Valerie Peterson(III)

VALERIE PETERSON - WRITER + valeriepeterson.net Twitter: @petersonvalerie . Instagram: @valeriepeterson6 . Tumblr: valeriepeterson6

TV, FILM & VIDEO (scripts & pitch docs available upon request) ***Semi-finalist 2016/2017 WGAE Made in NY Writers Room Fellowship ***Finalist 2015 CBS TV Writers Mentoring Program

Peterson's Happy Hour: "The Brazilian" -Original series pilot, sitcom, workplace + dysfunctional family

Sketch packet -Social satire, pop culture

Reconciling Jimmy: Pilot "Cash Bar" - original series pilot, procedural + humor ***Quarterfinalist, Screencraft TV Drama Pilot Launch competition

Blue Bloods: "Talk to Me" - TV drama spec script - procedural

The Maid of Honor - writer / director - narrative comedic short ***Official Selection, Sedona International Film Festival

The Jane Austen Syndrome - feature screenplay ***Third Place, Big Apple Film Festival ***Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenwriters Festival Honorable Mention, Cinequest ***Honorable Mention, More Magazine Screenwriters Competition

It's a Party - lifestyle show proposal & episode treatments -Original lifestyle show, pitched by Picture This Television

Nutrition game show -Wrote questions for spec pitched by Picture This Television

+ PRODUCED / DIRECTED Narrative comedic short 100+ hours of corporate video (Doubleday, clients) Television & radio commercials (client side) Successful media / book property co-promotions with TV networks & studios Brand placement management / brand adherence for Frommers (Real World, Eurotrip)

BOOKS, ARTICLES, ESSAYS For publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, etc. Semi-finalist, 2015 Robert Benchley Humor Writing Competition

[Untitled] - novel in progress -Multi-layered mystery, suitable for adaptation to TV serialization and/or ongoing procedural ***Quarterfinalist, Chesterfield Film Company's Writer's Film Project (very early draft submitted)

Peterson's Holiday Helper - Clarkson Potter / Random House - humor + cocktails "Entertainingly irreverent." -Associated Press

Cookie Craft - Storey / Workman - baking / crafts "A must-have." -The Washington Post

Peterson's Happy Hour - Clarkson Potter / Random House - humor + cocktails "A must-read." -Brides Magazine

Cookie Craft Christmas - Storey / Workman - holiday baking / crafts " You can always eat the evidence." -New York Daily News

+ TRAINING / EDUCATION Second City - sketch, improv The PIT - improv WGAE / PGA classes Robert McKee's STORY TAI - coursework in audience connection NYU-SPS - Certificate in Film & TV Directing Fordham University - B.A. English

+ GUEST SPEAKER / INSTRUCTOR Creative Writers Studio, Billings MT Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Plum Creek Children's Literacy Festival, Seward, NE Baltimore Book Festival Berkshire Museum JASNA / NYPL Mediabistro.com Boston Travel Show Int'l Assoc of Culinary Professionals, Montreal

+ MEMBERSHIPS / VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE NYSCoop TV Writers NYWIFT Sundance Film Festival IFP Independent Film Week Author's Guild Mystery Writers of America Jane Austen Society of North America

+ RELEVANT SKILLS Extensive strategy & marketing experience Details available upon request