Curriculum Vitae
VAL STULMAN
10929 Morrison St. #5, NoHo Arts District, CA 91601
Vstulman@gmail.com, 818.399.0571 - cell
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Creative Writing/Writing for the Performing Arts (Playwriting/Screenwriting) : University of California, Riverside.
Secondary Teaching Credential, English: California State University, Northridge. Credential cleared.
Additional upper division English and Playwriting: California State University, Northridge.
B.A., Theatre: Loyola Marymount University.
Additional undergraduate work: UCLA.
EDUCATOR
2008-Present: Reference Section Writers’ Group
Co-founder, administrator, leader of professional writers group that includes three screenwriting professors,
one theatre professor.
2009 - 2017: Learn4Life High Schools
WRITER
STAGE PLAYS
Mercy Mission: full-length, drama.
Staged Reading upcoming with Enclave Theatre Company, The Victory Theatre.
Garry Marshall Theatre New Works: Semi-Finalist, 2018.
Humanitas New Voices: Finalist, 2017 Top 4% of submissions.
Multiple other Staged Readings: Blank Theatre, Road Theatre, Ruskin Group Theatre,.
Triggers: full-length, drama.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2018.
Third Place: The Ebell of Los Angeles Playwright Prize, 2015.
Semi Finalist: Humanitas Inaugural New Play Competition, 2015.
Multiple Staged Readings: Ruskin Group Theatre, Blank Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company.
Cafe Plays: Ruskin Group Theatre, 2016
Costo: 10 minute, historical.
Production: Grier Living Histories, Riverside, CA, 2008 (for Riverside City Anniversary.)
The Booth: one act, comedy.
Staged Reading: new play development, Theatre 150, Ojai, 2008.
Best of Festival Award/Meritorious Recognition: KC/ACTF (Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival
Region VIII, Utah, 2007.
TELEVISION
Agent – Preferred Artists Agency.
Mercy Mission: one hour drama pilot script - in development.
Non-Profit: half hour comedy pilot script, co-writer Rob Rinow – in development.
Regenesis: one hour drama pilot script, 2017 and 2019 – currently shopping.
Link to Script:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByBuIUxLC22KalBlZTVmT1ZrZkVuYnpHbUtBQlhyRzQ0OVB3
Sundance TV Episodic: Second Rounder, 2018.
Wise Words Writing Contest: Finalist, 2017. Top 3% of over 2000 submissions.
Mojave Sands: one hour drama pilot script, 2018.
Link to Script:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByBuIUxLC22Kd21GSkdzSy1EWDlGdjVDdlAyR1BYanNERk5r/view?usp=sharing
Withering Vines: half hour comedy (with co-writer Rob Rinow,) 2019.
Reboot : one hour drama pilot script, 2019.
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2016 as Boost.
Redemption: one hour drama pilot script, 2014.
Jeffrey Lampert, Producer option, 2015.
Finalist: Acclaim TV pilot competition, 2014.
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2014.
OriStory: half hour children’s pilot script, 2013.
Nocturnal: one hour drama pilot script, 2012.
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2014.
Walking Dead: spec script, 2011.
H
ouse M.D.: spec script, 2009.
Semi-Finalist: ABC/Disney Diversity program, 2009 or 2010.
SCREENPLAYS:
The Beth: Romantic comedy, 2017.
Quarter Finalist, Final Draft, Big Break Contest, 2018.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2018.
Family Place: Indie drama - 2001
Semi-Finalist: Chesterfield Competition, 2001.
Jeffrey Lampert, Producer, option, interest from Lifetime Network, 2001.
ARTICLES, MEMOIR, ESSAYS:
“FUBAR,” Memoir, hybrid essay. Queen Mob Teahouse Literary Journal, published April 2018. http://queenmobs.com/2018/04/misfit-doc-fubar/
“Femme/s, Film/s, Noir/e Revisions, 2010”: http://www.connotationpress.com/essays-on-art/468-val-stulman-
And many others… see my profile on LinkedIn.
DIGITAL STRATEGY, BRANDING, PRODUCING, SOCIAL MEDIA
Current: social media and digital marketing with Break the Glass LLC.
The Dinostorus
Website: Dinostorus.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dinostorus/
Instagram: @the_dinostorus
Monster Shrink – social media, writer, actor, producer. 2015-present.
Website: Monstershrink.weebly.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MonsterShrink/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/monstershrink
Instagram: @monstershrink
Twitter: @monstershrink
https://www.linkedin.com/in/val-stulman-8105857/ (non-fiction writing and teaching samples on LinkedIn.)
TV PRODUCTION (early career)
Audio Assistant & Recordist, Camera Utility: Metromedia TV, Teleprompter operator: Metromedia TV.
IMDB: see some credits.
ACTOR (early career)
IMDB: Acting resume posted on IMDBpro.
Credits include: stage plays, commercials, print, T.V. and Digital.
Training
Roy London: with teaching assistants Ivana Chubbuck and Ken Lerner, L.A.
Carolyne Barry: Commercials, L.A.
Austin Pendleton: HB Studios, New York.
Loyola Marymount University: acting program abroad – third year abroad studying with instructors and others
from RADA and LAMDA.
I performed in one play at LAMDA.
Program was discontinued in the late 1980s.
The Neighborhood Playhouse: Teen Program.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
Kevin Townsley, Script Anatomy, 2018:
TV writing. Outline through to Polish Draft and Bible through the TV Writers Fund for the Future.
Marla White, 2018: Developing, writing and presenting a pitch through the TV Writers Fund for the Future.
Ruskin Group Theatre Playlab, 2012-2016: Co-founding member.
Mark Taper Forum, educational program, 2016-17:
educational workshops supporting Zoot Suit and other plays to support high school drama students.
DTASC (Drama Teachers of Southern California,) 2000s-current: Adjudicator at various student competitions.
CETA (California Educational Theatre Conference,) 2017: attended multiple workshops.
Frank Chindamo, 2015: Web TV workshop through the TV Writers Fund For the Future.
Skylight Theatre Playlab, 2008-2010: co-founding member.
Thinking Gender Conference (U.C.L.A.,) 2007: presented paper, “Femme/s, Film/s, Noir/e: Revisions.”
Beverly Hills Playhouse writers’ lab.
Robert McKee, Story Structure.
10929 Morrison St. #5, NoHo Arts District, CA 91601
Vstulman@gmail.com, 818.399.0571 - cell
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Creative Writing/Writing for the Performing Arts (Playwriting/Screenwriting) : University of California, Riverside.
Secondary Teaching Credential, English: California State University, Northridge. Credential cleared.
Additional upper division English and Playwriting: California State University, Northridge.
B.A., Theatre: Loyola Marymount University.
Additional undergraduate work: UCLA.
EDUCATOR
2008-Present: Reference Section Writers’ Group
Co-founder, administrator, leader of professional writers group that includes three screenwriting professors,
one theatre professor.
2009 - 2017: Learn4Life High Schools
- Taught diverse (primarily Latinx) at-risk high school students 15-21 years old, English and life skills.
- Counseled & coached students to achieve what they thought they could not achieve, diplomas, jobs, sometimes college.
- Worked with CIS gang intervention counselors to facilitate students who wanted to change their lives and attend school.
- Developed nascent drama program. Wrote curriculum and taught Beginning Acting and Intro to Theatre, organized field trips to the revivals of Real Women Have Curves at the Pasadena Playhouse and Zoot Suit at The Mark Taper Forum.
- Wrote curriculum for additional classes.
- University of LaVerne: 2007-2008, Co-Taught with Dr. Gerard Lavatori, Honors Class, Scripted Lives, covering French history, film, feminist literary theory and academic writing (two semesters.)
- Mt. San Jacinto Community College, Menifee: 2006-2008 – taught Intro to Theatre (four semesters), Intro to Film (three semesters) Intro to Acting (summer session 2006,) Intro to Improv (substituted for regular instructor Fall 2006.)
- University of California, Riverside: 2007 - Teaching Assistant, Screenwriting (for Robin Russin, Spring 2007.)
- Gluck Fellowships: 2006-2007 – Four teaching fellowships. Two were running summer improvisation and creative drama workshops for high school students, two were teaching playwriting to high school students.
WRITER
STAGE PLAYS
Mercy Mission: full-length, drama.
Staged Reading upcoming with Enclave Theatre Company, The Victory Theatre.
Garry Marshall Theatre New Works: Semi-Finalist, 2018.
Humanitas New Voices: Finalist, 2017 Top 4% of submissions.
Multiple other Staged Readings: Blank Theatre, Road Theatre, Ruskin Group Theatre,.
Triggers: full-length, drama.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2018.
Third Place: The Ebell of Los Angeles Playwright Prize, 2015.
Semi Finalist: Humanitas Inaugural New Play Competition, 2015.
Multiple Staged Readings: Ruskin Group Theatre, Blank Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company.
Cafe Plays: Ruskin Group Theatre, 2016
Costo: 10 minute, historical.
Production: Grier Living Histories, Riverside, CA, 2008 (for Riverside City Anniversary.)
The Booth: one act, comedy.
Staged Reading: new play development, Theatre 150, Ojai, 2008.
Best of Festival Award/Meritorious Recognition: KC/ACTF (Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival
Region VIII, Utah, 2007.
TELEVISION
Agent – Preferred Artists Agency.
Mercy Mission: one hour drama pilot script - in development.
Non-Profit: half hour comedy pilot script, co-writer Rob Rinow – in development.
Regenesis: one hour drama pilot script, 2017 and 2019 – currently shopping.
Link to Script:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByBuIUxLC22KalBlZTVmT1ZrZkVuYnpHbUtBQlhyRzQ0OVB3
Sundance TV Episodic: Second Rounder, 2018.
Wise Words Writing Contest: Finalist, 2017. Top 3% of over 2000 submissions.
Mojave Sands: one hour drama pilot script, 2018.
Link to Script:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByBuIUxLC22Kd21GSkdzSy1EWDlGdjVDdlAyR1BYanNERk5r/view?usp=sharing
Withering Vines: half hour comedy (with co-writer Rob Rinow,) 2019.
Reboot : one hour drama pilot script, 2019.
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2016 as Boost.
Redemption: one hour drama pilot script, 2014.
Jeffrey Lampert, Producer option, 2015.
Finalist: Acclaim TV pilot competition, 2014.
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2014.
OriStory: half hour children’s pilot script, 2013.
Nocturnal: one hour drama pilot script, 2012.
Semi-Finalist: Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition, 2014.
Walking Dead: spec script, 2011.
H
ouse M.D.: spec script, 2009.
Semi-Finalist: ABC/Disney Diversity program, 2009 or 2010.
SCREENPLAYS:
The Beth: Romantic comedy, 2017.
Quarter Finalist, Final Draft, Big Break Contest, 2018.
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2018.
Family Place: Indie drama - 2001
Semi-Finalist: Chesterfield Competition, 2001.
Jeffrey Lampert, Producer, option, interest from Lifetime Network, 2001.
ARTICLES, MEMOIR, ESSAYS:
“FUBAR,” Memoir, hybrid essay. Queen Mob Teahouse Literary Journal, published April 2018. http://queenmobs.com/2018/04/misfit-doc-fubar/
“Femme/s, Film/s, Noir/e Revisions, 2010”: http://www.connotationpress.com/essays-on-art/468-val-stulman-
And many others… see my profile on LinkedIn.
DIGITAL STRATEGY, BRANDING, PRODUCING, SOCIAL MEDIA
Current: social media and digital marketing with Break the Glass LLC.
The Dinostorus
Website: Dinostorus.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dinostorus/
Instagram: @the_dinostorus
Monster Shrink – social media, writer, actor, producer. 2015-present.
Website: Monstershrink.weebly.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MonsterShrink/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/monstershrink
Instagram: @monstershrink
Twitter: @monstershrink
https://www.linkedin.com/in/val-stulman-8105857/ (non-fiction writing and teaching samples on LinkedIn.)
TV PRODUCTION (early career)
Audio Assistant & Recordist, Camera Utility: Metromedia TV, Teleprompter operator: Metromedia TV.
IMDB: see some credits.
ACTOR (early career)
IMDB: Acting resume posted on IMDBpro.
Credits include: stage plays, commercials, print, T.V. and Digital.
Training
Roy London: with teaching assistants Ivana Chubbuck and Ken Lerner, L.A.
Carolyne Barry: Commercials, L.A.
Austin Pendleton: HB Studios, New York.
Loyola Marymount University: acting program abroad – third year abroad studying with instructors and others
from RADA and LAMDA.
I performed in one play at LAMDA.
Program was discontinued in the late 1980s.
The Neighborhood Playhouse: Teen Program.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
Kevin Townsley, Script Anatomy, 2018:
TV writing. Outline through to Polish Draft and Bible through the TV Writers Fund for the Future.
Marla White, 2018: Developing, writing and presenting a pitch through the TV Writers Fund for the Future.
Ruskin Group Theatre Playlab, 2012-2016: Co-founding member.
Mark Taper Forum, educational program, 2016-17:
educational workshops supporting Zoot Suit and other plays to support high school drama students.
DTASC (Drama Teachers of Southern California,) 2000s-current: Adjudicator at various student competitions.
CETA (California Educational Theatre Conference,) 2017: attended multiple workshops.
Frank Chindamo, 2015: Web TV workshop through the TV Writers Fund For the Future.
Skylight Theatre Playlab, 2008-2010: co-founding member.
Thinking Gender Conference (U.C.L.A.,) 2007: presented paper, “Femme/s, Film/s, Noir/e: Revisions.”
Beverly Hills Playhouse writers’ lab.
Robert McKee, Story Structure.
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