Richard Krevolin is an author, playwright, screenwriter, and professor. A graduate of Yale University, Richard went on to earn a masters degree in screenwriting at UCLA's School of Cinema-Television, and a master's degree in playwriting and fiction from USC. From 1990 - 2002, Richard taught both undergraduate and graduate screenwriting classes at USC Cinema/TV School as well as UCLA Film School, Ithaca and Pepperdine. Under his guidance, his students have sold film scripts and TV shows to Universal, Paramount, Dreamworks SKG and numerous other studios and production companies.

He is the author of the books, Screenwriting From The Soul (St. Martins Press), Pilot Your Life (Prentice-Hall), and How To Adapt Anything Into A Screenplay (Wiley & Sons). Richard has several screenplays under option and in development. Furthermore, his newest script, “How to Shag a Woman Properly” will be shot this year and will be released in 2006. He is also the author of four young adult novels that will be published in the next year.

He was one of the writers of the documentary, Fiddler on the Roof: 30 Years of Tradition. He was a finalist in the $500,000 Kingman Screenwriting Award, the Chesterfield Contest, the Klasky-Csupo Writing for Children Contest, the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Award, the USC One-Act Play Festival, the HBO New Writers Project, and the Eugene ONeill National Playwrights' Conference. His one-man show, Yahrzeit, was a huge hit at the Santa Monica Playhouse, running
for five sold-out months. Under a new name, Boychik, it opened Off-Broadway at Theater Four in New York City and is now touring the country. He received a Valley Theatre League nomination for best director and best play for his one-man musical RebbeSoul-O.

His play, King Levine opened at the Odyssey Theater under the direction of Joseph Bologna and after receiving rave reviews, transferred to The Tiffany. It was also nominated for an Ovation Award as Best
Adaptation. In the past few years, Richard had two one-person plays open in L.A., The Lemony Fresh Scent of Diva Monsoon Man (starring Ruth DeSosa) at the Rose Alley and Seltzer Man (starring David Proval of The
Sopranos) at the Tiffany. His newest one man play, LANSKY, has been translated into Hebrew and will be running in Tel Aviv at the Cameri Theater in 2005. His plays have been performed with Ed Asner, Allen Arbus, Jean Smart, Mackenzie Phillips and Richard Kline.

Krevolin has been a panelist and keynote speaker at a variety of popular writers conference, including the Maui Writers Conference, The Santa Fe Screenwriters Conference, the Hollywood Film Festival, The Surrey
Writer’s Conference, and The Learning Annex.