I was a student at New York University's Institute of Film and Television in the 1970s. At NYU I was one year short of studying with Martin Scorsese, and I was in the same class as Amy Heckerling and Joel Silver, as a result of which someone in a bar in Reseda once bought me a drink.

I grew up with parents who met on the picket line at Disney Studios in 1941, and I spent almost thirty-five years in the labor movement on the staff of the Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE. About fifteen years ago I started taking classes with Joe Bratcher and Judy Farrell at the Twin Bridges Screenwriting Salon.

Since my retirement in 2013, my screenwriting has become a full-time occupation, if not (yet) a living.