Beverly Neufeld

Beverly Neufeld received her MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA where she won first place in the Samuel Goldwyn competition for her feature, Brown Widow. She now teaches Screenwriting and script coverage at USC making her a Brojan? (Bruin + Trojan). She has won numerous screenwriting and TV writing competitions including Slamdance, the Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting award and Final Draft. Other TV pilots and specs have won or placed in the Nicholls, the Warner Brother’s competition and more. Beverly has written for the children’s web show, The Gummy Bear Show, the series The Dating Chronicles, and has been hired to rewrite over six features, including the independent film,Wajdja, by the first Saudi Arabian female filmmaker, Haifaa al Mansour.

She has co-written a film that wrapped production, Action! Action! and the episode Healing for the TV series, Cornucopia, and has two sitcoms and a feature in development at Branded Pictures Entertainment.

Beverly has also worked in development and as a reader and screenplay consultant for over 7,000 scripts. She was the Director of Development for Juntobox Films under Nina Yang and Forest Whittaker, and worked for such companies as Slamdance Films, CAA, FOX, Gersh, Coverage Ink, The Page Competition, Roadmap Writers, etc. She also does private consultations and judges screenwriting competitions. Beverly has taught coverage workshops online, contributes to writing blogs and magazines, and has spoken on quite a few panels. She loves a good funny cat meme and huge quantities of chocolate.