ABOUT THE WRITERS - March 2009 Showcase
Stacey Collins is a Boston Massachusetts native. She’s a college instructor and freelance journalist for the LA Times, Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and national magazines. She earned a Master degree from Harvard, and worked at the university as an administrator before heading out to LA. Stacey does not attend AA. e: collins3 @ gmail.com
Dori Fram’s first play, “Call Waiting”, earned four Drama-Logue awards and an Ovation nomination from two productions in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter called Dori's writing "clever, satiric and touching." It was named the L.A. Weekly's Pick-of-the-Week and Critic's Choice by the Daily News. "Call Waiting" the movie, earned Best Comedy at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and Best Screenplay at the ARPA Film Festival in 2005. Dori's married to Arnold Fram and has two children, Michael and Nicole. e: dorifram @ aol.com
Allison Kiessling is newly appointed to the Harvardwood Board of Directors and currently facilitates the Writers Program TV Pilot Module. She has a BA in Economics from Boston University and spent two years as an Americorps VISTA before studying film at Emerson College and going on to earn her master's in Education & Television from Harvard. e: allison.kiessling @ gmail.com
Warren Leonard is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied film theory and history, and Harvard Law School. He has worked at a prestigious Californian law firm that has since collapsed, a toy company that has gone bankrupt, and an automobile company that was recently bailed out. He is currently Deputy General Counsel of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose days are clearly numbered. e: warrenleonard @ gmail.com
Jamie Settlow studied film at Harvard, where he made documentaries on topics such as taxidermy and foosball fanatics. Following college, he worked as a story analyst for Miramax and Dimension Films. Jamie grew up in Alabama and still occasionally says "y'all." e: jrsettlow @ yahoo.com
Sean Presant has a B.A. in History, Literature, and Visual Arts from Harvard University, and an MFA in film production from USC, where his thesis film won the Student Emmy for comedy. Following a directing apprenticeship with Ron Howard, Sean went on to be a comedy producer on ABC's Wipeout, the executive producer and creator of MTV's Scammers, and a writer on The Wayne Brady Show and Nickelodeon's upcoming Planet Sheen. Sean is allergic to monkey. e: spresant @ hotmail.com
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