Maureen Johnson
Maureen placed 3rd in the 2011 Contest
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Maureen Johnson is a recent graduate of UCLA's MFA screenwriting program. She has two works-for-hire currently in
development, including a Europe-based romcom with a producer connected
with Pathe. Another project, The
Lotto King, has received substantial interest in both America and
Australia. Another script in
development, a modern-day parody of a Jane Austen novel, is receiving interest
in England.
Maureen also has earned numerous awards and placements in screenplay contests,
including being a double-semifinalist in the 2009 Nicholl competition. While at UCLA, Maureen won the Bridget
and Bob Colleary Award for Best Romantic Comedy for a script entitled Life’s A Drag, about a drag queen who
thinks he’s going through menopause.
She also earned the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Other awards include semifinaling in
the 2011 Expo Screenwriting Contest (Wedding
Belles), and finaling in the 2010 Screenplay Search Competition for
a romcom entitled Bellini’s. Maureen prefers romcom though enjoys
period/historical pieces. Her award-winning script, Michelangelo and Davide, has been likened to Shakespeare in Love.
Maureen also excels in TV writing, being nominated for the Humanitas Student
Fellowship Award in 2009 and earning a top-5% placement for the 2007
Warner Bros. Television Workshop for a spec script of Two-And-A-Half Men.
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