Mark Treitel's
TOP PICKS
1.
Richard Fein's
"THE REQUIRED ACCOMPANYING COVER LETTER"
Great. Very funny. Made me laugh and will stand out.
I also liked his "KIDNAPED CHILD"
- also good but may be provocative...
2.
"Soap"
by Jared Wahlgren
Great imagery
for a few words.
3.
Bruce Stirling (aka Gnomon)'s "HILLS
LIKE PINK ELEPHANTS"
Short terse sentences that move the story along and succinctly tell
the story.
Some surprises and realistic.
4.
Jenni Meredith's
"A Shadow Slides Over The Estuary,"
Interesting and juxtaposing imagery.
5.
Linda Schneider's "Tomato"
Liked
Her poems
had very similar themes, this was the best.
Liked how she broke down what flowers and sex are all about yet last
stanza made it more personal.
6.
Nikhil Parekh's
"Attaining
heaven from your corpse in hell…"
Maybe a little hitting over the head but interesting statements
7.
Isabelle Ghaneh's "Waking Up"
I liked the premise. Somewhat Kafkaesque. I did feel there could be more
done with it.
8.
Carole Hall's 'Portrait of a Young Woman'
Written well, but I think I saw the ending coming. Horror genre.
9. Gary
Beck's "Intrusion"
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Meet
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Who
is Mark Treitel?
Mark Treitel
as a writer had his original television pilot, “The
Sperm Donor”, was hand picked by NBC’s Network Entertainment
President to air on Bravo in 2005. The pilot starred Maggie Wheeler
(“Friends”, “Everybody Loves Raymond”) and
David DeLuise (“Third Rock From The Sun”, “Jesse”),
was directed by Amanda Bearse (“Married with Children”)
and co-written by Shoe Schuster.
In addition, Mark and Shoe were featured for eight episodes on the
behind-the-scenes making of a sitcom pilot, produced by Sean Hayes.
(“Will & Grace”) on Bravo’s “Situation:
Comedy.” Recently, Mike Epps (“The Honeymooners”, “All
About The Benjamins”) became attached to one of Mark’s
comedy scripts.
Mark has
been part of the Warner Bros. Comedy Writers Workshop, had an original
sitcom performed at the HBO Comedy Workspace,
his writing
group was featured in June 2005 issue of “Written By” and
has written with Jeff Marx, acclaimed co-creator of Broadway’s “Avenue
Q.” In his spare time, he is an attorney, in multi-billion dollar
litigation cases. He is also a member of the US Patent Bar. He is an
ardent supporter of the WGA writers strike.
Mark lives with his wife Mindy and his beautiful newborn daughter,
Dana Mollie, in Los Angeles, California.
Mark is proud of the fact that he has more google hits than Sean Hayes
-- over 350,000 as of now.
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Mark Treitel's script, Sperm Donor
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