Writer/Director/Producer; Founding Board Member
Filmmaker, screenwriter and educator with 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry, including film/tv, music, theatre, and the labor movement.
L.E.'s screenplays have won awards at various screenwriting competitions, including her feature film, MAX BECKER (recipient of Columbia University’s Milos Forman Fund Award and 2nd Rounder in the Austin Film Festival’s screenplay competition). She has directed for theatre and film, as well as produced several short film projects.
As an educator, she has taught film history/studies and screenwriting since 2003. Her academic work has been presented at national & international conferences. She has been guest speaker at the Greenwich Classic Film Series and was a featured film reviewer for SIU Reviews on WSIU public radio.
Besides bringing MAXINE to reality under ALMI's banner, she is currently writing her dissertation for a PhD in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University.
She is a member of NYWIFT, has served on the board of the Women in the Arts and Media Coalition and is a new board member of The Queen's Film Society in her hometown in TX. Find her on LinkedIn.