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Who’s Taylor Van Arsdale?

Taylor Van Arsdale is screenwriter, producer and script consultant. She spent several years at HBO Pictures, where she developed such projects as Don King: Only in America, GIA, and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge before branching out as a writer/producer with her own company, Tailfish Productions.

Within six months of launching Tailfish Productions, she optioned action-adventure feature The Second Agenda to Davis Classics, and partnered with producer James Gibb (Circus, Darkness Falls) to develop true-life story The Boys Club for Showtime, with Ian Biederman (Crossing Jordan) set to write the script and Arvin Brown (Just Ask My Children) to direct. Their projects in development include: Bloodwork written by Emmy-nominated writer Scott Abbott (Dorothy Dandridge, Queen of the Damned) at USA Cable with Tim Matheson attached to direct.

Most recently, she joined forces with Ksana Golod (president of Intercom Entertainment) to develop and package properties. The slate includes Marla Young's Earthbound and Nick Souza's The Diamond Kings. As an industry veteran, she has assembled a broad list of contacts within the production communities, working with writers from Endeavor, CAA, and William Morris.

She teaches a "Feature Development Intensive" at Loyola Marymount University. Under her tutelage, writer Jeff Wilber sold a one-hour spec, The Strip to HBO Original Programming, and another student sold a treatment to Village Roadshow Pictures and Tom O'Connor won the 2004 Austin Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition. She has guest lectured at both UCLA and for the International MBA Program at LMU on "How to Market Your Film".

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In 2003, she conducted an eight-week screenwriting workshop sponsored by the Film Actors Boot Camp, the educational arm of the Laurelgrove Theatre Company (a nonprofit organization) where writers showcased their work for industry professionals.

She holds a B.A. in Screenwriting and Communication Arts from Loyola Marymount University, graduated magna cum laude, and was the recipient of the Screenwriting Award for the class of 2001.

Her original screenplay, Death of a Tennis Star, has garnered her several writing assignments including the rewrite of Heart Beats Left, a German action-adventure, which takes place during the fall of the Berlin Wall, and The Bachelor Portraits, a commissioned adaptation of the novel by James I. Kruger.

Tailfish Productions http://tailfish.net/

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