Contributors

Guest Contributors to the SydField.com Blog and Articles

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Valerie Woods

WRITER, PRODUCER, AUTHOR

Ms. Woods began writing when, as a struggling actress in New York, she couldn’t find suitable audition material for women of color. This led her to write a book of audition monologues, Something for Everyone (50 Original Monologues). The book was initially self-published and is now published by renowned theatrical play publisher, Samuel French, Inc.

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Shari Goodhartz

WRITER, TEACHER, EDITOR, CONSULTANT

Ms. Goodhartz is a multi-award-nominated screenwriter who started her career as a TV Academy Summer Intern, where she learned that most of the people with producer credits on her favorite shows were also writers. Ms. Goodhartz then spent six years in the Corporate Communications Department of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., which transferred her from NY to LA to run the West Coast office of that department.

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Sharon Buckingham

WRITER, PRODUCER

Sharon Buckingham is a well-known screenwriter and producer with both television and feature credits. She teaches the Syd Field screenwriting method® and acts as a script editor and consultant.

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Natalia Lazarus

SCREENWRITER, ACTOR, DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE LOS ANGELES PERFORMING ARTS CONSERVATORY

Artistic Director, Natalia Lazarus is at the helm of The Promenade Playhouse and it’s subsidiaries: Promenade Conservatory, now LA Performing Arts Conservatory, a degree granting University. 3rd Street Comedy, The Promenade Players Theatre Company, and the Creative Keys to Success Series, the Acting, Writing, Directing and Personal Growth technique that she created and developed.

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Jim Hillin

SCREENWRITER & VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR

Jim came to Los Angeles in 1979 as an artist, animator and musician. He began his career in computer graphics at a small start-up company in 1985 in Pasadena, CA, while simultaneously attending The Art Center College of Design. He worked hard, learning the engineering side of the craft over the next several years while garnering his first television, location-based entertainment and feature film credits in the 1980s. In 1987, after helping a friend writing the ending of her film, he started writing his first screenplay.