mhalperin

Author, playwright, television writer (see IMDB.com)
Novel “Flagler’s Island” (Unbound) to be published in 2015.
Young adult novel “Black Wheels” placed by the National Education Assn. on 100 best books list, 2005 - 2014.
Co-wrote best-selling award-winning children’s novel “Jacob’s Rescue” (Random House), 1992.
Non-fiction: “Writing the Killer Treatment”, MWP, 2002.
“Writing the Second Act”, MWP, 2000.
“Writing Great Characters”, Lone Eagle, 1996.
One-act “Chestnut Trees”, TCT Playwright’s Festival Bronze Quill Award, 2014.
The Celebrity Staged Reading Series, Los Angeles, “Driving James Dean”, April 2011.
One-act plays “Freud at Sinai” and “Poor Timing” produced on both the east and west coasts most recently at OdysseyStage Theatre, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2010.
Celebrity Staged Reading Series, “Freedom, Texas”, 2009.
“The Spark of Reason” (semi-finalist Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition), staged readings, Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica, California, April and May 2008.
“Dancing with William Blake” (finalist Michigan Playwrights Program; Eileen Heckert Playwriting Competition), staged readings, Chapman Group Repertory Theatre, North Hollywood, California, 2007.
“All Steps Necessary”, commissioned and produced by Inkwell Theater, Los Angeles premiere April 2006.
One-character play “Mela”, command performance commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Jerusalem 2002
Created/Consultant original TV series "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe"
Developer/Consultant 2002 TV series "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe"
Story editor, Universal Television.
Executive Story Consultant, 20th Century-Fox Television.
Professor, School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, 1992-2012.
BA Degree, Communications, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California.
Ph.D., Film Studies.