BIOGRAPHY Larry Weiner's writing experience has spanned a quarter century and has included work in the worlds of film, television, corporate video, audio drama, advertising, and public relations. After college, Weiner began working as a story developer for Westfall Productions, an independent film production company in New York. He was on the story development team that created: Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas (a Jim Henson project), Death Be Not Proud (an ABC movie of the week), The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (a theatrical release with Ingrid Bergman), the Last Giraffe (a CBS made-for-TV movie), as well as a trio of prime-time animated specials for NBC. From 1980 - 1989, Larry worked in the advertising and public relations business as a creative director and public relations account supervisor. In 1989, he went out on his own as a writer and director of corporate videos. Over the past eight years, Weiner has scripted nearly 100 corporate videos (a partial list follows). Aside from his video script work, Larry Weiner is also the Creative Director of the Radio Repertory Company. His original radio dramas have aired on National Public Radio stations around the world. Indeed, a number of his shows have been broadcast in countries as far away as Hong Kong and Japan. He has recently written for (and directed) Katey Sagal (Peg Bundy from Married With Children), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation), Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite from Xena/Hercules), and Claudia Christian and Patricia Tallman from Babylon 5 in his most recent audio dramas. The shows are for sale to the general public in leading bookstores around the country. They can be rented through the new audio chain store, Earful of Books. The Scifi Internet (www.scifi.com) site also broadcasting on of his radio shows. Larry has not left the film world entirely. One of his recent screenplays has been optioned a third time. The first option went to Gary Goldstein (producer of Pretty Woman and Under Siege). From 1989 through 1999, Weiner also taught communication courses at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.