View Completed Scripts - TV and Features - If you are a development executive, agent, manager, or producer, please email us to request a script: hwp@harvardwood.org

The Harvardwood Seminar Series
If you are looking for our lectures open to the public, please check out our Seminar Series. We regularly host industry experts and non-members are warmly welcome to attend. You may also sign-up to get our weekly newsletter of events here: Join for free as an Affiliate


CURRENT MODULES

Los Angeles

FICTION - Ongoing, Los Angeles
The group meets on a regular basis to workshop manuscripts as well as to host guest speakers. If you are an interested writer (literary only, please), please click here for application or email: hwpfiction@harvardwood.org

FEATURE SCREENWRITING - Fall 2010, Los Angeles
The group will meet on alternate Tuesday evenings and the idea will be for each member to set their own goals – turning a treatment into a draft, turning a draft into a polished script, etc. Writers who meet all program requirements will have the option to post their work to the Harvardwood script menu. Also, for the first time we are considering mounting a final showcase performance of screenplay excerpts, with the cooperation of the newly-formed Harvard Actors’ Program. Similar showcases for the TV group have been enormously successful. Click here for more info or email, Lane Shadgett at hwpfeatures@harvardwood.org to participate.

TV WRITING - Fall 2010, Los Angeles
These Modules use peer-review, guest speakers and workshops to help take your TV project from concept to completion. Modules are available for specs, pilots and rewriting. Both One-Hour and Half-Hour (drama and comedy) ideas are welcome. Deadline for application to the 2010-2011 program is Wednesday, August 23 - APPLY HERE. If you have further questions, please contact, Allison Kiessling at hwp@harvardwood.org

ACTORS READING WRITERS - Ongoing, Los Angeles
Meeting the Third Thursday of every month (7-10PM), Harvardwood Actors gather to read Harvardwood writers' works-in-progress. Open to all Harvardwood writers - this is a great way to polish your first 25 pages and get connected to up and coming talent. To participate, please email: actors@harvardwood.org

The Harvardwood Showcase

FEATURES AND TV PILOTS - Spring, Los Angeles
A 90 minute, staged reading of scenes from original work by Harvardwood writers in collaboration with Harvardwood Actors. This event is invitation only. More info at: http://www.harvardwoodshowcase.org | hwp@harvardwood.org

New York

SCREENWRITING & PLAYWRITING - Fall/Winter 2009/10, New York
Led by Michael Robin and Yannis Kyriazis, this group has been a great success.  It's about to re-launch and welcomes new members.  The group meets approximately twice a month (sometimes Saturday afternoons, sometimes weekday evenings).  If you're already a member of this group, there's no need to re-register (but do make sure your Harvardwood membership is up to date).  If you'd like to join, email nyc@harvardwood.org.

PROSE NON-FICTION - Summer 2010, New York
Led by a veteran author and foreign correspondent (NY Times, CBS News, now editor-in-chief of World Policy Journal) David Andelman, this will focus on large and small-scale prose non-fiction of all varieties--including magazine, newspaper, and online. Story selection, writing, structure, and marketability will all be addressed, and writers will be encouraged to critique the work of their fellow authors (constructively, of course!). nyc@harvardwood.org

COMEDY WRITING - Fall/Winter 2009/10, New York
Led by Dawn Fraser, this group will welcome comedy writing of all sorts, including sketches, essays/memoirs, sitcoms, storytelling, and stand up. nyc@harvardwood.org

WRITING FOR TELEVISION - Summer 2010, New York
Led by Liz Levy, this will welcome writers interested in both comic and dramatic television writing. Other episodic endeavors, such as web series, are welcome as well! nyc@harvardwood.org


Boston

FEATURE SCREENWRITING - Fall/Winter 2010/11, Boston
Writing a new screenplay? Want to workshop an existing screenplay? Sign up to join the 2010-11 Boston feature screenwriting workshop. We will meet near Harvard Square every other Thursday evening from 7-9pm, Sept. 23 - Feb. 17 (holidays excluded). Full participants will be able to meet with producers, agents, and professional writers, as well as submit a complete work to the 2011 Harvardwood Features Showcase and Script Menu next spring. Contact Matt Weinberg for more info or to join the workshop: matt_weinberg@post.harvard.edu. Requirements: You must be a dues-current Full Member of Harvardwood. Full Members will be charged a nominal fee for the workshop, mainly as a budget for refreshments, etc.

Washington DC

FEATURE SCREENWRITING and NOVELS - **NEW!** Summer 2010, DC
The HARVARDWOOD WRITERS' PROGRAM is coming to DC! A new workshop will begin in June, focused on long-format fiction, primarily feature screenwriting and novels. The group will meet on alternate Tuesday evenings, and the idea will be for each member to set their own goals -- completing a first draft, polishing final drafts in preparation for the marketplace, etc. The workshop leader will work with novelists to help them effectively present their manuscripts to agents and publishers. Screenwriters who are Full Members of Harvardwood and who meet all program requirements will have the option to post their work to the Harvardwood script menu. Screenplays will also be eligible for the writers' showcase in LA next April. We have a mandatory introductory meeting on the evening of JUNE 29th to set goals and discuss group format. Regular meetings will begin thereafter. Members will be charged a nominal fee mainly as a budget for refreshments, etc. If you are interested, or have any questions, please contact hwpwashington@harvardwood.org.

PLEASE NOTE: Only Full Members and registered Friends of Harvardwood (on a case-by-case basis) can submit their finished work to the Harvardwood Script Menu and for consideration in the Harvardwood Writers' Showcases each Spring. If you are an Affiliate and wish to upgrade to Full Member status, please click here. If you are new to Harvardwood and wish to join, please register as a Full Member, Affiliate, or Friend of Harvardwood.

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HWP writer Ian Hoorneman (L.) takes notes as alum guest speaker Carlton Cuse (R.) shares an anecdote.

PREVIOUS HWP SPEAKERS

FILM

Meredith Bagby ’95 (exec, Dreamworks)

Stacy Cohen ’89 (producer, DREAMER)

Alex Franklin ’96 (exec, The Weinstein Co)

Sean O’Keefe ’95 (KING TUT)

Keir Pearson ’89 (HOTEL RWANDA)

Peter Rader ’82 (WATERWORLD)

Jeff Schaffer ’91 (EUROTRIP)

Josh Simon ’00 (exec, Disney)

Massy Tadjedin ‘99 (THE JACKET)

Ed Zwick '74 (GLORY, LEGENDS OF THE FALL, THE LAST SAMURAI, BLOOD DIAMOND)

TV DRAMA

Neal Baer GSE ’79 (LAW & ORDER: SVU)

Peter Blake ’91 (HOUSE)

Carlton Cuse ’81 (LOST)

Abram Hatch ’96 (exec, Darren Star Prods.)

Glenn Kessler ‘92 (RHD/LA)

Todd A. Kessler ’94 (THE SOPRANOS, PROVIDENCE)

Amy Retzinger ’95 (agent, Gersh)

Jeff Melvoin (EP, ARMY WIVES)

Mark Goffmann (THE BEAST, WEST WING)

Dawn DeNoon (LAW & ORDER: SVU)

Tom Smuts (CLOSE TO HOME)

Nicky Weinstock (exec, Apatow, Fox)

Thania St. John (EUREKA)

Jeff Davis (CRIMINAL MINDS)

Melinda Hsu (LOST)

Zadoc Angell (Agent, Paradigm)

Terence Carter (Exec, Fox)

TV COMEDY

Carolyn Cassidy ’99 (exec, NBC)

Vali Chandrasekaran ’03 (MY NAME IS EARL)

Danny Chun ’03 (THE SIMPSONS, THE OFFICE)

Jason Gelles ’96 (EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND)

Dan O’Keefe ’90 (THE DREW CAREY SHOW, SEINFELD)

Matt Warburton ’02 (THE SIMPSONS)

Adam Fratto (Harvardwood Board)

Cort Cass (ABC Comedy)

David Garrett (LIVING WITH FRAN)

Harris Goldberg (NUMB)