Max D. Adams

Max D. Adams, born in Los Angeles California, is an American screenwriter.

Max Adams is an award winning screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked with Columbia Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Tri-Star Pictures. Organizations she has lectured and/or taught at include University of Southern California, Austin Film Festival, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Film Arts Foundation, New York Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. She is a former Writers Guild of America, West online mentor, is the founder of two international online screenwriting workshops, The Left Door and 5150, is a judge/reader for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, and is the author of "The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide: Or, Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War.” Recipient of numerous awards including, most recently, a University of Utah 2010 College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award, Max is a former New York Film Academy faculty member and a current Gotham Writer’s Workshop and University of Utah faculty member as well as the dean and founder of the online writing program Academy of Film Writing. Her produced feature films include Excess Baggage [credited] and The Ladykillers [uncredited

Max's play Exorcising the Dog won Salt Lake City's Utah Shorts Theatre competition and was produced by Theatre Works West and her play "The Lonely Play" was published by Collages & Bricolages. She is the recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her script My Back Yard and the recipient of the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Award for Excess Baggage, a script produced by Columbia Pictures. She is also the winner of an America's Best award, a Forum Screenwriting Award, and the 2010 recipient of the University of Utah College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award in Film.

Max's book The Screenwriter's Survival Guide; Or Guerilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War was published by Warner Books in 2001 and a new edition, "Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War," is scheduled for publication 2011.

Max is represented by Harley Copen, ICM.

Max's former students and workshoppers include 3 Nicholl Fellowship winners, Disney and Warner Brothers winners, and numerous working screenwriters. She credits her success to her first instructor, Frank McAdams, her former mentor and teacher David Trottier, her University of Utah instructors Kevin Hanson and Paul Larson, and her Nicholl Fellowship mentors Greg Beal, Eva Marie Saint, and Gale Anne Hurd.

Trivia

Max was nicknamed Red Hot Adams by Daily Variety.

External links

• Academy of Film Writing
• See Max Run
• Celluloid Blonde blog
• Wordplay article
• IMDb profile
• Interview on screenplayers.net

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