Awards
AWARDS AND HONORS:
o Humanitas Award, Nominee “Selma, Lord, Selma”
o Paul Selvin Award, Writers Guild of America. “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”
o Writers Guild Award, Nominee for “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”.
o Cable Ace Award Nominee, “Mark Twain and Me”
o Humanitas Award Nominee, “Mark Twain and Me”
o Silver Nymph Award, Monaco International Television Festival, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”
o Christopher Award, Catholic Church for “When You Remember Me”
o Emmy Award Nominee, “I Know My First Name Is Steven”
o WGA Award Nominee, “I Know My First Name Is Steven”
o Emmy Award Nominee, (L.A. Area) for “Look Away”
o Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee for “Jane Doe”
o Humanitas Award Nominee, “Leave ‘Em Laughing”
o Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award
o Graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA Film School
OTHER:
o President of Willamette Writers 1995-Present
o Teaching screenwriting UCLA Film School 1984-1991
o Teaching screenwriting, PSU (Through Willamette Writers) 1996- Present
o Screenwriting Column, Writers Digest Magazine, 1998-2001
o Monthly Column, Willamette Writers, 1995-Present
o Member, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
o Advisory Board Member, Literary Arts, Portland Oregon 2000-Present
o Board Member, Oregon Film & Video Office
Cynthia Whitcomb 