Jule selbo biography examples

Jule Selbo, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Screenwriting area. She spent nearly two decades in the professional film industry: she is an award-winning screenwriter and producer with work in feature film, network and cable television, animated series and daytime dramas, working with filmmakers such as George Lucas, Roland Joffe, Lauren Shuler-Donner, Michael Newell, Aaron Spelling.  She continues to be active in the industry as a screenwriter and producer while working with CSUF’s student screenwriters.

Dr. Selbo has written two books on screenwriting structure as well as Film Genre for the Screenwriter (2014, Routledge)and her book Women Screenwriters International Guide (2015, co-authored/edited with Jill Nelmes, publisher Palgrave Macmillan). Her interests and research center on screenwriting history, theory and practice, film genre, national narrative structures in film, and Pre-Code American Cinema. She lectures internationally on story structure and film genre. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Screenwriting and is active in the International Screenwriters Research Network (SRN).

EDUCATION

B.F.A, Southern Methodist University

M.F.A, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ph.D., University of Exeter

PUBLICATIONS

FILM GENRE FOR SCREENWRITERS (2014) Routledge, UK/USA
WOMEN SCREENWRITERS: AN INTERNATIONAL GUIDE (with co-author and co-editor Jill Nelmes, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan UK, expected publishing date 2015; this book features contributing authors from across the globe)
SCREENPLAY: Scripting Through Character (expected 2015) Routledge UK/USA
THE REWRITE: First Draft to Marketplace (2008) Garth Gardner Publications. Publication 
SCREENPLAY: Idea to Successful Script (2007) Garth Gardner Publications
NOW WRITE! (2014) Chapter: Speculative Genres; Tarcher/Penguin Publishing
JOURNAL OF SCREENWRITING, Co- Editor, Intellect Press, Great Britain
Article: “Constructive Genre For Screenwriters; Mental Space”/ Issu

Jule Selbo is novelist, playwright, screenwriter and educator. Basically she loves stories and words and using words to tell stories. And she likes to cook and play pickleball. Her novels include Find Me in Florence (2019, Pandamoon Publishing, First Place Prize Chatelaine Women's Fiction/Romance), the historical fiction works Dreams of Discovery, Based on the Life of Explorer John Cabot (2018, Barbera Foundation), Breaking Barriers, Laura Bassi and the Enlightenment (2020, Barbera Foundation, nominated for Goeth Award) and Pilgrim Girl (a diary/cookbook of a girl who came over on the Mayflower, co-written with Laura Peters).

Her plays have been produced in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as in regional theaters across the country. Her play Isolate won the Los Angeles Women’s Playwrighting Prize, her play Boxes received multiple awards at the Los Angeles Independent Theater ceremonies in 2016. Boxes had its most recent production at Portland’s Good Theater in the Fall 2019. Her screenwriting credits include Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Lucasfilm), HBO’s Women Behind Bars – Prison Stories, Hard Promises (Columbia Pictures) Hunchback of Notre Dame II and Ariel (Disney), Melrose Place (Fox), Hercules (Universal) and more.

She earned her Ph.D. in Film Studies, is a professor in the Cinema and TV Arts Department of California State University, where she teaches film and screenwriting. She now adds Maine Media Workshop and South Portland's Acorn Theater to her teaching tasks. She lectures internationally and has written extensively on writing and film history. Her books Film Genre for the Screenwriter and Screenplay: Building Story Through Character are used in universities and seminars across the USA. Her book Women Screenwriters: An International Guide (2016, co-edited with Jill Nelmes) serves as a base for all research on female screenwriters 1890 to 2016). Jule served as co

Instructor Biography:

MFA, PhD, screenwriter; WGA member who has written films for the Jim Henson Company and Walt Disney Studios, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Part Deux and Cinderella II.  Dr. Selbo’s feature credits include Columbia Pictures’ Hard Promises, as well as screenplays for Paramount, Universal, and HBO. She teaches in the MFA in Screenwriting program at CSU Fullerton, and is the author of Film Genre for Screenwriters (Routledge) and co-editor of the ground-breaking Women Screenwriters International Guide (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).

Instructor Statement:

It all comes down to telling a story. A story that includes interesting characters, emotional truths, a solid point of view and plot points that keep an audience guessing, and a visual notion. No one says it's easy. But it can be done. The work is challenging, exciting and rewarding, and there is a method to the madness. There are tangible ways to approach concept, story breakdown, structure, story points, characters, dialogue, visual ideas, and themes. There are real issues to be taken into consideration: what's produceable, what's commercial, what's needed to catch the eye of studio executives or talent or a director. My class is run like a seminar, there's hands-on work on your concept and story work, there's immediate feedback and guidance. You work by yourself and with your classmates. You won't feel alone when facing that blank sheet of paper. Hard work is expected, but that's what it takes to create a solid, salable story.