Writer, Professor, Script Consultant
Telling stories that engage, uplift and inspire.
Meet Lynn Grant Beck
Professional Writer
Why do I write? Because I’m obliged to observe human behavior and bear witness to our tumultuous times. I tap into the zeitgeist not only to illuminate what is here, but also to discover what is percolating and emerging. If I do my job correctly, I make people uncomfortable with the truth of the things. I shake them up, get them to see the world from a new perspective. Heaven and hell are right here on earth with real villains and true superheroes. Stories are imperative to make sense of our lives, to agitate, communicate, inspire and entertain. Screenwriters and playwrights remind audiences that we are all in this great ship of humanity together, and that if we row in sync, perhaps we just might steer this ship in a new direction.
My newest work is "Dink, Drive, Thrive, How Pickleball Transforms Lives," a non-fiction book on the exploding phenomena of pickleball.
Lynn's Resume
THEATER:
ALL AMERICAN: Two families live in the same house simultaneously in 1971 and 2021. The families must learn wisdom, compassion and empathy from each other in order to stop a school shooting and heal their family dysfunction. Nominated for Best Drama & winner of the Hollywood Producer Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022.
PRODUCED SCREENPLAYS / WRITER FOR HIRE:
DESTINED TO REMEMBER YOU (Short Vertical Drama Series): An embroidery artist, who falls in love with a famous painter, is shocked to discover that their love was unrequited in a past life. She must stand up to his domineering mother to prove herself and marry her one true love. Hired by EverBrite Studios in 2025.
CYHPER (TV Thriller): A cryptologist who is hired by the FBI to uncode a cypher with a list of names targeted for assassination, discovers that his name is next on the list. Wrote 2 episodes for Roku 2023.
HASHERS (TV Drama): An introverted college freshman gets a dream job as a sorority houseboy, but gets implicated in a deadly mystery he must solve in order to prove his innocence and save the sorority. Google VP Jim Kolotouros.
MY MOM ROBS BANKS (MOW Thriller): A teenage daughter discovers that her mother is robbing banks to pay off her father'sgambling debt. Lifetime 2016.
12 GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS (MOW Rom-Com): A harried banker hires a personal shopper to help him with his Christmas shopping, but discovers that she’s the best present of all. Hallmark Channel 2015.
HOLLYWOOD HIT (Feature Comedy): Two struggling actors are mistaken for mob hitmen and sent to Hollywood to convince a producer not to make a movie about the life of a Godfather. But the producer mistakes the "hitmen" as actors and casts them as leads in the film. Miracle Mile Ent.
TRAPPED (MOW Thriller): An unwitting teenage girl gets seduced by a charming psychopath into his dangerous cult. She must escape and destroy the cult in order to save her life and the lives of the other innocent girls. Tim Johnson Productions.
CULT OF LIES (MOW Thriller): An unsuspecting teenage girl must destroy the female leader of a Goddess worshipping cult, who uses young women to punish the men who've wronged her. Tim Johnson Productions.
AVAILABLE FEATURE SCRIPTS:
BLACKOUT (Action/Disaster): When an EMP attack plunges NYC into total darkness in the dead of winter, an EMT and her fireman brother must lead their blended family through the gates of hell to reach their sanctuary in New Jersey.
JAMES BORKOWSKY 000 (Action Comedy): A septic tank salesman from Dubuque is mistaken for his doppelganger, who's a suave French spy. The salesman is swept up in a secret spy mission to save the country and must win back his fiancé from the real spy.
TROPHY HUSBAND (Comedy): A down and out, young stable boy is inspired by his trophy wife friends to find and marry a rich, older woman. He and his best buddy work the older babe market and find a suitable catch, but the stable boy learns the hard way that when you marry for money you must work for every penny.
THE DEATH OF ART (Romantic Comedy): A struggling artist fakes his death to increase the price of his paintings, but finds it difficult to keep his secret when he falls in love with his best customer.
THE SIGN PAINTER (Thriller/ Black Comedy): Desperate to raise his young daughter, an out-of-work sign painter agrees to kill a cheating wife; but he kidnaps the wrong woman pitting the husband, his wife and her lover against each other to come out on top. Garnered an honorable mention in the semi-finals of the MORE/WIF Screenplay Contest.
THE TREASURED CAT: (Animated): Desperate to find a family, a scrappy orphaned kitten is adopted by a band of ragtag pirate dogs. She must unite warring cats and dogs to defeat a common enemy and bring true treasure to all animals.
SANDRA CLAUS: (Animated): Santa Claus’ daughter must prove to her family and the world that she has what it takes to be the next Santa Claus.
QUIET NIGHT (MOW Thriller): A female night watchman at a storage facility discovers that the owners are involved in a human trafficking ring. She must infiltrate the ring to defeat the perpetrators and bring them to justice without being trafficked herself.
SPRING BREAK NIGHTMARE (MOW Thriller): When a 19 year-old college student gets kidnapped by drug dealers on a spring break trip to Jamaica, her ex-military mother will stop at nothing to get her back and bring the kidnappers to justice.
AVAILABLE TV SCRIPTS:
FRENCH VANILLA & FELONIES (Half Hour Dramedy): A millennial apartment manager must solve a murder while wrangling quirky tenants and navigating a love triangle in order to keep her job and provide a home for her daughter. Based on the award winning book series "The Cambria Clyne Mystery Series."
THE HOUSE THAT JACKIE BUILT (One Hour Dramedy): A Latina socialite's husband commits suicide leaving her broke. In danger of losing the house she built, she and her friends operate a male escort business under the guise of a book club and hunt down the stolen money from the Russian Mafia.
FUZION (One Hour Sci-Fi): An injured single mother is enhanced with technology and artificial intelligence through a DARPA program to create a super soldier. She must work with an android created in the image of her dead husband to uncover an assassination plot to kill the President.
LIFE IN 2D (Half Hour Comedy): A forty year-old cartoonist has a mid-life crisis that manifests as one of his sexy, young comic book characters. She comes to life through an iPad app to teach him how to be a man, but complicates things with his wife. Awarded a fellowship with this script at the Writers Boot Camp.
TWINDROIDS (Half Hour Comedy): Two high school freshmen adopt sexy, identical androids, who turn the boys’ world upside down, but also help them learn what it means to be human.
EDUCATION:
University of California, Riverside - MFA in Screenwriting – Earned the Founders Award for most promising new student
University of Pennsylvania - B.A. in Russian Studies
Choate Rosemary Hall
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Professor of Screenwriting at Pepperdine University, LA, CA
Professor of Screenwriting at Santa Monica College, LA, CA
Professor of Screenwriting at ScreenwritersUniversity.com
VP of Production: Kopelson Entertainment, LA, CA
Creative Executive: Interscope Communications Inc. (Feature Dept.), LA, CA
Assistant to Producer: Kushner-Locke Co. (MOW Dept.), LA, CA
Writer/Producer/Owner: Chelsea Players Theater Company, New York, NY
Assistant Director: Nikitsky Vorot Theater, Moscow, Russia
Assistant Producer: ABC News, Moscow, Russia
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