Dramatic Writing

2003

Writer and producer for network and cable television since 1981, including situation comedy, drama, documentary and daytime drama; development deals with Castlerock, Universal and The Family Channel

Executive producer and creator of "Big Brother Jake" (The Family Channel); staff writer for "The Cosby Show" (Carsey-Werner/NBC); associate writer for "As the World Turns" (Procter & Gamble/CBS); story editor for "Diamonds" (USA Network/CBS); supervising producer/writer for "More True Stories from Touched by an Angel" (CBS) and "The Mysterious Man of the Shroud" (CBS)

Emmy nomination for "As The World Turns"

Writers Guild of America, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, University Film and Video Association

• "The Littlest Magi," Zonderkidz, 2004
• "The Legend of the Sand Dollar," Zonderkidz, 2005
• "Molly and the Good Shepherd," Zonderkidz, 2005
• "A Thief, A Stranger, and A Pack of Lies," Zonderkidz, 2005
• "The Chinese Puzzle Box," Zonderkidz, 2005
• "The Forgotten Room," Zonderkidz, 2005
• "Hidden in Plain Sight," Zonderkidz, 2010

"All of the great films and television shows of the past. Every generation needs to understand where we came from to help us know where we're going."

• FILM 105 Preproduction
• FILM 106 Introduction to Screenwriting
• FILM 215 Screenwriting
• FILM 310 Television Comedy Writing
• FILM 315 Advanced Screenwriting
• FILM 431 Film and Television Senior Project I
• FILM 450 Off-campus: Los Angeles
• FILM 707 Screenwriting
• FILM 726 The Screenplay Adaptation
• FILM 762 Writing for Television: Drama
• FILM 763 Writing for Television: Comedy
• FILM 769 The Television Pilot

"In the absence of genius, there is always craftsmanship. Lack of genius is understandable since there are so few that grace our presence, but there is no excuse for lack of craftsmanship."

2008

Motion picture writer/director, producer and writer; creator, ABC television series "LOTTERY!"; writer, "Goldie and the Bears" pilot script; writer, "Campus Heat" pilot script; writer and producer, "MacGyver"; creator, Universal Television, Tri-Star Television, Interscope and Dick Clark Productions, series concepts; director and writer, "AMERICA 3000"; additional work as a documentary and commercial producer, cameraman and editor

Writer/director, "America 3000"; creator, "Lottery!"; writer, "Death Wish II" and "Over The Top"

The Southern California Motion Picture Council's Golden Star Halo Award, The Academy of Science Fiction and Horror Films' Golden Scroll Award for Outstanding Achievement for "America 3000"

Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Alpha Psi Omega

"Motivating tomorrow's filmmakers and writers to create new, original and exciting material."

• FILM 106 Introduction to Screenwriting
• FILM 310 Television Comedy Writing
• FILM 315 Advanced Screenwriting
• FILM 320 Directing the Narrative
• FILM 431 Senior Project
• DWRI 101 Introduction to Dramatic Writing
• DWRI 495 Dramatic Writing Senior Project
• MPRA 315 Advanced Playwriting

"I strive to create strong and emotionally engaging films and screenplays, which open up the audience's eyes and challenge their perceptions of the world and their place in it."

2006

Producer/writer/director, National Geographic Television, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California; producer/writer/director, Turner Broadcasting System, Atlanta, Georgia

National Geographic Specials; National Geographic Explorer; "Trumpet of Conscience" for TBS; "Portrait of America" for TBS; independent feature "Coyotes"; narrative shorts "San Juan Story" and "Extinction"

Primetime Emmy Award and two Regional Emmys; four Primetime Emmy nominations; Peabody Award; four CINE Golden Eagle Awards; Best Feature Film, 1999 Savannah Film Festival; Academy Award semi-finalist, live action short for "San Juan Story"

SCAD press releases:

• SCAD professor Kevin McCarey and explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau to host book signings during Gray's Reef Film Festival (Sept. 17, 2011)
• Award-winning SCAD professor to screen "Extinction" at SCAD Museum of Art (Oct. 24, 2011)
  

SCAD article:

• "'Extinction' comes to life"

Writers Guild of America, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, BLUE Ocean Film Festival Board, Grays Reef Board

"I love inspiring the next generation of filmmakers to venture out into the unknown, see things with fresh eyes and take creative chances."

• FILM 106 Introduction to Screenwriting
• FILM 224 Survey of Film
• FILM 315 Advanced Screenwriting
• FILM 320 Directing the Narrative
• FILM 337 Directing the Documentary
• FILM 421 Environmental Filmmaking
• FILM 747A Graduate Seminar in Film and Television: Directing the Documentary

"I enjoy making and watching films that transport me to another time or another place. Before I became a filmmaker I was a merchant mariner and oceanographer. They say that spending too much time near a compass induces severe wanderlust. I am so afflicted, and I think it shows in the types of films I've chosen to make over the years: documentaries filmed from Samoa to Africa and fictional films set in other lands."

2010

Adjunct assistant professor, theater department at Marymount Manhattan College; visiting lecturer, college seminar program at Yale University

Productions of plays at theaters across the country, including off-Broadway

Francesca Primus Citation 2010 from the American Theatre Critics Association; publication in "New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2007"; recipient, Audrey Wood Scholarship, Yale School of Drama; play commissions from MCC theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and Actors Theatre of Louisville

Playwrights' Coalition, MCC theater; Affiliated Playwright, New Georges theater company; Phi Beta Kappa

Plays

• "Bleeding Kansas," Samuel French, 2011
• "Know Dog," Playscripts, 2010
• "Miss Electricity," Playscripts, 2010
• "Dramatics Magazine," 2008
• "New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007," Smith & Kraus, 2008
• "Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen," Samuel French, 2008
• "Humana Festival 2007: Complete Plays," 2008
• "New Monologues: for Women by Women II," 2005
• "Know Dog," Salvage Vanguard Press, 2004
• "International Women's Playwriting Anthology," 2003.

"Teaching is an integral part of my own creative life as a playwright. Being around enthusiastic, gutsy young writers feeds me artistically, and my time in the classroom allows me to investigate more closely my own writing process and ideas about the dramatic production, theatrical history and the literature of plays."

• MPRA 201 Survey of Theater and Drama I
• MPRA 204 Survey of Theater and Drama II
• MPRA 215 Playwriting
• MPRA 315 Advanced Playwriting
• DWRI 708 Forms in Playwriting

" 'Writing is acting is directing is living your life,' writes John Patrick Shanley in his introduction to his play 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.' This is a statement that has stuck with me since I read it about five years ago. I feel an active link between my work as a playwright, the kind of theater I want to create and the approach I take interacting with the world. I value artistic risk and personal honesty and a connection to the thoughts and emotions that fuel the conversations of my life."