Jeffrey Hirschberg

Jeffrey Hirschberg – author of Reflections of the Shadow: Creating Memorable Heroes and Villains for Film and TV – has been a professional screenwriter for eighteen years and has written sixteen feature length screenplays and numerous television scripts.

His screenplay – Why Can't They All Be Like Johnny Depp? – was a 2010 Winner of the Writer's Guild of America's Screenplay Reading Series and he is currently slated to direct an independent feature film from his original screenplay, Maxed Out.

A member of the Writers Guild of America and judge for the WGA Awards, Jeffrey has had screenplays optioned by Hollywood production companies and has written and/or created shows for Showtime Networks, Lifetime Television, and ABC.  He has worked at NBC, Warner Bros., and Viacom and has taught at Cornell University, Syracuse University's Newhouse School, and R.I.T.'s School of Film and Animation.

Jeffrey holds a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a Master's degree from Syracuse University's Newhouse School.  He lives with his wife, three sons, and Dog, Al (named after Alfred Hitchcock), in Upstate New York.