About the Author

Neil Landau is a screenwriter, producer, author, and professor in the MFA in Screenwriting and Producing Programs at UCLA School of Film, Television, and Digital Media. His movie credits include the teen comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead; his TV credits include Doogie Howser, M.D., Melrose Place, The Magnificent Seven, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Twice in a Lifetime, and MTV’s Undressed and pilot deals at CBS, Disney, Freeman-tle, Lifetime, Spelling, and Warner Bros. Television. He served as Executive Script Consultant for several years for Sony Pictures Television International, is a faculty member in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and just won a Spanish Academy (“Goya”) Award for best screenplay adaptation for the animated movie Tad the Lost Explorer (2012); he is currently working on the sequel and on a new animated movie for Paramount: Capture the Flag.