![]() ![]() I worked as a copywriter at Grey Worldwide. Yet these auspicious beginnings soon soured.Īs struggling writers do, I went into advertising. The spec was called Scribbleface, and I’d written it as my thesis project. Two weeks after graduation, I sold a feature screenplay to Norman Twain Productions – who’d produced Morgan Freeman’s Lean On Me. I attended the Dramatic Writing program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The words swam on the page in front of me, and I had a deep recognition, like a young boy shown a test of objects having belonged to a previous Lama. The drama teacher at my school had formatted our school play like a movie script. The first time I saw 12-point Courier words on a page, I was only 6. I considered screenwriting a holy calling. At 16, I entered the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship competition with a script called Things Left Unsaid in Pittsburgh, and it reached the top 16%. Then, I kept writing – two or three screenplays a year. It was called Hospital, about a group of miscreants who take hostage the President of the United States after he’s airlifted to Walter Reed. I’d written my first screenplay when I was 12.
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