May 17-21, 2010
at the University of Oklahoma

This class is now full

This one week, intensive, course is aimed at the conception, planning and writing of a screenplay. Through a series of lectures, writing exercises, treatments in-class readings and film clips, the student will be expected to start their original screenplay. The class will also be concerned with the basics of character, narrative, dramatic structure, thematics, genre and the ability to visualize in writing. Click here for syllabus

Kevin Mahoney (M. F. A. Indiana University) is film / theatre professor, screenwriter and playwright. He has worked for CBS Entertainment, Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures, among others. As a playwright, Kevin has been a member of the Los Angeles’ Playwrights and Company, the Beverly Hills’ Free Theatre, and the Lee Strasberg Center. His film, CLAYTON, was sold to Pimlico Productions at the Cannes Film Festival and will receive a staged reading by the Screen Actors Guild of Houston, Texas.. After twenty years in Los Angeles, Kevin moved to his hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, to serve as the interim Executive Director of the Sooner Theatre, an historic 555 seat Equity waiver theatre. Shortly thereafter, he began teaching for the University of Oklahoma’s Film and Video Studies Program, where he taught Screenwriting, Television Writing, and The History and Evolution of American Television. He has served as a finalist judge for both the National Cowboy Hall of Fame’s Western Heritage Awards and for the Duke City Shootout, America’s longest running script-to-screen festival. In August, Kevin’s play, “Sorority Queen In A Mobile Home,” written with Michael DiGaetano, opened at the SoHo Playhouse off-Broadway. It is scheduled for a Los Angeles run later this year.

Kevin has been named one of the top screenwriting gurus in the United States by www.scriptpaladin.net. He has guest lectured across the United States, including the Harwood Museum (Taos, New Mexico), San Francisco State University, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Santa Fe Screenwriters’ Conference, the Oklahoma Scholars’ Leadership Enrichment Program, and the Dallas Screenwriters’ Association, among others. For the last five years, Kevin has served as the Coordinator of the Film, Video and Theatre Programs at the University of New Mexico - Taos. He is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild, Writers’ Guild, and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.