May 16, 2009: The Next Pro: Marilyn Horowitz
We are excited to announce the next pro will be NYU screenwriting professor Marilyn Horowitz.

Marilyn Horowitz is a NYU professor, writer, producer, writing coach, and script doctor. She won the New York University Award for Teaching Excellence in 2004.

Marilyn’s private writing students have gone on to sell scripts to Miramax, HBO, Hallmark Entertainment, and ABC, as well as gained admittance to the AFI Graduate Writing Program, Sundance Writers Lab, and the IFP Market’s No Borders Forum. Marilyn’s students have also won the 2002 and 2003 NYWIFT Screenplay Contests, placed highly in the Nicholl Fellowship, and were finalists in the Slamdance Film Festival and Austin Film Festival script competitions.

Marilyn has contributed articles to Screenwriter, Hollywood Scriptwriter, and Script Magazine, and has taught screenwriting seminars for New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), Film/Video Arts, WGA East, Independent Feature Project (IFP), HBO/Montage Entertainment, and the Lake Placid Film Festival. She is also the author of How to Write a Screenplay in Ten Weeks and Pushing the Script Towards Greatness, the workbooks used in her NYU classes.

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