Filmmakers Group

Moderator: Catherine Clinch

Writer/Producer with twenty-nine years of experience in the entertainment industry

 Previous Professional Experience

Associate Publisher of Creative Screenwriting Magazine and Associate Coordinator of the Screenwriting Expo. My relationship with the magazine lasted for 12 years.

Wrote 17 produced episodes of network television for series including Hunter, Jake & The Fatman, True Confessions, Hart to Hart, The Love Boat, Foul Play, and KnightRider. It is interesting to note that 9 first drafts were put straight into production without rewrite.

Wrote, produced and presented more than 200 hours of LIVE educational television.

Elected to and served a two-year term on the Board of Directors, Writers Guild of America, west.

Taught accredited courses in screenwriting and advanced video production; adjunct faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Loyola Marymount University.

Designed and taught Entertain.ment - the first university-accredited course in writing and producing live interactive broadcast for the Internet; supervised the first live interactive student production with participants throughout the United States and Indonesia.

Authored a primer for PBS Learning Satellite Service to explain the distance learning process from the course-creator's point of view [quoted and referenced in two doctoral dissertations].