Founder & Executive Producer

Technologist

Journalist

Screenwriter

Quendrith Johnson

Screenmancer Founder & Executive Producer

Venice Beach (Silicon Beach), Los Angeles, CA — since 1992

Los Angeles-based technologist, journalist, and screenwriter. UCLA Film School graduate. Founder of Screenmancer since 1997 — pioneering the intersection of Hollywood insider journalism and digital media. Listed in the MPAA Domestic Press Directory and featured in Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology.

Career Highlights

A career spanning print, digital, and entertainment journalism across two continents.

Globe Correspondent & Events Editor

Boston Phoenix

Associate Editor

Boston Business Journal

New Products Editor

California Builder

Writer / Interviewer

Fancast / Xfinity.tv (Comcast/NBC Universal)

Lead Writer

Awards Intelligencer, New York

Correspondent

FilmFestivals.com, France

Panel Moderator — Screenwriting

Raleigh Studios / IFFilmFest.org

PSA Writer for PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

Awards & Recognition

A decorated literary and screenwriting career spanning from poetry to the Academy.

Nicholl Semi-Finalist

'Jazz Age Doll' — listed on Academy's website, 1997

Marty Klein Comedy Award

From APA (Agency for Performing Arts)

UCLA Samuel Goldwyn Awards

Nod for screenwriting excellence

Ted Berrigan Award

Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO — studied with Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman

Chester McNaughten Award

Literature (Poetry), McGill University — also won by Leonard Cohen

Peterson Memorial Award

Poetry, McGill University

Breadloaf Writer's Conference

Fiction scholarship — conference started by Robert Frost at Middlebury College

Gordon Lish Student

Work included in Lish's personal papers at University of Indiana; contributed to The Q at Knopf

Books

Author

Redlight, Greenlight, Limelight

Red Carpet Adventures & Hollywood Journalism 101

Featured

Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology

by Vivek Wadhwa & Farai Chideya (2014)

Education & Literary Roots

UCLA Film School

Graduate — Screenwriting

McGill University

Undergrad — won Chester McNaughten Award for Literature (Poetry) and Peterson Memorial Award; also once won by Leonard Cohen

Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics — studied with Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman; performed live with Marianne Faithfull; won the Ted Berrigan Award

Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Middlebury College

Fiction scholarship — conference founded by Robert Frost

Student of Gordon Lish

Work in galleys for The Q, Knopf imprint; included in Lish's personal papers at University of Indiana. Lish was Raymond Carver's editor.

Publications & Media

Los Angeles Times (1992–2001)

The Boston Globe

Newsday

DGA Magazine

FilmFestivals.com (France)

Fancast / Xfinity.tv (Comcast/NBC Universal)

Awards Intelligencer (New York)

Queen's Quarterly — 100th Anniversary Edition

Rubicon (Canada)

Scrivener

Manifesto — Jack Kerouac School, Naropa Institute

The Journal of English Philology

Conceptions Southwest (Univ. of New Mexico)

Also listed in the MPAA Domestic Press Directory. Past member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and LA Press Club.

Notable Collaborations & Moments

→ Collaborated with Gore Vidal — also released his letter urging President Obama to meet with Parsi leaders in Iran via Screenmancer
→ AFI's MOW Workshop for ABC
→ Performed live a cappella poetry with Marianne Faithfull at Naropa Institute, with most then-living Beat Generation legends in attendance
→ Nicholl Semi-Finalist script "Jazz Age Doll" listed on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences website, 1997
→ Co-creator and Ambassador for Innovating Women in Technology
→ First published at age 19 in Conceptions Southwest; first playwriting mention at age 15 from Albuquerque Little Theater

"Free Your Mind & Your Screenplay Will Follow"

— Quendrith Johnson, Screenmancer Founder