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A Partial List Of Writers, Writer-Directors, and Writer-Producers
Who Have Agreed To Appear At The 2008 Screenwriting Expo
(Also see the Guests of Honor list)
This page is a PARTIAL
LISTING, provided as an illustration
for registrants who have asked that we include more currently working
writers on the program. It is not intended to be, and will
not be, a complete list of all the writers on the program.
This page is also a work in early stages of progress.
If you are a writer on the
program, and your name isn't listed here, please don't get mad.
Just write to webmaster@screenwritingexpo.com
telling us what we should list you for.
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Aline Brosh McKenna
Aline Brosh McKenna is most famous for writing the 2006 adaptation of
The Devil Wears Prada, which grossed over $125 million at the box
office. She also wrote the 2008 hit 27 Dresses as well as the romantic
comedies Laws of Attraction and Three to Tango.
Barry Levy
Barry Levy wrote the 2008 thriller Vantage Point, which starred Matthew
Fox, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Forrest Whitaker. He is currently
working on the big-screen adaptation of the hit TV show Kung-Fu.
Bill Marsilii
Bill Marsilii co-wrote (with his friend Terry
Rossio) the romantic time-travel spec Deja Vu, which sold to Jerry
Bruckheimer and Touchstone Pictures in June 2004 for $5 million in a
pre-emptive bid. Starring Denzel Washington and directed by Tony Scott,
the film opened Thanksgiving 2006 and went on to gross over $180
million worldwide. An accomplished comedy writer/performer, His
television work includes writing and starring in two comedy pilots for
the Hallmark Channel, as well as several episodes of The Wubbulous
World of Dr. Seuss and Courage the Cowardly Dog, all of which only
serve to confuse people. He has also written feature scripts for The
Samuel Goldwyn Company, TriStar, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures.
Last year, Bill sold an action-adventure pitch to Walt Disney Pictures,
which is currently out to directors, and is now writing another sci-fi
spec with Terry Rossio.
Coleman Hough
Coleman Hough wrote the screenplays for Full Frontal and Bubble, both
directed by Steven Soderbergh. She wrote a script for HBO on the life
of Katharine Graham, former publisher of the Washington Post. Her most
recent screen credit is an adaptation of the novel, Into the Great Wide
Open by Kevin Canty. She has recently returned to Los Angeles after
living 10 years in Brooklyn. In New York she is best known for
performing her monologues, The Ugly Sister, Natural Disaster, and She's
No Expert.
Ellen Sandler
Ellen Sandler is an Emmy nominated television writer/producer. She was
Co-Executive Producer of the CBS hit Everybody Loves Raymond, and the
popular ABC series Coach as well as 25 prime time sitcoms. Ellen has
created pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Family, Disney, Oxygen and the
Australian Broadcasting Company. She is the author of The TV Writers
Workbook: A Creative Approach to Television Scripts, published by
Bantam/Dell. She was a Star Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 5.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Gina Prince-Bythewood wrote and directed the widely-acclaimed feature film
"Love & Basketball" which premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. She
won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and a Humanitas Prize
for her work on the film. Her other credits include writing on the TV
shows, "Felicity" and "A Different World," among others. She also wrote and
directed the Fox Searchlight film, "The Secret Life of Bees," which
premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and will be released this fall.
James Dalessandro
James Dalessandro is a 23-year veteran of the WGA whose novel and
screenplay "1906", an epic of the great San Francisco Earthquake, is
being directed by The Incredibles’ Brad Bird and will be
Pixar’s first live-action release. He is also author and
screenwriter of "Citizen Jane" for Wolper Productions/Warner Brothers
Television, the story of a Marin County woman who has solved 20 cold
case murders, and writer/director/producer of the documentary film,
"The Damnedest, Finest Ruins." Lew Hunter, co-Dean of the UCLA
Screenwriting program, calls him one of the best screenwriting
lecturers in the world. He lives in San Francisco.
Karen Lutz & Kirsten Smith
Karen Lutz and Kirsten Smith are one of the most prolific and
successful female writing teams in Hollywood. They wrote the hit comedy
Legally Blonde, and this year’s hit The House Bunny. Their
screenplay, Bride Wars, is currently filming with Anne Hathaway and
Kate Hudson on board as co-stars. Their latest project, The Ugly Truth,
starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, which they are also
executive producing, began shooting in April. On the film front,
Karen's independent drama, Long Time Gone, starring Christina Ricci
will go before cameras this summer, and she is readying the feature
film adaptation of The Bachlorette Party. Kirsten's first film as a
producer, Whip It!, starring Ellen Page and to be directed by Drew
Barrymore goes into production this year for Mandate Pictures. Kirsten
is also developing a slate of other projects as well. Karen and Kirsten
got their start as screenwriters in 1997 by selling 10 Things I Hate
About You which starred then-unknowns Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles.
Their other credits include the fantasy comedy Ella Enchanted, starring
Anne Hathaway and She's the Man, an update of "Twelfth Night" starring
Amanda Bynes.
Katherine Fugate
Katherine Fugate created the Lifetime hit Army Wives in 2007, on which she
also served as the executive producer. She is currently writing the script
Valentine's Day for director Garry Marshall and New Line Cinema, which is
scheduled to shoot in January, 2009. She also wrote the films The Prince &
Me for Paramount and Carolina for Miramax. Katherine was recently named on
Variety's annual Women's Impact Issue.
Melissa Rosenberg
A TV veteran since 1993, Melissa Rosenberg gained a new and impassioned
fanbase when she was hired to write the adaptation of 2008’s
Twilight, the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s wildy popular
young-adult novel. When she’s not adapting popular vampire
novels, Meyer is a writer and co-executive producer on Showtime’s
acclaimed series Dexter. She was also a producer and writer on The O.C.
and has written episodes for a variety of shows that include Ally
McBeal, Party of Five, Birds of Prey, and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman,
among others.
Paul Guay
Paul Guay's movies have grossed over half a billion dollars. He
conceived and co-wrote Liar, Liar, at the time of its release the
sixth-highest-grossing comedy in history, the fourth-highest-grossing film
of the year, the second-highest-grossing film of Jim Carrey's career, and
Imagine's highest-grossing film ever. The screenplay received an Honorable
Mention (along with Fargo, Million Dollar Baby, The Full Monty and Catch Me
If You Can) in Scr(i)pt magazine's list of the Best Scripts of the Past 10
Years. Paul co-wrote The Little Rascals, Universal's
second-highest-grossing film of the year; co-wrote Heartbreakers, starring
Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman and Jason Lee, which
opened #1 at the box office, and the rights to which he co-licensed to MGM
for production as a stage musical; and wrote On a Pale Horse for Disney and
Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, based on Book One of the eight-volume
"Incarnations of Immortality" series by New York Times-bestselling author
Piers Anthony. Paul also polished a draft of The NeverEnding Story and
co-polished Mouse Hunt. He is a former consultant to World Wrestling
Entertainment. Paul has opened a new business and is now doing formally
what he's been doing informally for years -- Script Consultation www.LetsSchmooze.com/PaulGuay.html
Richard Price
Richard Price has a varied career that spans both the small and big
screen. For the past few years, he was a writer on HBO’s
acclaimed series The Wire. Before that, he worked in features, penning
the screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money, Spike
Lee’s Clockers, and Ron Howard’s Ransom. He also wrote the
2000 version of Shaft, 1993’s Mad Dog and Glory and 2006’s
Freedomland, which he adapted from his own novel.
Richard LaGravenese
An Oscar, Emmy, and WGA nominee, Richard LaGravenese is most famous for
penning Terry Gilliam’s 1991 film The Fisher King. As a writer,
he is behind the scripts for The Mirror Has Two Faces, A Little
Princess, Beloved, and The Horse Whisperer among many others. In 1998,
he moved into directing his own scripts, culminating in the 2007
film’s Freedom Writers and P.S. I Love You.
Stephanie Sengupta
A member of the Law & Order family for over seven years, Stephanie
Sengupta has written 23 episodes for the franchise total. 19 of them
came during her run on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where she
eventually became a co-executive producer. She currently holds that
same title on the flagship show, where she penned four episodes for
last season.
Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes has 20 novels in print, and has written for Twilight
Zone, Andromeda, and Stargate SG-I. He has lectured at UCLA, the Maui
Writers' Workshop, MENSA, USC, and the Smithsonian. Winner of the 2003
Endeavor Award for his novel Lion's Blood, Barnes also wrote the
Emmy-winning Outer Limits episode "A Stitch in Time." He was a STAR
Speaker of the last three Screenwriting Expos.
Stephen Susco
Over the past twelve years, Stephen Susco has written and sold over
thirty scripts and pitches to New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers,
Dimension, Miramax, Universal, Sony, United Artists, Lionsgate, Rogue
Pictures and Paramount Studios, and has written for a variety of
acclaimed directors and producers (including Mike Nichols, Taylor
Hackford, Quentin Tarantino, Ted Demme and Sam Raimi). His first
produced Film, the Grudge, which was made for under $10 million,
grossed almost $200 million worldwide in its theatrical
release. His latest film, Red (starring Brian Cox and Tom
Sizemore) recently premiered at the Sundance Film festival, and will be
released theatrically on August 8th.
Stephen is currently prepping his directorial debut, and is creating a
new series based on the film Flatliners for Sony Pictures Television
and producer Michael Douglas. He is also producing three of his
other scripts: the Dybbuk Box, with Sam Raimi; High School, which
begins production in Fall 2008; and SANCTUARY (based on the novel Bad
Men by John Connolly), which will be directed by John Stockwell
(Turistas, into the Blue).
Tina Andrews
Tina Andrews won a WGA award for writing the highly rated, critically
acclaimed CBS miniseries, "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal," based
on her play, "The Mistress of Monticello." She also wrote the Warner
Brothers film, "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" and co-wrote the CBS
miniseries, "Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis," and served as
Co-Executive producer. She is scheduled to write and Co-Executive
produce "The O.Z," an updated, hip-hop version of the Wizard of Oz.
TJ Lynch
TJ Lynch won a Nicholl Fellowship for his screenplay The Beginning of
Wisdom. The screenplay also won the Scriptwriter's Network Carl Sautter
Memorial Scriptwriting Competition. It was also a Finalist in the
Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, the ABC/Disney Fellowship and the
Slamdance Film Festival Screenplay Competition. He and his producing partner
are setting up the project to shoot in the summer of '09, with TJ directing.
To fulfill his Nicholl Fellowship obligation, he wrote the screenplay that
became the movie A Plumm Summer. The screenplay was a Finalist in the Final
Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition. A low budget indie family film set
in his home state of Montana, A Plumm Summer stars Henry Winkler, William
Baldwin, and Brenda Strong, with narration by Jeff Daniels. It came out in
limited release this April of '08, and will be released on DVD in the near
future. TJ does screenplay consultation on a limited basis when time
permits. For info and lots of screenwriting tips, visit
www.writingisrewriting.com
Tony Blake
Tony Blake is a veteran writer-executive producer with over 20 years of
television experience. Having worked on 10 television writing staffs in
both drama and comedy, he’s written and produced over 180 hours
of television. His network credits include Lois & Clark, The
Pretender, Charmed, and Sliders. He recently has partnered with the
legendary Stan Lee to develop a superhero television series.
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