| 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.
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