Name: John Strickland
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: TV Track
Contact Email: jstrickbruin70@ucla.edu

Short Bio: Before transferring to UCLA to begin his graduate education in 2018, John Strickland worked as a real estate agent in Los Angeles selling single family homes and multi-unit apartment buildings. Accepted to the prestigious UCLA graduate film school, John is a second year Graduate MFA screenwriter at UCLA, and has recently finished a portfolio of one hour dramas, thirty minute comedies and full length features. After living a full life prior to returning to school twenty five years later, John’s scripts are informed by his vast life experience as a husband of twenty five years and father of four living in Los Angeles.
 
Through his work in the graduate program at UCLA, John found his passion as a TV writer, and has successfully completed a body of work that showcases his unique voice.  He has worked as a teacher's aid for UCLA’s undergraduate introduction to beginning screenwriting for Pat Verducci and Linda Vorhees while finishing his final quarter as a graduate student.

Logline #1: A ruthless and savvy mayor wishes to change his corrupt ways and leave the criminal world behind, but has difficulty juggling his two lives.

Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Snowfall, Power, and Dallas

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