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Seth Greenland is a Scriptwriter born on 22 july 1955
Seth Greenland is an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. He has two published novels, Shining City and The Bones as well as four plays. He released a third novel, The Angry Buddhist, (ISBN 978-1-60945-887-4) in 2012. Much of Greenland's work is set in Los Angeles, where he lives, penning characters dealing with or exposed to the dark underbelly of the city and treated in a tone of black humor.
His first play, Jungle Rot won both the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund For New American Plays Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Award. His work is also recognized in anthologies such as The Otis L. Guernsey Jr. Best Plays of 1994-95, The Devil's Punchbowl: A Cultural and Geographic Map of California Today, and Cape Cod Noir. Greenland's screen credits include writing for the HBO series Arli$ and Big Love. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and one of the site's original bloggers.
Outside of writing, Seth Greenland and his wife, Susan Kaiser Greenland, established InnerKids, the first elementary school curriculum incorporating wellness techniques from the emerging practice known as Mindful Awareness.
This would lead Greenland to Los Angeles, where he began a career in screenwriting. In 1993, Greenland collaborated with Doctor Dré and Ed Lover on the film Who's the Man?, a hip hop whodunnit starring the rap duo, directed by Ted Demme and written by Greenland. In 1995, Greenland's script My Teacher's Wife was made into a film starring Tia Carrere, Christopher McDonald and Jason London, and directed by Bruce Leddy. Greenland's latest novel, Shining City, was optioned by Warner Bros. and is currently in development.
In 2001, he returned to the television screen writing for the last season of Arli$$ and later, The Big Love."
Greenland lives in Los Angeles with his wife Susan Kaiser Greenland and their two children.
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Birth 22 july 1955 (69 years)
Seth Greenland is an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. He has two published novels, Shining City and The Bones as well as four plays. He released a third novel, The Angry Buddhist, (ISBN 978-1-60945-887-4) in 2012. Much of Greenland's work is set in Los Angeles, where he lives, penning characters dealing with or exposed to the dark underbelly of the city and treated in a tone of black humor.
His first play, Jungle Rot won both the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund For New American Plays Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Award. His work is also recognized in anthologies such as The Otis L. Guernsey Jr. Best Plays of 1994-95, The Devil's Punchbowl: A Cultural and Geographic Map of California Today, and Cape Cod Noir. Greenland's screen credits include writing for the HBO series Arli$ and Big Love. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and one of the site's original bloggers.
Outside of writing, Seth Greenland and his wife, Susan Kaiser Greenland, established InnerKids, the first elementary school curriculum incorporating wellness techniques from the emerging practice known as Mindful Awareness.
Biography
Greenland was born in New York City and received his BA at Connecticut College and later, completed an MFA in film at the New York University Tisch School for Arts. He began his career as a journalist for an alternative newspaper called The SoHo Weekly News and writing spec scripts for television. One of his spec scripts caught the attention of T.V. Producer Norman Lear who eventually gave Greenland his first break writing for a television sitcom called "a.k.a. Pablo."This would lead Greenland to Los Angeles, where he began a career in screenwriting. In 1993, Greenland collaborated with Doctor Dré and Ed Lover on the film Who's the Man?, a hip hop whodunnit starring the rap duo, directed by Ted Demme and written by Greenland. In 1995, Greenland's script My Teacher's Wife was made into a film starring Tia Carrere, Christopher McDonald and Jason London, and directed by Bruce Leddy. Greenland's latest novel, Shining City, was optioned by Warner Bros. and is currently in development.
In 2001, he returned to the television screen writing for the last season of Arli$$ and later, The Big Love."
Greenland lives in Los Angeles with his wife Susan Kaiser Greenland and their two children.
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My Teacher's Wife (1999)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Jason London, Tia Carrere, Christopher McDonald, Alexondra Lee, Zak Orth, Jeffrey Tambor
Rating55%
Todd Boomer, jeune étudiant, doit gagner son ticket d'entrée à Harvard. Mais M. Muller, son prof de math, fait tout pour "lui mettre des bâtons dans les roues". Seul un miracle lui permettra d'accéder à cette grande faculté... Todd se met en contact avec la belle et sensuelle Vicky pour suivre des cours particuliers. Leur relation passe très vite de l'élève/prof à ami/amie puis amant/maîtresse... Et tout va bien pour Todd Boomer... jusqu'au jour où il apprend que Vicky est la femme de M. Muller
Who's the Man? (1993)
, 1h25Directed by Ted Demme, Suzanne de Passe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Badja Djola, Richard Bright, Colin Quinn, Denis Leary, Bernie Mac, Richard Gant
Roles Author
Rating53%
Doctor Dré and Ed Lover are two bumbling barbers at a Harlem barbershop. Knowing full well that cutting hair is not their calling, their boss, friend, and mentor Nick (Jim Moody) tells the two maybe they should try out for the police academy. Crazily enough, it works out for the two, and they are accepted on the New York City police force. Things seem to be going well for them, when tragedy suddenly strikes, and they lose Nick. Now enforcers of the law, the tag team decides to investigate the incident, which they believe to be a murder.