Jonathan Dorf

Playwright, Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Teacher

Personal Details

Name: Jonathan Dorf

Last visit: Nov 1, 2009

Contact: Send message

Web site: Click here

Books

Lord of the Rings, the Hitchhiker's Guide series, anything by Bill Bryson

Movies

Lord of the Rings, Mysterious Skin and many, many more coming soon.

Television

The Wire, Boston Legal, Weeds, Rome, Entourage, United States of Tara

About Me

Jonathan Dorf is the author of Young Playwrights 101, a book for young playwrights, those who teach them, and for anyone who wants straight-shooting advice about dramatic writing. His own plays have been seen in more than 40 states, as well as in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has been a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award and has worked with such companies as the Walnut Street Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Ensemble Studio Theatre - LA, Moving Arts and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. He is published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Eldridge Publishing, Meriwether, Original Works and Smith & Kraus, is the resident playwriting expert for scriptwriting software leader Final Draft (for whom he created the playwriting "Ask the Expert") and The Writers Store (creator of Playwriting101.com, one of the internet's most popular playwriting sites), the co-chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and the former managing director of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center. He has been Visiting Associate Professor of Theatre in the MFA playwriting program at Hollins University, United States Cultural Envoy to Barbados, and a guest artist at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab West, the International Thespian Festival, Tennessee Arts Academy and at schools across the United States. He is also a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. For screen, he has written a trio of produced shorts, as well as a number of feature scripts. He holds a BA in Dramatic Writing and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA.

Services

Editing / Proofing
Fee: $2.75 to $3.50 per page

Notes
Fee: $2.25 to $6.00 per page

Playwriting Instruction On-Demand
Fee: $70.00 per hour

Professional Experience

Teacher
Writers University
August 2005 - Present

Teacher of Introduction to Playwriting, a course for beginning and intermediate playwrights, as part of Writers University. For more information, visit www.writersuniversity.com.

Script Analyst
January 2000 - Present

I provide consulting services on plays and screenplays, as well as on types of writing. Please visit me on the web at http://thewriteconsultant.com.

Playwright
January 1989 - Present

Writer of dozens of plays, from 10-minute duets to full-length dramas and comedies, with a particular interest in writing plays for young actors and audiences.