Ben Frahm

Ben is a graduate of Cornell University where he holds a Bachelor's of Science in Human Development, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting: Film & Television from UCLA.He's worked professionally as a screenwriter having sold a script "Dr. Sensitive" to Universal Studios (with director Tom Shadyac attached), and served as a Story Consultant on the critically acclaimed film "How to Train Your Dragon" for Dreamworks Animation, for which he was given a studio credit. Ben has worked as a Story Editor and Director of Development for Blake Snyder Productions (author of the successful Save The Cat! books on writing), and is the sole founder and director of Save The Cat! writing workshops in New York City. He also contributes often to the online publication of the same name, writing instructional blogs and beat sheets, and consults professionally on scripts and various film projects.Currently, Ben is helping to adapt the book "The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection" for Warner Bros. International which will be theatrically released in 500 + theaters across Brazil. He also writes for the television show "DesEncontros" for Sony Entertainment.He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East, and is presently an Assistant Teaching Professor of screenwriting at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications. Ben lives in Ithaca, New York with his wife and two sons.::Anonymous