BIO

EDWARD POMERANTZ has written the movie CAUGHT, a novel INTO IT (Dial Press), the plays BRISBURIAL and A TUNE BEYOND US (produced by the New Federal Theatre), the play ELECTRA: THE REWRITE (produced by Kinitiras, the Greek dance theatre company, for the Athens Fringe Festival), two LAW and ORDER episodes, THE PRINCESS AND THE CABBIE, a CBS Television Movie starring Valerie Bertinelli, three After-School Specials (including NEW YORK CITY TOO FAR FROM TAMPA BLUES, winner of the Writers Guild Award, and THE GOLD BUG, an Emmy winner), and over 30 commissioned screenplays and teleplays for movies and TV.

He has received two Writers Guild Awards, a CAPS Grant, a Ford Foundation Grant, three John Golden Awards, and the ABC-TV Playwright-In-Residence Grant at the Yale Drama School.

NOTHING PERSONAL and A CHANGE OF PACE, his one-act plays published by Ms Magazine, have been performed by Marlo Thomas, Judith Light, Lorraine Bracco, Barbara Feldon, and Betty Buckley.

A CHANGE OF PACE is included in the anthology 35 IN TEN, and his one-act plays I HATE WHEN IT GETS DARK SO EARLY and THE PEACEKEEPER have been selected as Finalists for the Heideman Award by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. THE PEACEKEEPER was also a Finalist at the 35th Annual Samuel French Short Play Festival.

Staged readings of his plays and screenplays have been performed at the Hayworth Theatre and Edgemar Theatre Center in Los Angeles, and at New York City's Theatre at St. Clements, the Actors Studio, the Westside Theatre, The Kitchen, the National Arts Club, and the Players Club.

As a writing teacher, he's been an Associate Director of the Aspen Writers Workshop in Aspen, Colorado, and has taught screenwriting at...

The NYU Tisch School of the Arts (the Dramatic Writing Program)

The Columbia University Creative Writing Division

The Columbia University School of the Arts Film School

The MFA Screenwriting Program at the City College of New York

The SUNY-Purchase Dramatic Writing Program

The Writers Guild of America East Foundation Screenwriting Workshop, which he created to find and nurture screenwriters in the Harlem community.

He has also been...

A Creative Advisor at the Moonstone Screenwriting Lab in England and Germany, working with screenwriters from all over Europe.

A Creative Advisor at the Toscano Foundation Screenwriting Lab in Mexico, working with screenwriters from South America, Mexico, Spain, and Cuba.

A Creative Advisor at the Sundance Screenwriting Lab in Brazil.

A Creative Advisor at the Latino Writers Lab for NALIP, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, in New York City and Los Angeles.

A Visiting Writer at the International School of Film and TV in Cuba.

A Panelist at the Malaga, Austin, and Lake Placid Film Festivals.

The Writers Guild of America East Keynote Speaker at CineStory, the Chicago Screenwriting Conference.