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Nina DeCastro (Sit-com writing workshop and Script Consulting Service)

Nina DeCastro is a staff writer for Fox Television's "The Tick." Other credits include the ABC series "Odd Man Out" and Nickolodeon's "All That." She has worked as a story analyst for Miramax and CBS, and is currently Director of Development for Overland Literary Management in Los Angeles. Nina is also a regular guest speaker in story analysis classes at the American Film Institute.
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Fred Mills (Script Consulting Service - TV Hour Episodic and Movies-for-Television)

Fred Mills is one of Los Angeles' busiest TV writers. As a writer/producer, his credits include "The People Next Door" (Steve Tisch Productions), "Prophet of Evil: The Ervil Lebaron Story" (Dream City Films/Hearst), and "Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story" (Republic Pictures/CM Two), all broadcast on CBS. He has also written for NBC, ABC, Fox, and Lifetime Television, and won first prize in the 2000 Cinestory competition for feature films. He has been a guest speaker at the University of California (Irvine), and runs a screenwriting workshop in Los Angeles.
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Laurie Scheer (Screenwriting Course)

Laurie Scheer has worked as a script development consultant for numerous production companies including, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Carolco, HBO, ABC Productions, Hearst Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, and most recently, The Sundance Institute. During the next eight years at Viacom Enterprises International, she was responsible for acquiring, screening, and purchasing programming, while also developing network series such as the "Perry Mason" Specials, "Matlock," "Key West," and numerous TV/Cable movies including "The Operation," "The Anissa Ayala Story," "Paris Trout," and "Desperate Journey."

In addition, Scheer has purchased, developed, and preproduced a number of independent feature film projects. She has participated in creating courses at UCLA, UW-Madison, University, and Loyola University, Chicago, and taught screenwriting, producing, and television and film business courses at Northwestern University, DePaul University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia College. From early 1998 until April 1999 she was the Vice President of Programming for AMC Networks’ Romance Classics where she launched the inventive new cable channel, overseeing the development, production and execution to air of numerous Original Series and Specials. Currently, Scheer is living in L.A. and completing her text "HOLLYWOOD: The Dream Industry."
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Mike Snyder (Screenwriting Workshop)

Mike's many produced screenplays include "Rescue Me" for Cannon Films, directed by Arthur Alan Seidelman, "Savage Land" (with Graham Greene), "The Long Road Home" (co-writer, Republic Pictures), and, again as co-writer, "Paradiso" for Vidmark Films, which he also directed. His television credits include numerous episodes of "Hart to Hart" and "The Dream Team," as well as "Shannon," "Airwolf," and the Movie of the Week "Time Bomb." He has also worked in the story departments at NBC, Hanna-Barbera and Universal Studios.

Among his projects currently in development are "Snow White" with Disney/ABC, "Little Miss Fix-It" with Mike Jacobs, Jr. Productions, and "Pax" with Oppenheimer Productions.
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Diana Wagman (Script Consulting Service)

Diana Wagman's screenplay for "The Open Heart" received a Silver Eagle Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Winner of the Mary Pickford Award for Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, her other produced screenplays include "Words of Love" for Madrid National Television and adaptations of Linda Hogan's "Mean Spirit" and Chris Crutcher's "The Crazy Horse Electric Games". "Written in Water" is scheduled for production by Handmade Films/Paragon Productions, and Diana has other screenplays under option to Redeemable Features and The Family Channel.

An MFA graduate in screenwriting from the American Film Institute, Diana has taught screenwriting at American University in Washington, D.C. and Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. She recently programmed the Vampyre Festival for the Sci-Fi Channel, and her first novel, "Skin Deep," was published in September to rave reviews in, among other places, the New York Times.
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Frank Moher (Playwriting Course)

Frank Moher's plays have been produced internationally, at theatres including South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Detroit Repertory Theatre, Round House Theatre (Silver Spring, Maryland), the Canadian Stage Company (Toronto), the Wellington Repertory Theatre (Wellington, New Zealand), Workshop West Theatre (Edmonton, Alta.), the Asolo Theater (Sarasota, Fla.), and the Gyre and Gimble Theatre Company (Dublin). He has won a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for Writing (for "Odd Jobs"), the Edmonton Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play (for both "The Third Ascent" and "Prairie Report"), and is published by Blizzard Publishing and International Readers' Theatre.

Frank has also taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta (where he was a Distinguished Visiting Artist), and is currently an instructor in dramatic writing at Malaspina University-College on Vancouver Island. His latest script, "Weather," premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects in 1999. He also writes regularly for magazines and newspapers.
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Mark S.P. Turvin (Playwriting Workshop)

Mark Turvin has had over 50 productions of his 20 plays, as well as countless readings and workshops in Phoenix, Boston, and New York. He has had his work produced from Finland to Thailand, and from San Diego to Off Off Broadway in Manhattan. Four of his plays have been published, and one is the second longest running show in Arizona, logging in at seven years of performances. Mark is also an accomplished actor, director, and producer.

Mark was Playwriting Instructor, Workshop Facilitator, and Dramaturg-in-Residence at PlayWright's Theatre in Phoenix for four years, and is currently Dramaturg-in-Residence at Theater Works in Peoria, Arizona. He has been a Theatre Critic since 1995, and is a columnist for Back Stage Newspapers in New York. He studied playwriting at Playwrights Horizons under Albert Innaurato. He received his B.A.s in Dramatic Arts and English with a minor in Creative Writing at S.U.N.Y. at Geneseo, and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing with an emphasis in Playwriting at Emerson College. He is a Freelance Writer, and has been a newspaper columnist, a television and advertising copywriter and writer/producer, and an essayist. He is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and the American Theatre Critics Association.
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Lee Wochner (Script Consulting Service)

Lee Wochner's plays include "Anapest" (workshopped at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre, and the Mt. Sequoyah New Play Retreat, and produced at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York City), as well as "7 Horns," "Uncle Hem," "Remember Frank Zappa," "Guest for Dinner," "Then What?," and "Man and Woman Set Their Sights," all of which have also been staged in New York and/or Los Angeles. He holds a masters in writing from the University of Southern California, where he was the first playwright to be produced on all four campus stages.

Wochner is co-founder and Artistic Director of Moving Arts, an acclaimed black-box theatre in Los Angeles, where he has directed or produced over four dozen new plays in the past five years, most of them world premieres. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and the Academy of American Poets, and is on the board of governors of Theatre LA. He has previously taught playwrighting at Pierce College and Glendale College.
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