 Diane Namm (far right) Writer/Director of THE SACRIFICE with Molly Quinn (center) and Debbie Vandermeulen (far left) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival aboard the M.Y. Octopus. (Photo courtesy of Paul Allen)  2007--On "The Sacrifice" location.
Top row (from left to right): Eric Mofford (producer),Diane Namm (writer/director); Ivy Isenberg (casting director); Jon Lindstrom (Walter).
Bottom row (from right to left): Chris Mulkey (Rev); Darby Stanchfield (Loretta); and Molly Quinn (Esmee).
Not pictured: Richard Riehle (Sheriff Avery)  Playwright/Director/Producer
2006  Diane directs "HUCK" (Austin Jay Chadwick as 'Huck Finn' and Chioma Nwosu as 'Widow Douglas')
2007  Diane signing books for RIFSoCal fundraiser
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 COMING FEBRUARY 5,6, 12, 13 2010 at the EDGEMAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS SANTA MONICA, CA  SEE the TELEMAFIA teaser on FACEBOOK a Diane Namm Film STARRING Ray Abruzzo Jeff Richards Written by Jan Militello and Diane Namm Produced by Eric Mofford Production Design by Tana Roller Director of Photography Thomas Morris Edited by Scott Meyer  The second production in West of Broadway's YOU THE JURY series. Playedin the fall of 2009 at Write Act Theater in Hollywood. THE SACRIFICE, a SHORT FILM Written and Directed by Diane Namm
Cast: Chris Mulkey, Darby Stanchfield, Jon Lindstrom, Richard Riehle and Molly Quinn Produced by Eric Mofford Casting Director: Ivy Isenberg Director of Photography: Terrence Hayes Production Designer: Katherine Bulovic Film Editor: Lindsay Mofford Music by Buddy Judge Photo credit Vic Olam "The Sacrifice" is a short drama about what happens on the day a polygamous cult leader comes to take a reluctant 13-year-old girl as his wife. HollyShorts Film Festival 2008 "Audience Choice" Award Winner www.hollyshorts.com Accolade Film Festival 2009 "Merit Award" SPECIAL JURY AWARD 2009 Lady Filmmakers Festival 2009 Angel Film Awards - Monaco BEST DIRECTOR FOR SHORT FILM — Diane Namm BEST ENSEMBLE CAST FOR SHORT FILM — Jon Lindstrom, Chris Mulkey, Darby Stanchfield, Molly Quinn, Richard Riehle BEST EMERGING ACTRESS FOR SHORT FILM — Molly Quinn BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FOR SHORT FILM — Darby Stanchfield BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FOR SHORT FILM — Chris Mulkey Official Selection of the Beverly Hills Shorts Film Festival 2009 Official Selection of MethodFest 2009 Official Selection of Newport Beach Film Festival 2009 Official Selection Malibu Film Festival 2009 Official Selection Dingle Film Festival 2009 Official Selection Temecula Valley Film Festival 2009  Peter's not a baby bunny anymore. He's a "Luke Skywalker" rabbit and he's ready to take back the cabbage patch and rescue his dad from Sgt. McGregor. Join Peter and his bunny army in this zany anti-war retelling of this best loved tale. Can you say food fight?  Adapted for the stage and Directed by
Diane Namm MONSTER is a world premier stage adaptation of the National Book Award finalist young adult novel by Walter Dean Myers. The story of 16-year-old African American Steven Harmon, on trial for murder, for allegedly being the lookout in a robbery gone bad. Designed for high school students, the "You, the Jury" tm series allows audiences to serve as the jury, and vote for the guilt or innocence of the defendant. THEATER
"You, the Jury"TM series at the Carrie Hamilton theater at the Pasadena Playhouse in January 2009 and in March 2009 to the Edgemar Center for the Arts. BUNNY TALES EPISODE IV: THE BUNNY WARS in April 2009, at the Edgemar Center for the Arts at 2437 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405. For showdates and tickets go to www.westofbroadway.org Diane Namm's LA STREET SCENES 3: Everyone Has a Story. (Produced by Create Now! and West of Broadway) Silent Auction and Gala Dinner. For tickets and information go to www.createnow.org. COMING THIS THANKSGIVING 2009! MRS. SCROOGE will be back! Namm's wacky tale inspired by Dickens's "Christmas Carol" is a zany holiday recipe for family fun: take a couple of mischievous angels, a grumpy Mrs. Scrooge, and sprinkle in an audience filled with snowball-throwing angels and a snowball fight and you've got the quintessential family tradition for Christmas entertainment. PAST SHOWS "HUCK" inspired by Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" takes audiences on a river ride in which Huck and Jim set off in search of treasure and adventure, only to discover there's no place like home. "Red Chief!" inspired by O.Henry's "Ransom of Red Chief" tells the tale of Red Chief, sugared up and ready to roll on Halloween night, who gives the adults in charge a run for their money along with a well-deserved fright. FILM SCRIPTS In pre-production: "Greed" a horror/thriller about a woman who discovers that her greed just might cost her her life. 2006 Austin Film Festival (Second Round Selection) 2007 Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards (Finalist); 2007 Filmmakers International Screenwriting Award (Platinum Prize); 13th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay & Fiction Contest (Quarter-finalist) "Pranksters" a family comedy about two thirteen-year-olds who wage a practical-joke war on their dating parents to prevent a family merger. 2007 California Independent Film Festival selection for "Best Screenplay" 2007 American Screenwriters Association Competition (Quarter-finalist) 2007 KidsFirst! selection. "Full Blue" is inspired by "Blue Blood," a Showtime documentary on teenage boxing at Oxford that premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival 15th Writemovies.com International Screenplay Contest (Finalist) 2007 American Screenwriters Association Competition (Semi-finalist) TELEVISION In post-production with Tater Films, LLC "In the Dog House with Clark Brown," a real-life dog rescue and rehab show featuring Animal Control Officer/Expert Animal Trainer CLARK BROWN. "Reality Strikes" a reality-show horror series. 2008 Scriptalooza Reality TV Competition (First Place) UPCOMING AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS Diane's adaptation of Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera," Margaret Sydney's "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew," and a medley of "Animal Stories" by Jack London, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others for the Classic Starts series, published by Sterling Books, a division of Barnes & Noble Publishing. Adaptations of Kipling's "Jungle Book" and Lofting's "Doctor Dolittle" for the Easy Reader Classics series, published by Sterling Books, a division of Barnes & Noble Publishing. Laugh-a-Long Readers: Funny Bunny Jokes; Jungle Jokes; Slithery, Squirmy Jokes; Silly Jokes. BACKGROUND Diane is the author of over 55 children's books, including the best-selling first edition (over six million copies sold) of "A Charlie Brown Christmas;" as well as original stories for Scholastic/Children's Press. She is an "official" author for Reading Is Fundamental. Diane has written a number of original stories published by Little Golden Books; original Disney stories published by Bantam; the young adult series, "Kisses" (First Kiss, Senior Kiss, Goodbye-Kiss) published by Troll and the novel "Never Tell Ben" published by Bantam. Formerly an Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster's Little Simon and NhiBooks, Diane is founder, playwright and artistic director of West of Broadway Theater Company, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. In addition she writes for film and books for children and teens. Diane's journey from NYC book editor to LA playwright, screenwriter and stage and film director is described in the "Live What You Love" series by Melinda and Bob Blanchard, the "Changing Course" volume. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS West of Broadway, a 501(c)(3)non-profit theater company/Artistic Director,President University of Michigan English Department, Advisory Board Edgemar Center for the Arts, Board of Directors Edgemar Center for the Arts, Theater Group Authors Guild Women in Film American Screenwriters Association AFI Alumni Association Create Now! (a writers' mentoring organization for high-risk teens) Reading Is Fundamental of Southern California AWARDS 1999 AFI Television Movie Award for "Warrior Queen," based on the life of Queen Boadicea of Iceni. 2007 KidsFirst! 'seal of approval' for "Pranksters" 2007 Top Ten of "Abbreviated Screenplay" Competition for "The Sacrifice" 2008 "Audience Choice Award" at Holly Shorts Film Festival for "The Sacrifice"  "Pranksters" is a 2007 Kids First! Selection  Directed by Diane Namm. Produced by Pasadena Playhouse and West of Broadway. Based on narratives written by Pasadena Unified teens in Diane's writer-in-residence workshop for the playhouse in May 2008.  The text you type here will appear directly below the image By Terry Miller Born out of a workshop that was an adjunct to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, - Big Dreams in Pasadena gave four young writers a chance to see their work performed on stage. Steinbeck’s story is about thwarted hopes and dreams and about friendships when those hopes are shattered. The four young writers in this workshop ( Deleah Davis, Kelsea Mayfield, Sharay Traylor and Morgan Tucker, used these ideas for their narratives. Instead of going for Steinbeck’s tragic ending, Big Dreams in Pasadena ends on a far more positive note. Directed by Diane Namm the play was presented in the intimate theatre upstairs from the Pasadena Playhouse, home to Furious Theatre Company. Big Dreams is a modern day filmmaking challenge the young people have taken on via You Tube. The idea is to create a film, edit and post on line in twenty-four hours. It has to be done on a Macintosh laptop (which the actors did on a Dell with a picture of apple hurriedly pasted on the front of the laptop for good measure) - This caused a good laugh when the audience realized the joke. They (the four teens) hope to come away from the experience with fame and fortune. Instead, the teens find something far more valuable. The play is about 50 minutes long and features professional actors Rafael Noble, Jessica Jones, Chioma Nwosu, Rick Vargas, Jaimyon Parker and Nichole Joubert. Two of the authors participated in the real Apple 24 hour film competition. Their three minute film can be seen at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WlmXRA_DYO The production is a joint effort of the Pasadena Playhouse and West of Broadway Theatre Company. |
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