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Vanessa King
Vanessa King wrote the TV pilot Two Roads, produced by Sony Playstation Entertainment and a selection of the Sony Worldwide Entertainment’s Emerging Filmmakers Program. She is also the writer and producer of the web series The EXpert (Cart Before Horse Productions) and the short films Picture Perfect, and Only In New York. Her screenplay Once More Eden was a semi-finalist in the AMPAS/Oscar®’s Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. Her screenplays have been finalists in the Final Draft Big Break Contest, the Great American Screenplay Competition, and the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, among many others. She has also won the Young Playwright’s Distinction Award and the Off-Off Broadway Audience Favorite Award. She she is a four-time appointee to the "Diversity List” and a four-time appointee to Vanity Fair's “Downtown 100” list recognizing top networkers in the entertainment industry. She has taught at Staffordshire University and the New York City Screenwriters’ Co-op. She holds a B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University.
