Writing unleashes the imagination in ways that are inconceivable to the conscious mind. The element of surprise in the act of writing makes it all worthwhile.
BIO
Melanie Mitzner graduated with a B.A., Cum Laude in French Drama. After a circuitous route through Charleston, Cambridge, Provincetown, Key West and Nice, she landed in New York to study drama and screenwriting at N.Y.U., the New School and privately under Meade Roberts, who adapted for the screen Tennessee Williams' plays Summer and Smoke and The Fugitive Kind. She also studied fiction through the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.
Her novel Slow Reveal was a finalist in the Heekin Group Foundation James Fellowship. An excerpt of her novel Too Good To Be True was published in the Harrington Quarterly. She received an Edward Albee Fellowship for her screenplay Zero Gravity and wrote the one-act play Personal Effects. A finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for her screenplay Dodge and Burn, her screenplays In The Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. In addition to her fellowship from the M.E.T. Theater, New York, she was awarded fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. As a journalist, she covered the tech industry, television production and visual effects and freelanced for Wine Spectator, The Spirit World and thegroovymind as well as providing content for numerous websites and blogs. Her novel Paradise at H/er Feet is slated for publication in 2019.
She's a member of Freelancers Union, English Language Arts Network, Quebec Writers Federation and PEN.
BIO
Melanie Mitzner graduated with a B.A., Cum Laude in French Drama. After a circuitous route through Charleston, Cambridge, Provincetown, Key West and Nice, she landed in New York to study drama and screenwriting at N.Y.U., the New School and privately under Meade Roberts, who adapted for the screen Tennessee Williams' plays Summer and Smoke and The Fugitive Kind. She also studied fiction through the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.
Her novel Slow Reveal was a finalist in the Heekin Group Foundation James Fellowship. An excerpt of her novel Too Good To Be True was published in the Harrington Quarterly. She received an Edward Albee Fellowship for her screenplay Zero Gravity and wrote the one-act play Personal Effects. A finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for her screenplay Dodge and Burn, her screenplays In The Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. In addition to her fellowship from the M.E.T. Theater, New York, she was awarded fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. As a journalist, she covered the tech industry, television production and visual effects and freelanced for Wine Spectator, The Spirit World and thegroovymind as well as providing content for numerous websites and blogs. Her novel Paradise at H/er Feet is slated for publication in 2019.
She's a member of Freelancers Union, English Language Arts Network, Quebec Writers Federation and PEN.