Cynthia Whitcomb

Cynthia Whitcomb is an American television screenwriter and teacher. She has been nominated for numerous awards including the Emmy, the Edgar and the Humanitas Prize.{{cite web |url=http://www.screenplayers.net/cwhitcomb.html |title=An interview with Cynthia Whitcomb |first=Debra |last=Stone |work=The Screenplayers:Writing Tomorrow's Films |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425071948/http://www.screenplayers.net/cwhitcomb.html |archivedate=2012-04-25 |url-status=dead |accessdate=2011-10-16 |quote=She has sold more than 70 feature-length screenplays, 25 of which have been filmed. Her scripts have won and been nominated for many awards including the Emmy, Humanitas and Writers Guild of America Awards. }}

Background

In 1969, Whitcomb graduated from Pasadena High School in Pasadena, California where she studied drama under Abel Franco. While she was a freshman at UCLA, Franco gave her one of her first professional writing assignments. She received $25 in advance and $25 upon completion to write, "Here," a spoof of the musical, Hair. However, the play was never produced due to censorship.{{cite news |title='Franco's Kids' Pay Tribute |first=Beverly |last=Beyette |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-04-vw-22227-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |date=1988-01-04 |quote=After 26 years as drama teacher at Pasadena High, Franco was retiring to devote full time to acting and writing. For three months, his one-time pupils had planned this tribute, a party Saturday night at the Bel-Air home of scriptwriter Cynthia Whitcomb (class of '69). }}