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Nancy Dodd is a writer and editor with many voices.
“Disposable,” her one-act play, was performed on stage as a finalist in the USC
2002 Jerome Lawrence Play Competition. “The Award,” a short play, received
semi-finalist in the 2006 Malibu International Play Festival. Other plays include
“Guit” about the father of an autistic child he keeps in a cage; “Pitter-Patter,”
a contemporary fairytale about art and crime and revenge and friendship; and the
“Elephant in the Room” which is a politically incorrect satire on all that we hold dear.
Her screenplay Seventy Times Seven has
received numerous awards, including Semi-Finalist in the 2006 Kairos Prizes $50,000
screenwriting competition and the 2000 Chesterfield Film Project, she received the
2000 USC Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Award for student recognition, and 2nd Place in
the 1999 California Writers’ Club Screenwriting Competition and placed in the top 10
percent of the Nicholl’s Fellowship in two different years. Her work "The Hero" was
produced as a 37-minute film shown at the 2003 New Orleans Film Festival and the 2003
California Independent Film Festival, and ranked in the TOP 20 “Most Viewed Short Films”
on ifilm.com rising to #12 during December 2003 and has remained in the top 10 in the war/combat category.
Dodd has also had short stories published and
aired on public radio and published poetry. She is completing the final novel-length
manuscripts of The President’s Trigger, an action-adventure novel; Jump! Before You Hit
and He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, two romance novels; and Wake-Up Henny! a coming-of-age novel.
She studied writing with a number of award-winning
and successful writers: Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Paul Zindel; playwright Velina
Hasu-Houston; international poet and screenwriter James Ragan; screen and television writer
Sy Gomberg; playwright Lee Wochner, playwright Oliver Mayer, and writer/playwright/screenwriter
David Milton.
Dodd currently teaches screenwriting at Pepperdine
University and has taught several writing workshops, as well as working with private clients.
Through her writing handbook "Following Through" along with tools she has crafted to teach a
comprehensive system of thought-provoking questions and charting, she leads the writer through
seven drafts to final project.
Currently on faculty at Pepperdine University, Dodd serves
as editor of the Graziadio Business Report, an online business practitioner’s journal, at the Graziadio
School of Business and Management. Dodd’s journalistic career includes publishing more than 125 articles
in local and national publications including interviews with celebrities and business leaders. She also
served as editor of Marshall, a USC academic/alumni magazine, and started the Marshall Review, an online
academic and business practitioner journal for the Marshall School of Business at USC. She began her career
as managing editor of Elan magazine, a lifestyle and arts magazine. Dodd has also coached and served as
consultant to other non-fiction writers and to start-up magazines.
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