"Hi there! Ed V. here: TV writer, playwright, writing coach, mentor, tutor, and teacher. I'm a four-time Daytime Emmy Award winner for writing on Sesame Street and a three-time winner of Hunter College’s Irv Zarkower Playwriting Award.

In theater, I was awarded a Dramatists Guild Fellowship in Playwriting and was named one of “50 Writers to Watch” in The Dramatist Magazine. My plays have had productions around the U.S. and internationally, including NYC, LA, Seattle, and Dublin, Ireland. I have launched a regional theater in the Berkshires.

In TV, I received a Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship, and I've written on many shows, including The Fairly OddParents, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Doc McStuffins, and Ultimate Spiderman. I have been Head Writer on Netflix / Nickelodeon’s Sharkdog, as well as Story Editor and Workshop Leader for Sesame International productions in India, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.

I'm here today because I have a passion for teaching writing to students at all levels, from elementary school to grad school and beyond. I have 6 years of 4th grade teaching in my background - and most recently I taught screenwriting, TV animation masterclasses, and essay writing at NYU. I was also the inaugural MFA Thesis Professor in Visual Narrative at The School of Visual Arts.

I split my time between Sheffield, MA and NYC, where I studied playwriting with esteemed playwrights Tina Howe (Hunter College) and Len Jenkin (NYU), as well as TV writing with Charlie Rubin and Joe Kelly (NYU). I'm a graduate of Boston College and have my MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

I look forward to working with you - and to helping you bring out the very best in your writing!" less...