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

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