Wednesday, September 30, 2009

could a ucsd playwright be the next coppola?

UCSD theatre grad student Jennifer Barclay has joined the ranks of Francis Ford Coppola and Eric Roth. Roth and Coppola have both won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards Competition and Barclay was recenlty named as one of the five finalists of the 2009 awards competition.

After receiving more than 150 submissions, the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation narrowed the field down to five feature-length screenplays from Barclay and four other students from UCLA.

As a finalists, Barclay will receive a cash prize. Winners will be selected by Hilary Swank, Colin Callender and Catherine Tarr, and awards will be presented Nov. 2at UCLA. To read the story in Variety.com click here.

To learn more about Jennifer click here.

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