About Ed Valentine

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Greetings! I write  for stage, screen, & TV.  Welcome to my world! 

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4-time Daytime Emmy winner, Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series for Sesame Street (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017); also nominated for Outstanding Writing in Animation for The Fairly OddParents (2009)

Writer for (among other shows): Sesame Street, Sharkdog (Head Writer), Superbuns, Doc McStuffins, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Fairly OddParents,  Bubble Guppies, Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, and Transformers: RescueBots

* I taught a TV Animation Writing Masterclass at NYU’s Tisch Dept. of Dramatic Writing, 2013 and 2018, and Screenwriting in 2022. I was a Thesis Professor in the Visual Narrative MFA Program at the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2014 – 2018 / Co-teacher with Jonathon Rosen);

I run classes and workshops on writing & creativity, and offer 1-on-1 coaching, support and script consultations. Please email me for info.

* My plays have been performed in NYC and across the U.S.  I was named one of “50 Playwrights to Watch” in The Dramatist magazine

Fellowships: Nickelodeon Writing FellowshipDramatists Guild Fellowship

* Two-time recipient of the “Best Full-Length Play in the Northeast” award from the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival; three-time winner of Hunter College’s Irv Zarkower Award for Promising Plays

* BA from Boston College; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

* Founding member of the theater company En Avant Playwrights…

* …and its puppet-and-object-theater offshoot, Cardium Mechanicum (www.cardium.org).  Learn more about the puppetry part of my life on my PUPPET PAGE.

* Appointed Artistic Director of New Circle Theatre Company, NYC, in Fall, 2023

* Founder and Artistic Director of Beekeepers Theater, Sheffield MA

* Proud member of the Dramatists Guild, the WGAWGC (Canada) & the Animation Guild

Represented by Karen Kirkland of Culture Creative Entertainment (Agent)

Please feel free to peruse some of my writing via the WRITING page. And thank you for stopping by!!!