Dr. Bonnie Orr has written twenty-seven screenplays, two teleplays, and a TV pilot.  She completed the graduate level screenwriting program at UCLA in 1998.  Her agent, Mickey Freiberg, represents her on several projects and has optioned her script “Earth on Fire” to Lone Tree Productions in Malibu.
 
Her latest endeavor was producing “Poodle Dog Lounge” (her TV pilot) this past August.  “Poodle Dog Lounge” is in post production and will be shopped to HBO and other cable networks in January.
 
Bonnie has taught screenwriting classes at Austin Community College, GSD&M and at the Writers’ Academy. She is a senior staff writer for ScreenTalk magazine, and does script doctoring from her website www.bonnieorr.com. She has worked in development for several production companies in LA, such as Nine By Nine Productions and Tony Blain Productions.
 
Bonnie has received awards in five screenwriting contests such as Fade In and Script magazines’s contests.
 
Bonnie wrote a sequel for “Contact” for Michael Gordon (Narc, The Devil & Daniel Webster).
 
For the last three years, Bonnie has taught a seminar on “How to Pitch” at the Austin Film Festival.  She has taught various seminars for the film festival every year for the last five years.

Seminars and classes attended:
UCLA graduate program Screenwriting student (graduated in June, 1998)
Flash Forward Seminar 1996
Fade In Seminar 1998
Richard Walter's L. A. Seminar 1997
Michael Hauge's Seminar 1998
Richard Krevolin's Seminar 1998
Selling to Hollywood (Glendale) last 3 years
Sherwood College's Agents & Producers Seminars (Hollywood) 1998
Aubrey Horton 8 week class 1997
Writers Boot Camp 6 week class 1997
Austin Film Festival's Screenwriting Conference last 4 years
Flash Forward Intensive (January, 1999)


Contests:
Worldfest Charleston-Final Round
Worldfest Houston-Final Round
Writer's Network-Quarterfinalist
Best of the West-Honorable Mention
Fade In Magazine-Quarterfinalist


Film Festivals Attended:
AFM
AHFF
Cannes
SXSW


Other

• · Reader for the Austin Heart of Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition for three years. Second Round Reader for AHFF in 1999 & 2000. Reader for Nine by Nine Productions & Blain Entertainment 1998. Reader for Texas Film Development Corporation.
   
• · Panelist for Austin Heart of Film Festival for past three years. Panelist for Austin Writers League's screenwriting conference (2000).
   
• · November, 1996 screenplay School for Skinheads was selected by AHFF for a staged reading. Reviewed positively in the Village Voice.
   
• · October, 1997 signed option agreement with Visionairees for movie of the week treatment called, "The Suzanne Brown Story."
   
• · January, 1998 signed contract for writing assignment for script titled, Sarah and Sameer.
   
• · Hired by Reeltime Productions to write sequel to a science fiction script in 1998.
   
• · Currently in development with two different LA producers on Attack of the Killer Cupcake and Plays Well With Others.
   
• · Teaches screenwriting classes (see page on Classes)
   
• · Ph.D. in marketing and advertising. Master's in psychology and journalism. BA in government and English.