About ScreenwritingU
ScreenwritingU's mission: Design and deliver the best screenwriting classes in the World while assisting screenwriters to break into the industry.
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Named in "Top 9 Screenwriting Courses" on the Net by Script Magazine.
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Over 80,000 screenwriters receive our newsletter (sign up here).
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20,000 screenwriters on Twitter (between ScreenplayTips and ScreenwritingU)
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Over 100 ProSeries Alumni have been optioned, sold, or produced in the last two years (See Screenwriters to Watch).
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17 screenwriting classes (10 available to public, 7 are PSA only)
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Maintains the ProSeries Alumni -- A private community of writers who collaborate together with an intense focus on breaking into the industry.
HAL CROASMUN
Hal is the President of ScreenwritingU.
From 1989 - 2000, Hal owned and operated Beyond Learning Training Technologies where he designed training programs for over 125 major corporations including Boeing, NASA, National Car Rental, RTM (Arbys), Iomega, CompUSA, Glaxo Smith Klein, and many others.
His speciality is "Expert Models" that are derived from observing and interviewing the top performers in a market, then teaching the rest of the organization to perform at that level.
In 2000, Hal began the process of interviewing over 500 Hollywood producers to design screenwriting programs that make it easy for writers to create amazing screenplays. His speciality is taking complex subjects like subtext, high concept, and creating characters for movie stars, and breaking them down into simple steps and processes.
In the last eight years, he has:
- Designed 17 screenwriting classes including the famous ProSeries class.
- Interviewed over 500 Hollywood producers, agents, and A-list screenwriters.
- Helped over 100 writers break in the last two years (see Screenwriters to Watch page).
- Assisted more than 50 screenwriters through the deal making process with producers.
CHERYL CROASMUN
Cheryl Croasmun is VP of Marketing for ScreenwritingU.
Cheryl joined Beyond Learning in 1996 and quickly rose through the ranks to become a VP with accounts at Motorola, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Apple Computer, and other large corporations.
A producer at Class 3 Entertainment, Cheryl has relationships with over 60 major production companies on the lots of Studios and Networks.
At ScreenwritingU, she puts together joint-ventures and strategic partnerships that forward the vision and operations of ScreenwritingU.
If you have a screenwriting-related site or blog and would like to work with ScreenwritingU, contact Cheryl here.
DIMITRI DAVIS
Dimitri Davis is the Assistant at ScreenwritingU.
Joining ScreenwritingU over two years ago, he performs much of of the daily communications with ScreenwritingU's students and helps with background administrative and development work.
Dimitri also works as a reader for Class 3 Entertainment.
From his experience with reading scripts and ScreenwritingU's classes, he began doing script consulting, and has recently received his first paid writing assignment.
