FACULTY G - I
Sean Gaffney (Act One Graduate) is a playwright, screenwriter, director, teacher and producer. He has authored twenty produced plays, two television pilots, three published books, as well as twenty plus produced videos, animation projects and short films (including for Big Idea, SuperBook, Yake Films and Globalstage). He received his BFA from Drake University, his MFA from Columbia University, and graduated from the Act One: Writing for Hollywood program. Sean’s day job is as Story Administrator for Warner Brothers features. More information is available at www.gaffneyinkwell.com.
Anne Marie Gillen, CEO of Gillen Group, LLC, is an independent producer whose goal is to develop and produce commercially successful entertainment that enlightens the human experience. Gillen Group’s consulting division, established in 2006, offers business planning, offerings, script analysis and internal
greenlighting services to independent film producers and investors. Anne Marie also served as COO for Morgan Freeman’s company, Revelations Entertainment. During her time there, the company produced Along Came A Spider (Paramount Pictures). She also developed Port Chicago Mutiny (NBC), and produced Under Suspicion (Sony Pictures), co-founded and served as CEO of Electric Shadow Pictures, and executive produced the multiple Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated film, Fried Green Tomatoes.
Barbara Hall was the executive producer of Joan of Arcadia (CBS). Her producing credits include Judging Amy, Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, I’ll Fly Away, Moonlighting, and Anything But Love. She also developed three produced pilots, and worked as Story Editor on A Year in the Life and Newhart. She wrote the feature films Sylvie and Hearts, in addition to authoring seven published novels. Barbara has garnered a Humanitas Award, Viewers for Quality Television, NAACP Image Award, TV Critic’s Association Award, American Library Association Best Books & Notable Books, three Emmy nominations, as well as a nomination for both the Writer’s Guild Award and the Producer’s Guild Award.
Karen Hall is the Consulting Producer for the CBS series Judging Amy. She has been writing and producing episodic television since 1980 and has written for M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, and I’ll Fly Away. She has also written many television movies and mini-series, including
The Betty Ford Story and The Women of Brewster Place. She has received six Emmy nominations, six Writers Guild Award nominations, four Humanitas Prizes and has won the Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Drama Script for the “Grace Under Pressure” episode of Hill Street Blues. She has also won the Scott Newman Drug Prevention Award for the television movie Toughlove.