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David E. Tolchinsky

Brett Neveu

David E. Tolchinsky's work has been seen at such venues as Sundance, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Kennedy Center, and distributed in theatres, on DVD and on iTunes/Amazon Prime. His film credits include Creature Companion (producer, Special Mention, International Jury, Oberhausen); Cassandra (writer/director/composer/sound designer, currently streaming on Alter and available on Apple TV, 10 festivals awards including Best Short at Genreblast and Best Horror Film at Oxford International, and Best Thriller at Women in Horror Film Festival), Fast Talk (producer), The Coming of Age (producer/screenwriter, Winner, Silver Medal, LA Film Review), Girl (associate producer/screenwriter, from Sony, starring Selma Blair and Tara Reid), The Personal Life of Mr. Phelps (producer/writer/director/composer, premiered at Sundance), St. Catherine’s Wedding Ring (co-producer/co-director/composer, premiered at Sundance), Contaminated Memories (co-producer, NYTimes Op Docs), and most recently Night’s End (producer, streaming on Shudder/AMC). He has been included on New City’s Film 50: Chicago Screen Gems multiple times. He is the Founding Director of Northwestern’s MFA program in Writing for the Screen+stage, current Director of the Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts, and attended Yale (BA, musical composition/video) and USC (MFA, film production). More at davidetolchinsky.com. (Photo by Joe Mazza)

Along with multiple film projects currently in development, past film/TV productions include the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures and the feature The Earl with Intermission Productions. Recent theatre productions include Verböten (Joseph Jefferson Award Nominee, New Work & Best Musical) with House Theatre, Traitor with A Red Orchid Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Award, New Adaptation) and To Catch a Fish with Timeline Theatre. Past theatre work includes productions with 59e59 Theatre in New York; The Royal Court Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company in London; The Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Greenhouse Theatre, The Inconvenience, A Red Orchid Theatre and American Theatre Company in Chicago. A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is also a recipient of the Marquee Award from Chicago Dramatists, The Ofner Prize for New Work, the Emerging Artist Award from The League of Chicago Theatres, an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical (Old Town) and has developed plays with companies including The Atlantic Theatre Company and The New Group in New York and The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. He is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, a proud ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre, a founding member of the playwright collective MC-10, an alumni member of TimeLine Theatre Company’s Writers Collective and Center Theatre Group’s Playwrights’ Workshop in Los Angeles. Brett has been commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, A Red Orchid Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, House Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, Northlight Theatre and has several of his plays published through Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing and Nick Hern Publishing. Brett has taught writing at DePaul University, Second City Training Center and currently teaches writing for the screen and stage at Northwestern University.