bioContent =	'      <p> <strong>Credits/Important Assignments:</strong>';
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bioContent +=	'       <li>Legally Blonde The Musical (TONY Nomination)</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>Consulting Producer - Legally Blond the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods (MTV)</li>';
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bioContent +=	'      <p> <strong>Films currently in Development for Touchstone Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.</strong>';
bioContent +=	'      <ul>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>FREAKY FRIDAY (remake) for Disney</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>OH HAPPY DAY (pitch sale) for Disney/Mandeville Films</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>IN THE PINK (rewrite) for Revolution Studios</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>THE GOVERNOR\'S WIFE, Disney/Mandeville Film</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>MODERN GIRL (pitch sale) for The Firm</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>&quot;Live Better&quot; (pilot sale) for Sony Television Studios</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>In the Drink, book adaptation with Endgame Entertainment</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>Legally Blonde: The Musical (book portion) for Fox Theatricals and Broadway</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>CHEER UP rewrite, Revolution Studios</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>1999 Disney Screenwriting Fellowship Recipient (I won with the script I first wrote in Writers Boot Camp entitled I USED TO BE AN HONOR STUDENT)</li>';
bioContent +=	'       <li>THERE&rsquo;S A POP DIVA LOOSE IN THE CAFETERIA for DreamWorks with Team Todd producing </li>';
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bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>Formative Creative Experiences:</strong> I was always writing short stories, drawing, and putting on plays as a kid. I even concocted a screenplay idea in which Princess Leia and Luke would have a child -- that would magically be me --and that child would grow up magically fast so I could be Han Solo\'s intergalactic lover. I wrote another script entitled BIG LOVE TO LITTLE LOVE that paired me romantically with John Travolta -- and I honestly never realized the creepy pedophiliac quality to such a project. Thankfully, my impetus for projects isn\'t about securing potential dates anymore.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>Influential Movies or TV Shows:</strong> Too many to note, but off the bat, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, REAR WINDOW, BOTTLE ROCKET, SPINAL TAP, CINEMA PARADISO, MY LIFE AS A DOG, and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS. I adored Johnny Quest as a kid but haven\'t seen Johnny (or Ace or Bandit\'s) influence in my work. Saturday Night Live -- even the grim mid 80s years -- has always provided comedic inspiration and reminds me weekly why I love comedy so. Love Boat screwed up my expectations for romance but that\'s another story.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>Comment on your WBC Experience:</strong> I started Writers Boot Camp about a week after I rolled into Los Angeles. Immediately, it provided a web of support and the tools necessary to actually write a complete screenplay. It was exciting to have a finished draft in a mere six weeks; it gave me the confidence to know I was on the right path and could do it.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>What are your favorite WBC tools?</strong> I still use the 3-6-3 method.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>How you got your start in the business:</strong> My dad\'s good friend and track partner in high school, Neil Thompson, was a producer on Caroline in the City. I was sending him my spec Friends scripts, and he got me my first job as a production secretary. I was dreadful at setting up conference calls but grateful for the appointment. It led to a position as a writer\'s assistant on the TV show Dilbert. I won the Disney Fellowship a couple of months later, and got to focus exclusively on my writing ever since.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>Describe the Transition Stages of Your Career:</strong> After the Disney Fellowship yearlong stint expired -- along with the weekly paychecks -- I floundered temporarily. Endeavor had signed me, but it took a while to line up the FREAKY FRIDAY assignment. Fortunately, Nina Jacobson (President of Buena Vista motion picture division) read a script I wrote during the Fellowship entitled NOT KAPPA MATERIAL, and was a proponent of my work.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>How many hours per week do you devote to your creative work:</strong> Depends on the week. When I\'m in full-throttle, productive mode, I\'m at my computer in spurts all day. I write in bursts and then have to leave the computer (only to return rather quickly) and I never really know how many hours I\'m actually there writing. I just try to gauge whether what I\'m writing is actually good or bad sludge that I\'m writing simply because I know I should be producing. On average, about 2-7 hours a day.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>What biases or preferences do you have regarding the writing process?</strong> Writing for me is still a big mystery, and for a while I fought myself trying to figure out exactly how I\'m productive and what schedule I should follow because I read some other great writer does X or Y, but I\'ve tried to just let that go. You have to believe in yourself and free yourself up enough to know you\'ll never figure out exactly how or why writing works. When it does, you feel it in the energy in which you strike the keys, hear a line of dialogue that makes you laugh out loud -- I have given up trying to dissect how I do this. I know one thing: You know when it\'s working.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>Do you have any special rituals, places you write, etc.?</strong> I used to be slave to Diet Mt. Dew and thought the magical drink in the 20-ounce plastic bottle brought me writing power. It absolutely had to be by my side. I have given that up and am shocked I can still write -- usually a bit in the morning until my dogs drag me out for a morning walk, and I\'m at my computer on and off all day. I\'m never at my computer for eight hours straight.</p>';
bioContent +=	'     <p><strong>Do you have anything you\'d like to say about LA or the entertainment world?</strong> Learn how to be good in the room. I did improv comedy for years and it\'s helped tremendously with pitches and general meetings. I\'m not saying you have to be this professional Ruth Buzzie hoot, but being comfortable and fun makes people want to work with you. Also, if writing isn\'t something that you always gravitated toward, it\'s probably not for you. I can\'t understand people who are nonchalant about film and have written an occasional poem who think they\'ll become the next Robert Towne. Watch lots of great movies --foreign, old, everything. Even bad movies are instructional. And learn to trust yourself and find your own voice -- something about your style has got to sparkle on the page and have a unique stamp to rise above the stacks and stacks of scripts in every development person\'s office. Also: Believe in and get genuinely excited about what you write. If you\'re writing something because you\'ve heard Julia Stiles is desperately looking for a 24-year-old lead\'s urban dramedy, the lack of connection will show in your writing.<br>';
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