Lifetime Current Member, Writers Guild of America
EXPERIENCE
Professional Writer/Director/Producer/Actor
Professional positions at most major film studios including:
M-G-M, Universal, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and many independent production companies.
Wrote scripts which were produced for primetime television series on NBC, CBS, and ABC. Credits include:
Motion Picture: Danger Has Two Faces, 20th Century-Fox.
Television: Alias Smith & Jones; Bonanza; Ben Casey; Combat; Destry; Daniel Boone; The Bold Ones; The Big Valley; Empire; The Doctors; The Fugitive; The Green Hornet; Felony Squad; Ironside; Kraft Suspense Theater; The Man Who Never Was; Mission: Impossible; Run For Your Life; Wild Wild West; The Virginian.
Video: State of Colorado, Court Administrator: “The Role of the Judge”
Writer, director, producer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, with Q-Clearance for national security films and television.
Executive Producer, Valley Production Center, Van Nuys, CA
Produced TV shows and commercials featuring Dick Clark, Ed McMahon, Steve Allen, Richard Simmons & other celebrities.
Acted, produced and directed in several community theaters.
TEACHING
Faculty, Speech-Drama-Playwriting
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY,
New York, NY
Lecturer, History of the Theater
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS, New York, NY
Faculty, Theater Arts Department
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty, Playwriting
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty, Film Writing
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN, Pasadena, CA
EDUCATION
Master of Arts — Theater Arts
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Arts — English Literature – UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Boulder, CO
BIRTHPLACE
Fort Collins, Colorado
Ghostwater – a screenplay written with Elizabeth Terpiloff Barrows