Edward Pomerantz

Edward Pomerantz wrote the movie CAUGHT based on his novel INTO IT, a Sundance Centerpiece Premiere, directed by Robert M. Young, starring Edward James Olmos and Maria Conchita Alonso, released by Sony Pictures Classics and nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. His play/feast BRISBURIAL was produced by the New Federal Theatre, and his play ELECTRA THE REWRITE, a wild mix of Greek Tragedy, Vaudeville, and Bob Hope Road Movies, was staged in Greece at the Athens Fringe Festival. He has written over 35 commissioned screenplays and teleplays, and has received two Writers Guild Awards and two Fulbright Specialist Grants at State Theater Academies in Russia and Poland. His screenplay REAL LOVE won the Best Screenplay Award at the Stockholm Independent Film Festival and his LA COMIDA won the London Discover Film Festival Award for Best International Short Film. He is the Founder and Director of the Harlem Dramatic Writing Workshop and teaches Writing For Television at SUNY-Purchase. He has also been a Visiting Writer, Mentor, and Creative Advisor at international screenwriting labs in Cuba, Mexico, Germany, England, Spain, and Brazil. DANCING ON QUICKSAND is a published collection of his plays, and THREE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS by Edward Pomerantz is a published collection of his screenplays.