Former actress and theater director Christina Hamlett is an award winning author and script coverage consultant whose credits include 25 books, 123 plays and musicals, 5 optioned films and columns that appear throughout the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, her interviews with film industry professionals are a regular feature in SCREENTALK magazine and a popular topic in her national, local and online writing workshops.

Hamlett is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento, where her degree in Communications led to stints in all aspects of media, including cable television, radio mystery theater, and fundraising campaigns. She was also the manager and director of The Hamlett Players, a touring repertory company that not only provided performance opportunities for new actors but took original stage plays into communities not served by traditional theater arts organizations. She credits her mentor, the late Sylvia Burack, for her ongoing love of--and commitment to--the live theater experience. In addition to continuing to pen one-acts for PLAYS, INC., she has won awards for her full-length scripts and participated in living history programs through the California Governor's Mansion, Sutter's Fort, and Southern California's Heritage Square.

Her book "Could It Be A Movie" (Michael Wiese Productions, Publisher) was released in Winter 2004 and contains everything an aspiring screenwriter needs to know about how to get an idea out of his/her head and up on the screen. In the meantime, don't let the title of her last book, "ScreenTEENwriters," fool you. The idea-starter exercises contained throughout can be used in independent study, film camp, or classroom and are supplemented by plenty of been there/done that advice from industry pros. (Available through Amazon.com or directly from www.meriwetherpublishing.com.) Hamlett's critique services and one-on-one mentoring address the areas of dialogue, character development, structure, pacing, originality, marketability and recommendations for direct submission, film festivals, and scriptwriting competitions. Student and subscriber discounts are available upon request. She can be contacted directly at scriptingsuccess@cswebmail.com. (Queries only please. Unsolicited scripts or attachments will be deleted.)

 

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