Marilyn Horowitz is an award-winning New York University professor, author, producer, and Manhattan-based writing coach who works with successful novelists, produced screenwriters, and award-winning filmmakers. She is also a judge for the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship Program for film and media students.

Professor Horowitz has a created a revolutionary system that yields a new, more effective way of writing, and is the author of six books using the method, including editions for college, high school, and middle school. The college version is a required text at New York University, and two of her books have been used in the Lights, Camera, Literacy! program taught to over 1,000 children in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools (recent recipient of the “Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award” for outstanding scholastic performance). Professor Horowitz has written articles for Movie Maker and Script magazines, and she pens a monthly column for www.MovieOutline.com, an online magazine with 30,000 subscribers. Professor Horowitz’ weekly newsletter reaches 18,000 readers, and her 5,000+ Facebook friends.

Professor Horowitz has taught more than 100 classes, seminars, and workshops across the country for groups including the Writers Guild of America East, Philadelphia Writer’s Conference, Script DC, and Screenwriters World East. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at the Great American PitchFest and the Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles.

In addition, Professor Horowitz has written several feature-length screenplays, one of which was optioned. Her production credits include the feature films And Then Came Love (2007), starring Vanessa Williams and distributed by Warner Bros.; Caleb’s Door (2009), distributed by Around the Scenes; Found in Time (2011); Nocturnal Agony (2011); and The One (2011).