Activities of Current and Former Students of The Graduate Screenwriting Program

Bill Arthur (MFA ‘03) –“Chupacabra” Dean George Productions – feature length screenplay; development meetings at Lightstorm Entertainment and Toby Maguire’s production company.

Sheldon Bull ( MFA ’05) – Author of Elephant Bucks, coming out in Spring 2007, about writing the television comedy script.  Writer and Producer of “Coach”, “Newhart”, “M*A*S*H”, “Sabrina, the Teen-age Witch” and many others.

Punsakdi Chidthai (current candidate, MFA’08)

Jamey Combs (MFA ’05) – Assistant to the Producer, “Law and Order: SVU”; “Jack Creek” optioned by Quiver Productions; Adjunct Faculty Pasadena City College (Editing and Electronic News Gathering).

Laurene DeBord-Foulk (MFA 10) – Current Candidate.

Ryan Emter (MFA ’07) – Current Candidate.

Brian Gonzales (MFA ’05) – Developed “Olde Roger” for Revolution Pictures, but has been passed on; “Lilith” feature length screenplay being developed for Highflyer Productions.

Nicole S. Gonzalez (MFA ’06) – Internship at Granada Entertainment. “Beverly Hills, 9021-Dos” Finalist Screenplay Competition in Beverly Hill Film Festival, 2007. 

Lisa Henthorn (‘01-‘02) – Current: Script Coordinator, “Jericho” (CBS – Series) Produced feature screenplay “La Migra” Breakaway Productions, on DVD and airs next month on HBO Latino (also a semi-finalist in Project Greenlight; Script Coordinator—“Love Monkey” (CBS Television); Previous:  Script Coordinator – “Kevin Hill” (UPN) and “Ghost Whisperer” (CBS); Assistant to Executive Producer – “Judging Amy”.

Kareem Issaq (MFA ‘01) – Teaching Screenwriting for Non-Majors for UNLV Film.  Producing animated short:  “The Addict”.

Jennifer Kohler (MFA ’10)  – Current candidate.

Ricardo Reyna (MFA ’04)  – Teaching Production I for UNLV Film.

Jill Salvo (MFA ’03) – Administrator, Digipost, a post-production company; Assistant to the Co-Executive Producer “Third Watch”.

Judith Ruth (’05-‘06) – Board of Directors, Women In Film (Las Vegas).

Brian Sodoma (MFA ‘06) – “Dwelling”, short film script produced and directed by Roger Erik Tinch for True Caliber Productions.  Selected at Rhode Island Film Festival, 2004; Dallas Asian Film Festival, 2004; Cinevegas 2004.

Mike Sweeney (MFA ’02) – “Land of Canaan”, feature-length screenplay for Blue Sky productions. “You’ll Never Live To Tell”, feature-length screenplay assignment for Highflyer Production; “Puckhead” feature-length assignment for Tiger Vidmar Productions; development meetings at Warner Bros, Sony Picture, Heyday Productions, Red Hour Films, Wendy Finerman Productions, Stan Winston Productions.

Jia Xing (current candidate; MFA ’08) – U.S. coordinator, Survey of Foreign Theatre Groups, an on-going study sponsored by a Beijing theatre organization; Script Editor, Shanghai Paradise Film/TV Group.