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Tom
Sawyer has written over 100 network television
episodes, and nine pilot scripts. He has served
as Producer, Creative Consultant or Story Editor
on 15 network television series. He was Producer/Head
Writer for the long-running CBS hit, Murder,
She Wrote, for which he wrote 24 episodes.
Mr.
Sawyer has been nominated for an Edgar by the
Mystery Writers of America, and his song lyrics
earned him an Emmy nomination. His short film,
Reunion, was honored by the New York, Rochester
and Edinburgh Film Festivals. Alice Goodbody,
a theatrical feature which Mr. Sawyer wrote,
directed and produced was in release for 17
years. He has directed theater in New York and
Los Angeles.
He is
co-author/lyricist of Jack, a contemporary opera
about John F. Kennedy that has been staged at
the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut and
at the University of Oklahoma. Jack opened in
Dublin in April, 1997, prior to going to London's
West End and then to Broadway.
Mr.
Sawyer has taught creative writing at UCLA Extension,
and has lectured extensively on screenwriting
and fiction writing at various universities
and writers conferences.
Mr. Sawyer knows storytelling! Here's what he
says about Plotting:
"Any student of fiction is aware that there
are no new stories or plots; they were all used
up by the time Shakespeare packed it in. But
the way each writer views the world - through
his or her own unique filters - the individual
spin we put on these tried and true stories
is what makes them our own, whether we're turning
Cinderella into My Fair Lady or Pretty Woman,
translating Pagliacci into an episode of Murder,
She Wrote, or folding The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf'
into a Seinfeld episode. That's what PLOTS
UNLIMITED is all
about."
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