Mark Evan Schwartz, Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television in Los Angeles, is an award winning screenwriter with credits on over a dozen produced feature films, television shows, and TV movies. Starting out as a Production Assistant for Francis Coppola, he went on to become Story Analyst for the Geffen Company, Story Editor for Galactic Films MGM, and Head of Story and Development for Nelson Entertainment, international distributor of such blockbusters as When Harry Met Sally and Best Picture Oscar winner The Last Emperor. His screenwriting credits include Little Men (Warner Brothers Family Entertainment) and Star Quest (Concorde/New Horizons), produced by the legendary Roger Corman. He can be seen as a special feature talking head on the 15th Anniversary DVD of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogsand the Blu Ray DVD of Lerner and Lowe’s classic musicalCamelot. His critically acclaimed book How to Write: A Screenplay(Continuum Int’l, New York & London) is currently in its second edition. Mark will be presenting a limited registration workshop on screenwriting during Words & Music, 2013.