Bio
Lynn Grant Beck was born in Montclair, New Jersey. Her feature Dead Wrong was optioned by the director, John Rhodes. She was hired by Miracle Mile Entertainment to write the feature screenplay, Hollywood Hit. She was also hired to write an
original web series, The Annex. Her one
hour TV pilot, The House that Jackie Built, reached the second round of the Austin Film Festival and was optioned by the director Allen Martinez. Her sitcom pilot, Life in 2D, garnered her a fellowship at the Writers Boot Camp. She has also written a spec of the show Mad
Men, “Paper Dreams.”
Other feature scripts include a broad
comedy, James Borkowsky 000; three
romantic comedies, The Death of Art, Trophy Husband
and Trouble; a thrillersThe
Power Game; and a sci-fi adventure story, Jonny Was. Dead Wrong won an award in the WIF/MORE screenplay contest.
Lynn also works as a screenwriting teacher at Santa Monica City College. Before becoming a full
time screenwriter Lynn was a Creative Executive at Interscope Communications,
where she traveled to Australia to shoot the film Pitch Black with Vin Diesel. She was also an assistant producer in the MOW department of Kushner-Locke.
Before coming to Los Angeles, Lynn was a playwright in New
York City. She founded the independent theater company, The Chelsea Players,
and produced many successful Off-off Broadway plays, including Restaurant A,
Magic Soup, Platform 8, The Game and The
Case of the Stolen Identity. After graduating from the University of
Pennsylvania with an MA in Russian Studies she traveled to Russia where she
worked as an assistant director at the Nikitsky Vorot Theater. She spent six
months working in Moscow and five months traveling across the former Soviet
Union, including to closed cities. She also worked as an assistant producer at ABC News. She wrote a non-fiction account of that year
entitled Adventure in the Soviet Union.
Other works include an
anthology of poetry and numerous manuscripts for children’s books. Her love for writing and the arts in
general was first fostered at her time spent at Choate Rosemary Hall. She
currently lives in Malibu, California with her husband, children and Weimaraner,
Koda.
