Contributors
- Contributors
John Auerbach is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America East and has written for film and television since 1986. He served on the Writers Guild's MBA Negotiating Committees in 2001 and 2004.
Jan Oxenberg made the seminal independent film Thank You and Good Night and has extensive experience as a writer/producer for television. Among the programs for which she has written and/or produced are Chicago Hope, Roswell, Once and Again, Robbery Homicide Division, and Cold Case.
José Rivera has written many plays, including Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, for which he received Obie Awards, Off-Broadway's highest honor. His television work includes the critically lauded NBC series Eerie, Indiana, which he cocreated and produced. He has also written teleplays, among them an adaptation of his own The House of Ramon Iglesia (for PBS) and feature screenplays. His screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries was nominated for an Oscar and a Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and won the Goya (Spain's Academy Award).
Howard Rodman is a professor and chair of the Division of Writing at USC's School of Cinema-Television. He has been an artistic director of the Sundance Screenwrit-ing Labs and serves on the board of the Writers Guild of America west. His film Joe Gould's Secret opened the 2000 Sundance Festival. [End Page 106]
James Schamus is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, producer, and film executive and an associate professor in Columbia University's School of the Arts. His long collaboration as writer and producer for Ang Lee has resulted in eight films, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and The Ice Storm; their ninth film, Brokeback Mountain, has just been released. As copresident of Focus Features, Schamus has overseen the financing, production, and distribution of these and other Oscar-winning films, including The Pianist and Lost in Translation.
Sydnye White is an Emmy-nominated writer/producer who joined New River Media in February 2001. She is currently the producer of the award-winning PBS series Moneywise with Kelvin Boston. White has worked in television production since 1992, on such shows as Fox Television's America's Most Wanted, NBC Nightly News, and BET's Teen Summit. Her documentary credits include Detroit SWAT for the Discovery Channel and Great Books: The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Understanding: Race for the Learning Channel. She has worked on numerous other PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, and Learning Channel programs as well. [End Page 107]
