GRADUATE SCREENWRITING FACULTY
Eric Edson
MFA (2), UCLA, The American Film Institute
Graduate Program Coordinator
Writer of feature films and TV movies including Lethal Vows, The Rose and the Jackal, Diving In, The Soggy Bottom Gang, Uncaged Heart; episodic TV including Trapper John, MD, True Confessions.
Alexis Krasilovsky
MFA, Cal Arts
Film Director/Producer: End of the Art World starring Andy Worhol, award-winning What Memphis Needs, Exile, Women Behind the Camera [2007 Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the Moondance International Film Festival]; author of Women Behind the Camera, Some Women Writers Kill Themselves, articles.
Kenneth Portnoy
Ph.D, NYU
Screenwriter and author of the books Screen Adaptation, and Fundamental Building Blocks of Screenwriting; episodic TV writer including Quincy, Fantasy Island.
Jared Rappaport
MFA, The American Film Institute
Co-writer, co-producer, and co-director of the Showtime feature film Fathers and Sons, and co-writer, co-producer of the feature Blindness. Writer for the TV series Family Medical Center, Days of Our Lives, and Early On.
Jon Stahl
MFA, UCLA
Screenwriter, whose scripts have been optioned by producers such as David Foster, Cari-Esta Albert and Meg Ryan’s Prufrock Pictures.
Lance Lee
MFA, Yale University
Author of books, plays, and poetry including The Understructure of Screenwriting, The Death and Life of Drama, and Wrestling With the Angel.