PROVIDES:

    - Coaching for individuals and workshops for groups on developing
       and selling commercially viable ideas and projects for TV and film

    - Pitch preparation: proven techniques for packaging your pitch to
       the entertainment industry with the insider's view of how and why
       ideas get bought

    - Confidence-building techniques that put enthusiasm, inventiveness,
       and personal "magic" into your pitch and help you sell yourself and
       your ideas to the entertainment industry

    - Writing skills to recognize the TV and/or film story potential of
       your idea and guide its development

    - Editing skills to clarify and refine your ideas and your pitch

    - Techniques to upgrade your networking skills and expand your
       contact list

    - Insight to discover and increase your personal effectiveness

     - Support for personal growth to break through barriers that hold
       you back from achieving career goals

EXPERIENCE & CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

Writer/Producer
    - Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Primetime Emmy
       Nomination, Best Television Comedy, 1999.

    - Professional TV writer and a member of Writer's Guild of America
       since 1980.

    - Co-Executive Producer and Writer of "Everybody Loves
       Raymond," "Coach," and many other prime time TV comedies.

    - Developed and created numerous pilots for CBS, NBC, ABC,
       featuring such stars as Susan St. James, Katey Sagal and Kathy Baker.

    - Wrote and directed "How'd It Go" starring Megan Mullally at the
       HBO/Warner Bros. Workspace, May 2001.

    - She is currently developing a pilot for Lauren Graham’s Yellow
       House Productions at Warner Bros.

Teacher/Guest Lecturer
    - Director of "Off the Page!" workshop for the development and
       staged reading of comedy spec scripts.

     - UCLA Extension, The Writer's Program Instructor: "Advanced
       Sitcom Writing Workshop" and "Creating a Great Spec Script
       Story Workshop."

    - Featured speaker to:
             -Writer's Guild of America Visiting Writer's Program
             -Museum of Television and Radio
             -California Comedy Conference, Palms Springs
             -City of the Angels Film Festival, Critical Issues Forum
             -Children and the Media Conference
             -San Antonio College
             -Rio Hondo College
             -University of Judaism

Speaking & Article Topics

    - Why Your Pitch Starts In The Parking Lot
    - Defusing Tension: What to Say After You've Said Your Name
    - Making Your Pitch "Sexy"
    - Controlling The Meeting: Why What You Leave Out Of Your Pitch
       Is Even More Important Than What You Put In
    - Working The Room: Why Listening is crucial/Creating
       Allies/Incorporating Their Ideas Without Losing Your Own
    - Perfecting The Pitch: Treating Your Work With Respect, So They
       Will Too
    - Recognizing Openings That No One Else Knows Are Pitching
       Opportunities
    - How to Discover "Contacts" You Didn't Know You Had
    - Know When to Stop - or How to Take "Yes" For An Answer
    - How to Leave So You Can Come Back
    - Post-Pitch Strategies:  How to Stay in Touch Without Being a Pest

EDUCATION

  - American Film Institute - Center for Advanced Film Studies, MFA

  - Syracuse University - School of Speech and Dramatic Arts, BS