Former actress and theater
director Christina Hamlett is an award winning author
and script coverage consultant whose credits include
21 books, 112 plays and musicals, 3 optioned films and
columns that appear throughout the US, UK, Canada, Australia
and New Zealand. In addition, her interviews with film
industry professionals are a regular feature in SCREENTALK
magazine and a popular topic in her national, local
and online writing workshops.
Hamlett is a graduate of California
State University, Sacramento, where her degree in Communications
led to stints in all aspects of media, including cable
television, radio mystery theater, and fundraising campaigns.
She was also the manager and director of The Hamlett
Players, a touring repertory company that not only provided
performance opportunities for new actors but took original
stage plays into communities not served by traditional
theater arts organizations. She credits her mentor,
the late Sylvia Burack, for her ongoing love of--and
commitment to--the live theater experience. In addition
to continuing to pen one-acts for PLAYS, INC., she has
won awards for her full-length scripts and participated
in living history programs through the California Governor's
Mansion, Sutter's Fort, and Southern California's Heritage
Square.
Her upcoming book "Could
It Be A Movie" (Michael Wiese Productions, Publisher)
will be released in Winter 2004 and contains everything
an aspiring screenwriter needs to know about how to
get an idea out of his/her head and up on the screen.
In the meantime, don't let the title of her last book,
"ScreenTEENwriters," fool you. The idea-starter
exercises contained throughout can be used in independent
study, film camp, or classroom and are supplemented
by plenty of been there/done that advice from industry
pros. (Available through Amazon.com or directly from
www.meriwetherpublishing.com.)
Hamlett's critique services and one-on-one mentoring
address the areas of dialogue, character development,
structure, pacing, originality, marketability and recommendations
for direct submission, film festivals, and scriptwriting
competitions. Student and subscriber discounts are available
upon request. She can be contacted directly at scriptingsuccess@cswebmail.com.
(Queries only please. Unsolicited scripts or attachments
will be deleted.)
Current projects include:
CHANGING WORLDS, a comedy feature
she has been contracted by Winery Productions to write
for the Japanese film/television market.
MURIEL'S MEMOIRS, a feature film
adapted from one of her successful stage plays and focusing
on the subject of Alzheimers. This drama will be shot
in Pasadena by filmmaker James Tucker.
WHERE THE BODIES ARE, a collaboration
with actor/filmmaker David Grad, is set in rural Mississippi
in the 1960's and centers on a forger who escaped from
a maximum security prison with the aid of a greedy guard.
THE LAST PRINCESS, a musical
being developed with composer Chris Wozniak and relating
the last 2 years of Hawaii's Princess Kaiulani's life.
Christina and her husband, AIG
insurance industry executive Mark Webb reside in Pasadena,
California and are currently collaborating on several
book and film projects.
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