Exec J. Sikura of The Robert Evans Co. on Sunday Oct 22nd

Lots of news this week: The Robert Evans Company, Pitch Contest
winners and another chance to win, Halloween party, Find the
Funny, Anthony Ray Parker in 'The Marine', Comic Strip Network
premiere, Charity Dance for Parkinsons Disease Foundation,
Jackeline Olivier in 'Werewolf in a Women's Prison', Andrea
Shreeman teaching Mastery. See below...

Happening this Sunday...

Robert Evans was "the kid" in 'The Kid Stays in the Picture'. The
Robert Evans Company produced 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'.
Creative Executive J. Sikura will talk about the type of projects
that interest The Robert Evans Company and their four pictures in
development: 'How to Lose It All', 'Nice Girls Don't Get the
Corner Office', 'Triggerfish', and 'Wedding Season'. The Robert
Evans Company has a first-look deal with Paramount.

Sunday, Oct 22nd, 2006, 3pm to 6pm
Gates open at 2:30pm
ACMT Paul G. Gleason Theater
6520 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood (at Wilcox)
Parking on the street free or in lot for $6
Free to Industry and Guests with RSVP
RSVP online at www.ScreenplayLab.com now!

Writers/Actors Workshop Reading: TBA

2nd Annual Pitch Contest Winners...

Our winners Sunday were: Jeff Meyers, Brian Robinson, Jeremy
Kroot, and Steve Altman. We had four winners because our first
place was a team. I'll be giving more information about our
winners in an upcoming email and tracking what happens next for
them. Our 2006 winners plus our 2005 winner Dena Diamond will
each be invited to meet with an agent to discuss their careers.
Although all our prizes are cool, getting invited to meet with
an agent one-on-one is the prize that has everyone the most
excited. Are you jealous? Wish it was you? Well...

You Could Still Win...What? Is Robin Kidding?!!

The 2006 Pitch Contest is over...not! When I asked the
audience on Sunday, "Who here was meant to pitch today, but
didn't?", about twenty hands were raised. It may seem unlikely
after the last half hour of pitches was so underwhelming, but
what if we missed one? Here's another chance. The rules will
be posted next week, but basically you get to submit a 1-page
query that I will take to agents. They will rate your query
as Excellent, Blah, or Awful. At least one writer with an
Excellent query will get an invitation to meet with an agent
to discuss his or her career.

Please don't send me your agent query letters yet! I've got
to explain all the rules first. More next week.

ScreenplayLab Halloween Costume Party and Contest...

ScreenplayLab is having a party! On Saurday (not Sunday) Oct
28th from 3pm-6pm at the Write Act Theatre. $50 cash prize
for the best costume. Free.

Find the Funny's 3rd Annual Comedy Screenplay Contest...

ScreenplayLab friends Bill and Rosa Graham remind everyone that
the early deadline for Find the Funny screenplay submissions is
Nov. 15th. Cost $40.

http://findthefunny.com

Anthony Ray Parker Gets Raves for THE MARINE...

ScreenplayLab friend Anthony Ray Parker appearing in theaters
everywhere in THE MARINE is getting great reviews. Here's one
from TV Guide: "Particularly good is Anthony Ray Parker as a
temperamental psycho with an itchy trigger finger and an
understandable loathing of rock candy."

http://shorl.com/hyjumesestige

'The CSN Show' Premieres at Raleigh Studios Screening...

The Comic Strip Network screened 'The CSN Show' during seating
prior to the ScreenplayLab Pitch Contest. 'The CSN Show' is
music for the eyes, compelling but not intrusive, based on
funny comic strips rated to family newspaper standards with a
Martini Lounge soundtrack. Featured cartoons from 'Mostly
Heads', 'Girls & Sports', 'Dating Amy', 'MOD', 'Mr. Stick',
'Ipso Facto', 'Dot 'n Dash', 'Jac Strips', and 'Zenjeff'.
Soundtrack 'Partytime' by Shaun Oster of Doublehead Music.

http://comicstripnetwork.com/

Fundraiser Charity Dance for Parkinsons Disease Foundation...

ScreenplayLab friend Larry Strauss with the support of Albert
Torres, Let's Dance Studios, Clear Talent Agency, Debbie Farley,
Alicia and Raul Gomez and Laura Cannellias invite you to a
fundraiser charity dance. Oct 29th, Sunday, 5:30-9pm, Let's
Dance Studios 17, 1st Street Alhambra, 626-227-2572. The dance
music of 2's Company, D.J. Steve, Salsa, Swing and Ballroom
dancing, a show and prize drawing. $10 donation. Please say at
the door that you came to support the charity and 100% of your
tax deductible donation will go to the foundation. Halloween
costume (optional) to be eligible for a prize. Contact Larry
Strauss .

Jackeline Olivier Screening...

ScreenplayLab friend Jackeline Olivier is starring in
'Werewolf in a Women's Prison'. You survived 'Snakes on a
Plane', but now... Thurs, October 19th, at Studio-stage, 520
N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, www.studio-stage.com. Cocktail
reception 6pm. Screening 7pm. Limited seating. To RSVP call
Tai Chan Ngo at (818)795-1021. (I watch comedies, not horror.
Let me know what it was like if you see it. Robin)

Andrea Shreeman teaching acting Mastery class...

ScreenplayLab friend Daisy Lewis and I attended the open class 5
of Mastery last week. Andrea sends a big thank you to everyone
who turned out from ScreenplayLab to attend her class or to
boost the energy in the room for the performers. If you were
there you had a rare chance to see me as a performance artist.
There was also a creative writing exercise. I wrote two poems.

Mastery is an acting intensive exploring inner feelings and
translating those into organic stage performance as a group.
A good exercise to loosen up and to bond with actors. Six-week
course starts on Nov 1st at Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center in
North Hollywood. Cost $300.

http://shree.tv/mastery.html

About the ACMT Paul G. Gleason Theater...

http://acmt.org/

Special thanks to ACMT for providing hosting us! The American
Center for Music and Theater offers performances, production
space, training, mentorship, and career opportunities to
performers and production personnel. ACMT is looking for
teachers of the arts, performers, and producers to bring
their shows to Hollywood.

About ScreenplayLab...

http://ScreenplayLab.com

ScreenplayLab is 1,200 screenwriters, actors and filmmakers with
the mission of making the world a better place through comedy in
motion pictures and television. Our workshop readings present up
to thirty fresh pages from selected scripts that we cast with
working actors. More than two dozen actors and writers have
signed with an agent on referral from ScreenplayLab.

See you at ScreenplayLab!

Robin