What Can I Say, A Dialogue Workshop

Event ID: L10244
Info: Jul 15 • Wed • 9:00am-4:00pm • 1 mtg • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $85
With: Ellen Sandler

Explore a highly practical set of tools and examples that will transform the way you write dialogue. These techniques are surprisingly simple, yet magically effective. They're easy to use and apply to any genre or style. Workshop includes lecture, professional examples, and in-class writing exercises.

Ellen Sandler has worked as a writer/producer on more than 25 network television comedies, including ABC's long-running series, Coach. In addition to staff work, she has created original pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Family, Oxygen, Disney Channel, and the Australian Children's Television Foundation. She received an Emmy nomination for her work as co-executive producer for the CBS hit Everybody Loves Raymond. Sandler is currently on the faculty of the USC School of Cinema-Television and is a popular seminar presenter at many writers' conferences. She appears annually at the annual Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles, where she is featured as a "star speaker." As script doctor and private career coach, Sandler provides custom-tailored services to her students and clients, many of whom have gone on to staff positions on hit television shows (Sex in the City, Men in Trees, Malcolm in the Middle, Everybody Hates Chris, The New Adventures of Old Christine). Others have gained acceptance in the Disney Writing Fellowship and Cosby Writing Fellowship, and have won prestigious writing competitions (Austin Film Festival, Scriptapalooza). Sandler began her career in New York as a playwright and director. Her recent theatrical productions in Los Angeles include Jewish Roots at the Hudson Theatre and How'd It Go? starring Megan Mullally at the HBO/Warner Bros. Workspace. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America.