Joan McCall
Web site: www.whenIknewal.com
Joan McCall, one of the most prolific writers in Hollywood, has written more than 50 screenplays on assignment including the recent sale of three spec scripts: Timelapse, Between Two Worlds and Respect.
Her screenplay Shirley, about the racecar driver Shirley Muldowney, was developed and produced as a successful motion picture titled Heart Like a Wheel.
Her feature film, Predator: The Concert, which she co-authored with David Sheldon, filmed in Europe starring George Clooney, Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, Deborah Raffin, Louise Fletcher and Deborah Foreman, is in post-production.
In addition to her screenplay writing, Joan has written more than 150 scripts for network television. She was a staff writer for the former NBC series Santa Barbara for New World Television, and has written many scripts and stories for Days of Our Lives, which airs on NBC.
As a contract writer for Another World on CBS, Ms. McCall wrote two scripts a week. She was a continuing writer for Capitol, and she wrote a bible, a six-month story projection, for Search For Tomorrow, also on CBS.
Joan McCall has also had a successful career as an actress. She has starred on Broadway in several hit plays by writers such as Neil Simon, Woody Allen and Evan Hunter, and in a number of national tours of Broadway shows, as well as in several Hollywood motion pictures.
A native of Kentucky, Joan graduated from Berea College with a Bachelor of Arts in art and theater. She trained for the theater in New York and studied with Lee Strasberg and Charles Conrad. A novelist as well as a screenwriter, she just completed two new books, Maggie and When I Knew Al, a biography of Al Pacino. Speaking fluent French, she is a member of the French Circle in Los Angeles and has served as president of the prestigious Salon Francaise.
Titles by Joan McCall
When I Knew Al: The Untold Story of Al Pacino
ISBN 1-891799-31-2
Softcover - $16.95
ISBN 1-891799-37-1
Hardcover - $24.95
Pages: 352, Size: 8.5 x 5.5