Pamela Gray
Pamela Gray | |
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Born |
1956 (age 61–62) New York City, New York |
Nationality | United States |
Education | M.A. Boston University |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Pamela Gray (born 1956) is an American screenwriter.
Biography
Gray was raised in a Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of a salesman and a schoolteacher.[1] She earned an M.A. in poetry from Boston University after which she spent several years teaching.[2] While living in Oakland, she wrote a script for a play that had a successful run.[2] She then moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in UCLA's screenwriting program (where she studied under Lew Hunter) during which she interned with the producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation and successfully re-wrote an episode (Violations) which was used.[2] In 1992, she wrote The Blouse Man (retitled A Walk on the Moon) based on her experiences vacationing in the Catskills for which she won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award.[2] The script was not initially purchased until it was seen by actor Tony Goldwyn who was given the script by his agency, Creative Artists Agency.[1] They tried to recruit David Seltzer as director but failed and they then agreed to let Goldwyn direct.[1] She then signed with Miramax and wrote Music of the Heart, a fictional story about the life of violin teacher Roberta Guaspari directed by Wes Craven and starring Meryl Streep.[2] She went on to write Conviction (2010) and Megan Leavey (2017).[3]
References
- 1 2 3 The Catskills Institute: "Screening the Bungalows - An Interview with Pamela Gray, Screenwriter of "A Walk on the Moon" by Phil Brown from In the Mountains #8 October 1999
- 1 2 3 4 5 Variety Magazine: "Pamela Gray" By Saul Rubin September 15, 1999
- ↑ Deadline: "‘Megan Leavey’ Co-Writer Pamela Gray Signs With Gersh" by Anita Busch June 19, 2017