Screenwriting
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James Ryan
James Ryan, founder of Insider Cultural Tours, is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and film director. The former Chair of the Playwriting Department, Actors Studio Drama School, he has taught at Rutgers, New York University, The New School, and Muhlenberg College. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State…
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Sallie Seltzer
Sallie Seltzer wrote and directed the comedy The Magazine in 1997.
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Lisa Kors
A first–generation kid raised in Yonkers, New York, Lisa Kors’s love of storytelling was shaped by a dad who played handball at the gym with FBI guys named “Bullet-Eye Phil” and a social worker mom whose clients kept finding dead bodies on the job. (Yonkers was a big garbage mafia town back then, so maybe…
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Don Leddy
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Chris Minichino
Chris Minichino spent 24 years as Junior Technician at the CJ Rittenhouse Cale Sèche in Ong’s Hat, New Jersey, where his primary duty was to scrape barnacles from the hulls of fishing boats. “Ong’s Hat is not a place,” says Chris, “but a frame of mind.” Prior to his barnacle-scraping gig, Chris was a manuscript…
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Christopher Momenee
Christopher Momenee is a screenwriter who has worked on the movies Senior Moment (2021) and William & Catherine: A Royal Romance (2011). Momenee received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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Anne Grant
Anne Grant wrote and produced the multimedia documentary The American Woman: Portraits of Courage, in 1976, which was developed from her book Our North American Foremothers.
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Rosemary De Angelis
Rosemary De Angelis was an American stage, screen, and television actress. De Angelis made her film debut at age 41 in Columbia Pictures’ For Pete’s Sake in 1974. She appeared in The Last Detail that same year and the PBS television special, Monkey, Monkey. In 1977, she played the role of the Mother in the play The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie at the Astor Place Theatre in New…
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Alan Brown
Alan Brown is the recipient of many writing and directing awards, including Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council for the Arts fellowships. His first film, O Beautiful, won the Future Filmmaker Award at the 2002 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Alan’s…