Council Biography

Pamela Gray, recently named one of "Ten Screenwriters to Watch" by Variety, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her first feature film, A Walk on the Moon (AKA The Blouse Man), produced by Dustin Hoffman, premiered to a standing ovation at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, received a special mention by the National Review Board, and appeared on several criticsÕ "top ten" lists for 1999. Pamela received a Golden Satellite nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and Diane Lane was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress.

Pamela's second feature, Music of the Heart, was an official entry at the 1999 Venice, Toronto, and American Film Institute film festivals. Meryl Streep received Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actress for Heart, and Angela Bassett won an NAACP Image Award for her supporting role.

Pamela is currently writing two features, The Seamstress, a woman's Holocaust project, with Agnieszka Holland directing, and Still Life, starring Michael Douglas and Meryl Streep, with Mimi Leder directing.

Pamela has written two episodes of the TV series Once and Again, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and two Hallmark Hall of Fame movies, Calm at Sunset and The Love Letter. Her play, Supernormal Clutches, received the Critic's Choice award from the Los Angeles Times and a Drama-Logue award for playwriting.

Pamela has an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA, where she received the First Place Samuel Goldwyn Award for The Blouse Man, as well as the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Prize, the Marty Klein Comedy Writing Award, and the TV Academy's Scriptwriting Internship. Pamela is also a published poet with an M.A. in poetry writing from Boston University.

In addition to writing, Pamela's passion is tiger conservation. She is a volunteer zookeeper at the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in Rosamond, California.