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Novel 1 - Jaira Placide is the author of the book Fresh Girl and was winner of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award. She earned both her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts Degrees in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she was named a University and Alumni Scholar. She has previously taught other courses at the FDCAC . Screenwriting 1 - Sophia Romma holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is the winner of the Grand Prix Garnet Bracelet for best screenplay for her film, Poor Liza. Her play, Coyote, Take Me There! and nine short stories have just been published in a book entitled Blue Devils. Most recently, her musical Defenses of Prague, co-directed by Leslie Lee, was produced at La MaMa in the winter of 2004. Romance Novel - Nathasha Brooks-Harris is the author of the Romance Thriller Panache and has been Contributing Editor and Columnist for TODAY'S BLACK WOMEN and BLACK MEN Magazine. She was also the Editor for FLY Magazine and setved that same capacity for BLACK CONFESSIONS and BLACK ROMANCE Magazines. She is also Associate Editor of True Confessions Magazine and winner of the EMMA Award for Best New Author in 2002. Narrative Voice - Elizabeth Gilchrist is the author of the novels Your Cheatin' Heart and Second Chances. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at UCSB, UT, and the Univ. of Florida at Miami where she was writer in residence and the coordinator of Writers on the Bay. This workshop will focus on the technique and inspiration involved in capturing the individual voice of the writer on the page whether for fiction or nonfiction. Creative Writing - Sheree Renée Thomas is the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Gold Pen Award, and editor of the anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary publications, and her work as a journalist and book critic has appeared in diverse national publications including the Washington Post Book World and Black Issues Book Review. Her book Dark Matter: Reading The Bones was published in January, 2004. Literary Non-Fiction/Memoir - Angeli Rasbury
is a writer, editor and
attorney. Her publications include: Sacred Fire: The QBR 100
Essential Black Books. Her magazine articles have appeared in Essence,
The Source, and Black
Issues Book Review and online at BET.com, Vibe.com and
womensenews.com. Her students have had work published in Cup of
Comfort, the Asian American Writers Workshop Journal and
Blacklines.com. Angeli won a DorisJean Austin Award from the Frederick
Douglass Creative Arts Center and has received several grants from the
Brooklyn Arts Council. Novel 2 - Jaira Placide (see Novel 1) Poetry - Jacqueline Johnson is a prize-winning poet and author of A Gathering of Mother Tongues. She is a former member of the Harlem Writers Guild and a founding member of New Renaissance Writers. Screenwriting 2 - Myla Churchill received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She won best screenplay for Hooch Haints at the Urbanworld Film Festival and for the short film Trapped in the 48 Hour Film Project. Her screenplay, The Judgement Days, was selected as a finalist for the IFP'S Gordon Parks Award. Myla is an associate professor at Long Island University and New York University.
Short Story - Sheree Renée Thomas (see creative writing) Playwriting - Sophia Romma (see screenwriting 1) Documentary 1 - Julia Dengel is a graduate of Columbia University and the co-founder and director of a non-profit media arts center in Colorado. She has taught numerous video production courses. She is currently in post-production on a documentary on Western water politics (funded by the Independent Television Service) and is shooting a feature length documentary in New York City. Narrative Filmmaking 1 - Terry Benes is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and the NYU Graduate Institute of Film and Television. She has been working as a producer, director and editor of both narrative and documentary films and television in NYC for over 25 years. She produced dramas for ABC, CBS, PBS, and HBO. She was the co-producer and assistant director of the feature film Enormous Changes at the Last Minute and has received an ACE award, a Gold Award from the International Film and TV Festival and an NEA Film Festival Award. Poetry - Dante Micheaux is a poet whose work has appeared in Release, Warpland and Cave Canem. He has been a guest poet of the LouderArts Project, The Church of St. John the Divine, the Publishing Triangle and City X-Posed. In 2002 he received a prize in poetry from the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. He served on the faculty of Foreign Languages at New School University. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of the John Donne/George Herbert Poetry Society. Soap
Opera Writing - Sojourna Collier
is an Emmy nominated
scriptwriter who has written for the award winning daytime dramas One
Life to Live and All My Children. Her film credits include The
Unbroken Circle and The Son of a Preacher Man. Writing and Pitching for Television - Jim Arnoff practiced entertainment law before joining the Business Affairs Department at the William Morris Agency in New York. There he was a television packaging agent representing television production companies in New York and LA. Jim now runs his own agency where he works with his clients creating original programming, securing creative/financial elements, arranging for network presentations and negotiating the production/financing agreements. His most recent packages include “Back Spin,” a one-hour pilot for Bravo, 12 animated segments produced by B3 Pictures for “Sesame Street,” and an animated film for The David Chappelle Show/Comedy Central. Freelancing for Magazines and Newspapers - Michel Marriott is a staff writer at the New York Times and has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a frequent contributor to the annual Men's Issue of Essence magazine, and has written for Esquire, Vibe, and African Voices. He received an M.A. in journalism from the prestigious Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Television Writing: Basic Techniques - Kermit Frazier,
B.A., M.A., Syracuse University, M.F.A., Tisch School of the Arts,
NYU, is a Eugene O’Neill Playwright, recipient of the McKnight
Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting and former head writer for the
CTW series Ghostwriter, and the Nickelodeon T.V. series Gullah,
Gullah Island. Advance Playwriting - Leslie Lee
is an Obie and
Drama Desk Award winning playwright, television writer and author of
stories for both children and adults. Leslie also teaches playwriting
at New York University and The New School University. Advance Playwriting - Steve
Carter
is the author of
the plays Nevis Mountain Dew, One Last Look, Dame Lorraine
and more than twenty others. Mr. Carter was a member of the NEC and
was the first Playwright-in-residence at Chicago's Victory Gardens
Theatre. He was honored by the National Black Theatre Festival in 2001
for his "outstanding contributions to Black Theatre. Screenwriting 3 - Myla Churchill (see screenwriting 2) Novel 3 - Kelli Martin (see Novel 2) Photography 1 - Paula Brooks, is a technology consultant and photographer. She received a BBA and MA from Howard University. She recently started an Internet Publishing company to showcase her lifestyle-oriented websites and digital media products. Photography 1 - Mali Olatunji, BS, Hofstra University, M.A., and PhD work, school of Education Department of Art and Art Professions, NYU, is a retired Fine Arts Photographer, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and a former part-time instructor at NYU. . about
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