Paul Brown

Paul Brown is an award-winning writer, director and producer, having worked in film and television for over twenty years. He has produced over a hundred hours of network television drama, pilots, and television movies, working on such series at The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Twilight Zone, Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise. He has written in numerous genres, including romantic comedies, historical war epics, murder mysteries, true crime, supernatural thrillers, and science fiction. With over thirty produced scripts, he has received three Emmy nominations, as well as winning the prestigious Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He also received the Ark Trust’s Genesis Award for animal rights. He has just completed writing a Camp Rock, starring the Jonas Brothers, for Disney.

Most recently, his work has taken him around the world to develop quality feature film projects. For Terence Chang and John Woo’s City Of Dragons, he traveled to Hong Kong and Australia to interview Grandmaster William Cheung – Bruce Lee’s best friend and senior Kung Fu instructor in Hong Kong in the 1950s. He adapted Cheung’s story about the untold rise of Bruce Lee; from child actor, to one of the fiercest fighters on the streets of Hong Kong. For Man Of Two Worlds, he traveled to Durban and Capetown to adapt the story of a sixty-year friendship of a white man and his black servant in Apartheid South Africa. His work has also taken him to the French Riviera for the romantic comedy, Enchante, as well as to Nagasaki, Japan for the coming-of-age drama, Silk Letters. Paul is currently adapting the autobiographical novel, Diamond In The Rough, the story of an Italian-American soldier who gets severely wounded in the Korean War. When the soldier returns home and is unable to find work, he faces his greatest battle by fighting the Mafia’s attempts to lure him into their dark world.

As a director and acting coach, he has trained with Larry Moss, Roy London, and Uta Hagen. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, Paul Brown was Phi Beta Kappa and Valedictorian at the English Commencement.

In addition to his work in television and film, Paul Brown lectures to colleges and unversities in the Visiting Writer’s Program for the Writers Guild of America.

Film Credits

• 2006-08 CITY OF DRAGONS: Lion Rock Productions/Blue Star Movies/A Wink And A Nod Productions
  
• 2006 DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH (Novel Adaptation): Costa Productions
  
• 2004-05 CHARGER: Christiana Productions
  
• 2003 SILK LETTERS
  
• 2002 MAN OF TWO WORLDS: Intersound Films
  
• 2001 ENCHANTE
  
• 1986 THRASHIN’: Alan Sacks/Fries Productions
• THE FABULOUS FRANKIE
• BLUE TATTOO
  

Television Movie Credits

• 2008 CAMP ROCK : Alan Sacks Productions/Disney Channel, WRITER
• 1998-99 OUTRAGE IN GLEN RIDGE: Robert Greenwald/ABC, WRITER/PRODUCER
• 1997 MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS: Viacom/ABC, WRITER
• 1996 NOT IN THIS TOWN: Universal, WRITER (rewrite)
• 1996 AMERICA'S MOST WANTED:DANGEROUS GAME: Fox 2000/FBC, WRITER
  
• 1996 THE BODY: CBSP/CBS, WRITER (rewrite)
  
• 1995 JOHNS: Citadel/FBC, WRITER/PRODUCER
• 1995 MURDER FROM BEYOND: Edgar Scherick/NBC, WRITER
• 1994 SAM SPADE: Spelling/CBS, WRITER (rewrite)
• 1993-94 WACO: Citadel/ABC, WRITER

Television Credits

• 2003 STAR TREK ENTERPRISE: Paramount, WRITER
  
• 2001 CURIOSITY: Pilot, Regency Television, CREATOR/WRITER
• 2000 STAR TREK VOYAGER: Paramount/UPN, WRITER
• 2000 ENIGMA: Pilot, Fox Family Channel, CREATOR/WRITER
• 1999 TRYSS: Pilot, Rolland Joffe/CBS, CREATOR/WRITER
• 1998-99 PACIFIC BLUE: Bill Nuss Productions/USA, WRITER/SUPERVISING PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
• 1998 FIRST WAVE: American Zoetrope, WRITER
  
• 1996 THE CENTER: Viacom/NBC, CREATIVE CONSUTLANT/WRITER
  
• 1994 THE X-FILES: Twentieth/Fox, WRITER/PRODUCER
• 1993-94 BODY AND SOUL: Pilot, Universal/FBC/Zaden-Meron, CREATOR/WRITER
• 1993-94 HOWIE LONG: Pilot, Kushner-Locke/CBS, CREATOR/WRITER 
• 1993 SOUTH OF SUNSET: Paramount/CBS, WRITER/PRODUCER
• 1993 MANA FROM HEAVEN: Pilot, Spelling/CBS, CREATOR/WRITER
• 1993 LA FAMILIA: Kushner-Locke/NBC, EPISODE
• 1992-93 CROSSROADS: Lorimar/ABC, WRITER/PRODUCER
• 1989-92 QUANTUM LEAP: Universal/NBC, WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
  
• 1989 THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE: Syndication/MGM, WRITER
  

Awards

• EMMY AWARDS: 3 Emmy Nominations, 1990, 1991, 1992
  
• MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA: BEST MYSTERY-DRAMA - "Edgar" Award
  
• MEDIA ACCESS AWARDS - Nomination - Best Drama
• "GENESIS" ANIMAL RIGHTS AWARD - Best Drama

Education

BA in English Literature – Univ. of California, Berkeley – 1981 Valedictorian at English Commencement, Phi Beta Kappa

Harvard Writing Program. UCLA Film Extension. Larry Moss Acting Workshop – four years to present.

Roy London Acting Workshop - six years.

Uta Hagen Master Acting Workshop.