Introduce Yourself To the Group

[Lauren DeCicco]

1. Name? Lauren

2. How many scripts you’ve written? Two features, three shorts.

3. What you hope to get out of the class? A better understanding of the Profound model and how to incorporate the skills into scripts.

4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? Oh goodness. Well, I willingly ate liver as a small child. Is that strange? XD

I’m happy to be finally taking this class! Looking forward to meeting everyone.

[Amanda Avalon]

Hi all,

My name is Avalon, Amanda Avalon 🙂

I’ve finished 3 features, a pilot and 3 shorts. I’m currently writing a new feature (or two actually). I write comedy, romantic comedy and dramedy with a female protagonist(s).

3. My goal is to finish my comedy feature during this course and to learn the fundaments of a profound screenplay.

4. If only I knew before… I could’ve watching movies instead of reading a bunch of law books.

Let’s have fun and learn!

– Amanda

[Dale Griffiths Stamos]

My name is Dale Griffiths Stamos.

I am both a playwright and screenwriter. In theater I have written four full length plays and 20 odd short plays. Most of the shorts have been produced at various small theaters. Two of the full lengths have been produced in Los Angeles. In film, I have written and produced or coproduced 6 short films, three of which I directed. They have gone to multiple film festivals. I have written three feature-length scripts.

My goal is to learn what makes a screenplay profound, since this is what I seek to do in everything I write.

Something unique? I am fluent in French (used to be a French teacher) and speak Spanish well, and some Italian, even a bit of Greek! (don’t ask.) 🙂

Looking forward to getting to know you all!

[Lori Lance]

Hi everyone! My name is Lori Lance, and I have completed eight feature-length screenplays. During this class, I hope to write a profound Christmas feature!

I’ve recently been asked by a couple of people in the entertainment industry what I do for a living other than writing. And lol, what does my husband do. So, it seems that being a stay-at-home mom that devotes her extra time to writing is unusual or maybe even strange to some, but I have to say that I am incredibly grateful to do just that.

[Wilton Blake]

Hi, Wilton Blake here.

1. Call me Blake.

2. I have written one horrible script.

3. I have a profound story that I have been trying to tell for many years.

4. I’ve “retired” from practicing law.

[Barbara Osteika]

1. Name? Barbara

2. How many scripts you’ve written? never completed a script

3. What you hope to get out of the class? I’d like to adapt a book that I’m working on.

4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? In 1977, I was on a student tour inside the Mosque at the Islamic Center of Washington, DC when the Hanafi Muslims overtook the building and took hostages – I got out and was not held hostage.

[Karen Tolliver]

Hi everyone, my name is Karen

I have written 8 scripts so far.

I hope to rewrite my film script into a profound film.

Something unique about me I found out this year is I’m a Black female Script Supervisor in Los Angeles and apparently there are only 50 of us World Wide.

[Lynne Heatley]

Hi, I’m Lynne,

I’m a former teacher, newspaper feature pages, educational materials, have written a lot of short stories and some longer ones BUT right on the starting line for screenwriting. Looking forward to it.

[Jeff Reynolds]

Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Reynolds.

I have written one script and I hope to make it more profound by taking this class. I have another story that I have been working on for forty years and hope to write after I retire from 40 years at A T and T.

Something unusual? I took about 6 years of mandarin Chinese starting in the 7th grade. Wei wei ,Ni hau ma? Hen hau syshe. That’s about all I have left.

Nice to meet everyone. Looks like I’m the rookie…………..

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[Veialu]

Hi Everyone!

1. My name is Veialu Aila-Unsworth.

2. I’ve written 6 features, 1 pilot.

3. I hope to learn new ways to make my writing more emotionally powerful.

4. My first name, Veialu, is from my father’s tribe in Papua New Guinea. It’s the name of a tree of imagination that only some people can see.

[Valerie Getsinger]

My name is Valerie Getsinger.

I have written two screenplays. They both need work to be better.

From taking this class, I hope to learn how to write screenplays that work, have all the components needed, and are profound.

Something that is unusual about me is that I am half English and half American.