MFA in Creative Writing Program
I am a screenwriter and playwright. My film credits include the popular comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. My student film, The Fred Astaire Complex, (which I wrote and directed) was awarded the Grand Prize by the California Media Association. My television credits include Doogie Howser, M.D., The Secret World of Alex Mack, Melrose Place, and The Magnificent Seven. I was co-head writer for MTV’s Undressed, which was executive produced by director Roland Joffe. I also served as Supervising Producer on the one-hour dramatic series Twice in a Lifetime for the PAX network. My one-act plays (Etcetera and Intentions) were selected Best Play at the L.A. Valley College One-Act Play Festival two years consecutively. My full-length play, Maps for Drowners, had its world premiere at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles and featured Lisa Kudrow. My short fiction has been published in the Slipstream and Westwind. My non-fiction pieces have been published in Caribbean Lifestyles, Islands, and scr(i)pt magazines. A new personal essay will appear in issue #3 of SWINK. I was honored with the Bank of America Award for Drama Excellence, and also received a grant from the Public Interest Radio and Television Educational Society (PIRATES). I began teaching in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program (awarded “Outstanding Instructor of the Year” in 1994), and currently serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA Screenwriting Program at UCLA’s School of Film and Television. (B.A., University of California, Los Angeles).I am also developing new dramatic programs for Fox TV Studios, Warner Bros. TV, and Avenue Pictures. My one-hour dramatic pilot called WitnessX was purchased by CBS. I also work as writer and executive consultant for Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Television International, and Freemantle Media, launching new movies and TV series globally and for U.S. first-run. Currently, I'm on location in Australia on a new limited-run one-hour drama series for Lifetime called Monarch Cove, which premieres primetime November 2006.
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Neil Landau, BA