featured writer: Jeremy Kehoe
Jeremy is a playwright whose staged work includes "Killing Russell Crowe", "Ready, Aim, You're Fired", "The Water Board" and "Idea Man". Jeremy has had multiple stage readings of various plays in theaters in Los Angeles and New York. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and is a member of the Artistic Committee of Fierce Backbone theater.Jeremy is a former newspaper editor and reporter, where he earned awards from the NAACP and the New England Press Association. Roberts Publishing named him a Silver Quill Award winner for his poem, "I Suck At Yahztee". He has also published byline articles for national newspapers and magazines and written speeches, press materials, and award-winning print materials.
As a freelance writer, Jeremy has published articles in numerous national newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post- Gazette and Sacramento News & Review. As a public relations executive Jeremy led media, marketing, advertising, employee, analyst, investor, shareholder, corporate restructuring and crisis communications campaigns for Internet start-ups to Fortune 500 firms.
In his previous life Jeremy led the launch of multiple consumer and investor relations Web sites, managed investor, analyst, employee and media outreach campaigns, wrote and created online and offline marketing and advertising materials, edited online editorial copy and served as lead media spokesman. As a vice president at a top-five public relations firm, he provided strategic counsel and directed media, brand identity, crisis and community relations campaigns for such clients as FedEx, IBM, Visa, and Nextel. Jeremy received a BA/Journalism from Boston University's College of Communication.
featured writer: T. S. Cook
Following a long career in Film and Television writing, playwright T.S. Cook has been focusing in recent years on the stage. His first contemporary play, "Ravensridge" had its world premiere at the Fremont Centre Theater in Pasadena in 2008. It ran six weeks to full houses and received excellent reviews in the LA Times and Variety.Tom is a founding member and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fierce Backbone Theater Company, a three-year-old LA-based group which is devoted to the development of new plays. He is also a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA, where his play "Guest of the Sultan" had a high-profile reading in late 2010.
His short play, "The Ghost," was featured at EST-LA's Studio Six series in 2010. His play "Everything But" had a successful workshop production in late 2009. In December of 2011, his solo show, "The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Lone Fishermen Who Have Found Dead Bodies" had a very well-received performance at a Fierce Backbone benefit.
Tom is a graduate of Denison University (BA) and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA). He has been nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy and has won several Writers Guild awards (See full credits under "T.S. Cook" at www.imdb.com). He is frequently asked to teach play and screen writing. He recently taught sections at the USC-based Muslim Public Affairs Council Screenwriting Workshop.
featured writer: amy tofte
Amy received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Writing for Performance program and was the first CalArts playwright selected for the Kennedy Center's MFA Playwrights Residency during the summer of 2009. She also spent the last three summers at the Last Frontier Theatre Festival in Valdez, AK (2009, 2010, 2011) and has been produced twice at Edinburgh International Fringe Festival with FLOOZY in 2010 and Flesh Eating Tiger in 2011.Ms. Tofte is a big believer in the development process and a physical approach to understanding characters and the writing impulse. Amy is a founding member of Fierce Backbone, and a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. She is very prolific and is probably writing or directing something as you're looking at this.
Find out more about Amy Tofte on her website.