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Miriam Gallagher (Playwriting Workshop & Script Consulting Service )

Miriam Gallagher has had over 25 plays performed internationally and work translated into Irish, Russian, Dutch and Finnish. Her plays include Fancy Footwork, commissioned by the Dublin Theatre Festival, Kalahari Blues, which toured throughout Ireland, and The Mighty Oak of Riverwood, performed at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. Her selected plays are published in the collection Fancy Footwork.

Miriam's books include Let's Help Our Children Talk and a novel, Song for Salamander. Also an accomplished screenwriter, her film Gypsies has been screened at the Irish Film Centre, New York's Lincoln Center, and the International Children's Film Festival in Hyderabad, India. A member of Irish PEN, Miriam has served on its committee and as vice president. She has also served as a judge for the O.Z. Whitehead Play Competition, on the Awards Panel for the Arts and Disability Forum, and as a guest lecturer at universities in Dublin, New York, Boston, and Pretoria.
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Olga Humphrey (Screenwriting Workshop & Script Consulting Service)

Olga Humphrey has worked as a programming executive for HBO's new business development group. In that capacity, she screened and selected numerous films for the service, from classic fare to new films seeking their first home on cable TV. Since then, she has been a story analyst and consultant (analyzing both scripts and novels) for many of the top independent film companies and studios in New York, including Miramax, Focus Features, USA Films, October Films, MGM-UA, Hallmark Entertainment, Spring Creek, Walden Media and others. Olga did private script consulting for Sandra Bullock, working on two projects that the actress was attached to at the time. She was the favored story consultant for top producers Robert Halmi, Sr. (Dinotopia, Merlin) and Donna Gigliotti (Shakespeare in Love). Other screenplays that Olga did consulting work on include several drafts of Gosford Park (Academy Award winner, Best Screenplay), About Schmidt (Writers Guild Award nominee), the international hit Bend It Like Beckham, 50 First Kisses (starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore), and many, many others.

As a writer, Olga's plays have been published and produced around the U.S. and internationally. Her first short film received its world premiere at the legendary Anthology Film Archives in New York. Olga respects and admires all writers and finds the greatest satisfaction in helping them fully realize their work.
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David O'Leary (Screenwriting Course, Workshop & Script Consulting Service)

David O'Leary worked for five years in feature development at various production companies and studios, including Valhalla Motion Pictures, Kopelson Entertainment, Rogue Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and Industry Entertainment. He has extensive background in story analysis, and currently works as a Script Reader/Story Analyst for various Hollywood production companies including Silver Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, and Sparkler Entertainment. David has also judged numerous screenwriting competitions, including the 2009 Page International Screenwriting Awards.

Currently working on several screenplays of his own, David also teaches Screenwriting and Feature Treatment Development courses at New York Film Academy (in Los Angeles), to both undergraduate and MFA students. He writes: "My teaching philosophy is that virtually any idea can be turned into a compelling feature screenplay if the passion, inspiration, and dedication from the writer is there, along with practical, no-nonsense guidance from an industry professional, who's committed to making that script a great story that's commercially viable in the marketplace."
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Frank Moher (Self-Directed Playwriting Course)

Frank Moher's plays have been produced internationally, at theatres including South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Detroit Repertory Theatre, Round House Theatre (Silver Spring, Maryland), the Canadian Stage Company (Toronto), the Wellington Repertory Theatre (Wellington, New Zealand), Workshop West Theatre (Edmonton, Alta.), the Asolo Theater (Sarasota, Fla.), Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary), the Gyre and Gimble Theatre Company (Dublin), and The Mingei Theatre (Tokyo). He has won a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for Writing (for "Odd Jobs"), the Edmonton Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play (for both "The Third Ascent" and "Prairie Report"), and is published by the Playwrights Guild of Canada and ProPlay, where his plays Odd Jobs, Supreme Dream, and McLuhan: The Musical, among others, may be read online.

Frank has taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta (where he was a Distinguished Visiting Artist), and is currently an instructor in dramatic writing at Vancouver Island University. He has also worked professionally as a literary manager and dramaturg, and writes regularly for various magazines and newspapers, including backofthebook.ca. His most recent play, Big Baby, has been seen in Vancouver, Calgary, Los Angeles, and Pristina.
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Mike Snyder (TV Hour Episodic Workshop & Script Consulting Service [TV])

Mike Snyder is a veteran writer, director, and producer for both film and television. He began his career writing for such TV series as "Hart to Hart" (Columbia Pictures Television), "Airwolf" (Belisarius Productions), and "The Dream Team" (Hamilton Entertainment, featuring Roger Moore). His many produced screenplays include Rescue Me, Savage Land, The Long Road Home (co-writer), and Paradiso (co-writer and director). He has also worked in the story departments at NBC, Hanna-Barbera and Universal Studios. Most recently, Mike has produced the films Frozen Kiss (with Mimi Rogers), Haunted Echoes (with Sean Young), and Smile Pretty (with Scout Taylor-Compton).
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Mark Troy (Playwriting Course, Playwriting Workshop, Screenwriting Workshop & Script Consulting Service)

Award winning writer Mark Troy is equally at home in theatre and film. As a playwright, he has had over 50 plays produced around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Australia, Scotland, Singapore, and The Philippines. Honors have gone to "Everyone I Know" (Los Angeles Play Festival Winner), "The Misguided Production" (Malibu International Play Festival Winner), and "Desperation" (Samuel French Short Play of the Year), among others. A number of his plays are published by Brooklyn Publishers and Tinsel Road Books, and he is also winner of the Prestigious Clarie Donaldson Prize for Playwrighting and the International Drury University Playwrighting Award.

As a screenwriter, Mark has worked on projects for Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, and Saratoga Entertainment, including "Sweet Tooth" starring The Rock, and "The Guru" starring Heather Graham. He co-wrote "Driving Me Crazy," currently in post-production, and starring Celeste Holm, Mickey Rooney, Renee Taylor, and Joseph Bologna. He has another three feature films in pre-production. Mark has lectured to new writing talent at Universal Studios and Disney, and taught both playwriting and screenwriting at various theaters and schools around the country and abroad.
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Mark S.P. Turvin (Playwriting Workshop & Script Consulting Service)

Mark Turvin has had over 50 productions of his 20 plays, as well as countless readings and workshops in Phoenix, Boston, and New York. He has had his work produced from Finland to Thailand, and from San Diego to Off Off Broadway in Manhattan. Four of his plays have been published, and one is the second longest running show in Arizona, logging in at seven years of performances. Mark is also an accomplished actor, director, and producer.

Mark was Playwriting Instructor, Workshop Facilitator, and Dramaturg-in-Residence at PlayWright's Theatre in Phoenix for four years, and is currently Dramaturg-in-Residence at Theater Works in Peoria, Arizona. He has been a Theatre Critic since 1995, and is a columnist for Back Stage Newspapers in New York. He studied playwriting at Playwrights Horizons under Albert Innaurato. He received his B.A.s in Dramatic Arts and English with a minor in Creative Writing at S.U.N.Y. at Geneseo, and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing with an emphasis in Playwriting at Emerson College. He is a freelance writer, and has been a newspaper columnist, a television and advertising copywriter and writer/producer, and an essayist. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Theatre Critics Association.
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