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MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 2007
MA, The University of Missouri at Columbia
BA, Brown University
Prior to joining Fayetteville State University, she taught courses in film writing, journalism, network development, and media history at New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, College of the Canyons, National University, and California State University at Northridge.
She also presented guest lectures at George Fox University, The Unity Conference, The Broadcast Education Association, and California State University at San Bernardino.
Professor Dent is an active member of the Writers Guild of America West, Independent Film, The National Association of Black Journalists, and the Black Journalism Association of Southern California. |
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As a full time writer and as a freelancer, Skye Dent has written more than a thousand news and magazine articles, broadcast news segments, documentaries, TV drama shows, and films. As a journalist, she wrote for The Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, AP, CBS Evening News, CBS Morning News, The Oakland Tribune, Documentary Magazine, DirecTV Magazine, Vicus.com health magazine, The Praeger Book of Medicine, The Cape Cod Times, and Root Magazine in London. She was also a TV writer and/or producer for Star Trek Voyager, The Burning Zone, and Showtime. She has written a video game for the NIH. She wrote and/or produced a half dozen documentaries for Discovery Channel and 12 commercials for Paramount/Discovery. And she was the Unit Publicist on five feature films. She owns her own independent production company called The Roxbury Projects, which is in the process of developing a romantic comedy film and a sci fi film noir feature. She also operates a job and intern web site called 482 Productions for students from her classes who graduate. <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> |
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS |
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Video Game Scripts
Pick Up The Night, a safe sex video game, NIH
Freelance Newspaper Articles and Columns
The Boston Globe newspaper, Features
The Hartford Courant, Illustrated Columns
Freelance Magazine Articles
Documentary magazine
Written By magazine
Root magazine (London)
Freelance News & Magazine Website Articles
Vicus.Com health news site
DirecTV website magazine
Documentaries (writer and/or producer)
Discovery Channel, Baffin Island
Discovery Channel, Phobias
Discovery Channel, Trains That Crash
Discovery Channel, Universal Studios
PBS, Black People For Reel
AMC, Hate On Film
Films, Movies, TV, Commercials
(writer and/or producer/creator)
Film, Ex Appeal, in development
Film, Remake, A Warm December, in development
Film, Lake Merritt, a sci fi film noir, in development
Film, Three Bop Blues, optioned by Disney Studios
Film, December, for actor Dennis Haysbert
TV Movie, Maestro, Showtime
TV Series, The Burning Zone, staff writer, UPN/Universal
TV Series, Star Trek Voyager, Phage
Commercials/Promos, Titanic, Discovery/Paramount
Commercials/Promos, Insurrection, Discovery/Paramount
Commercials/Promos, Meteors, Discovery/Paramount
Full-Time Staff Journalism Positions
CBS Evening News/CBS Morning News
The Oakland Tribune
The San Bernardino Sun
The Cape Cod Times
The Associated Press
Text Books
Co-Author, 24/7 in the E.R., a Praeger Medical Text
Awards
ABC Disney Screenwriting Fellowship
Gertrude Stein Award
NY Women in Business
Women Make Movies
Other Feature Film Positions
Fled, Unit Publicist
My Teacher’s Wife, Unit Publicist
Tales From The Hood, Unit Publicist
Mo’ Money, Unit Publicist
To Sleep With Anger, Unit Publicist
The Glass Shield, Assistant to the Director
Rogue, Producer (A short film)
Story Analyst, Shadow Hills Productions |
