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John Truby is a screenwriter, director and screenwriting teacher. His first feature film as writer/director was All-American Boy. He has served as a consultant on over 1,000 film scripts over the past three decades, and is also known for the screenwriting software program Blockbuster (originally "Storyline Pro").

Truby argues that most teachers of screenwriting emphasize inner transformation of the characters but not the moral effect their actions have on others. He is critical of Syd Field's three-act “Paradigm” and has instead crafted his own 22-step outline. Truby's first book The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller was published in October, 2007 by Faber and Faber.

John Truby is the co-writer and story consultant on the recent Disney/BBC film AFRICAN CATS.

Liz Tigelaar (born October 4, 1975)^{[citation needed]} is an American television writer, producer and author. She has worked on the series Brothers & Sisters, American Dreams, Once and Again, Once Upon a Time, and Revenge and is well known for creating and executive producing the The CW series Life Unexpected.

Tigelaar was born 4 October 1975^{[citation needed]} in U.S. She was adopted as a child, something that has influenced her work on Life Unexpected.

Tigelaar, in 2000, was an assistant on the series Dawson's Creek and co-wrote her first episode with Holly Henderson, the third season episode, "Show Me Love". Tigelaar also co-wrote with Holly Henderson two novels in the Dawson's Creek Suspense Trilogy, a series of novel based on the characters from the TV series.

From 2001-2002, Tigelaar was an assistant to executive producer on the series Once and Again. Tigelaar became a writer for the series, American Dreams in 2002 and wrote two books based on the series in 2004. Tigelaar also wrote three episodes of the animated television series Totally Spies! from 2001-2002.

Ross Brown (born 17 October 1981 in Bentley, Western Australia) is an Australian rower. He is now the High Perfmroance Development Officer with Rowing Australia.

He was educated at Aquinas College in Western Australia, before joining the Western Australian Institute of Sport. He won a bronze medal in the lightweight eight at the 2004 non-olympic world championships. In 2007, he won bronze in the lightweight coxless pair at the world rowing championships. After winning Silver at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in the mens lightweight eight, he became the High Perfmroance Development Officer with Rowing Australia.

Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic who writes for The New Yorker magazine.

Als is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.

His 1996 book The Women focuses on his mother, who raised him in Brooklyn, Dorothy Dean, and Owen Dodson, who was a mentor and lover of Als. In the book, Als explores his identification of the confluence of his ethnicity, gender and sexuality, moving from identifying as a "Negress" and then an "Auntie Man", a Barbadian term for homosexuals.

Als received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000 for creative writing and the 2002–03 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. In 2004 he won the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin which provided him half a year of free working and studying in Berlin. He has taught at Smith College, Wesleyan, and Yale university, and his work has also appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and the New York Review of Books.