Multiple honors, 11th Annual Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest

  • The Fall of the Roxy Usher, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
  • Someone Duplicated the Key to My Heart, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
  • Falling into the Sun; Music by Mark S. Meritt, Lyrics by Richard Hack and Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate.

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Winner, Annual Thesis Prize

The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase is awarded the first Annual Thesis Prize for best thesis by the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
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City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies

Screenwriter, Bait and Switch

  • A dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy.
  • Winner, Cornell Department of Theatre Arts Screenwriting Competition, June 1991.
  • Produced by the Film Program of the Department of Theatre Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, during a Summer 1991 course in video production.
  • 29 minutes, color, S-VHS.

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Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance

Cornell University

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • BA, Theatre Arts; minor in Communication; graduated with Distinction in All Subjects, May 24, 1992.
  • GPA 3.80.
  • College of Arts and Sciences, August 1990-May 1992.
  • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, August 1988-May 1990.

Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance
Department of Communication
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences