landed representation with Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo Helin Literary Management Italia Gandolfo will represent Anna’s screenwriting career as well as her novels.  Currently Anna is developing a film adaptation for an attached A-list actor/director, based on a book they’ve optioned. Anna got her start in film production, working

ScreenwritingU Alum Anastazja Davis (ProSeries 43) had her original, historical action screenplay optioned by producer Mitchell Waxman. The script is based on a true story of a woman who defied cultural restrictions and became the head of an empire. Previous to this success, Anastazja was been hired to write multiple projects including an action film

Every have a friend in your group who was so annoying that you didn’t know if you could be friends anymore? Writer/director Rob Pearlstein has. And he wrote a movie about it. “The truth is I have more than one [Barry],” said Pearlstein. “I had this realization that I have people in my life who

Writer Joe Weisberg knows a lot about being a spy. He used to be one. The former CIA officer is now the showrunner of the hit drama The Americans. Set in the 1980s during the height of the Cold War, The Americans centers on a married couple (played by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) who

ScreenwritingU Alum Frances Presley-Rice (ProSeries 32, MSC 2) has teamed with Producer Bayer L. Mack of Block Starz Music Television as an Executive Producer, along with Hal Croasmum, to produce a documentary on Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux (1884-1951) was the first major African-American feature filmmaker.   He was the most successful black filmmaker of the first half of the twentieth century

How do you go from script to producer to actors…and end up on Comedy Network?  Those are a few of the questions I ask ScreenwritingU Alum Anthony Giunta about his first movie — that came from his first script! We also talked about what made this screenplay special, what it was like to direct the

ScreenwritingU Alum Rick Fass (ProSeries 37) has his teen comedy "PARTY-IN-CHIEF" optioned by producer Rob Gallagher of Gallagher Literary Management. The  producer contacted Rick to work with him on the project after receiving a favorable review of the script. The project is currently in development. Great Job, Rick!

ScreenwritingU Alum Don Macnab-Stark (ProSeries 6) has been hired by producer Stephen Wallis to write the pilot episode for a UK made TV show, Poppy's Fields, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock; Star Trek – Into Darkness.) Poppy's Fields is a heart-warming comedy set in a rural retirement home in England, starring the largest A-list cast