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Seth Greenland is an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. He has two published novels, ''Shining City'' and ''The Bones'' as well as four plays. He released a third novel, ''The Angry Buddhist'', (ISBN 978-1-60945-887-4) in 2012. Much of Greenland's work is set in Los Angeles, where he lives, penning characters dealing with or exposed to the dark underbelly of the city and treated in a tone of black humor. His first play, ''Jungle Rot'' won both the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund For New American Plays Award 〔http://www.thejohnfox.com/bookfox/2008/07/a-brief-conversation-with-hung-over-author-seth-greenland-about-his-new-critically-acclaimed-novel-shining-city.html〕 and the American Theatre Critics Association Award.〔http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=107〕 His work is also recognized in anthologies such as ''The Otis L. Guernsey Jr. Best Plays of 1994-95'', ''The Devil's Punchbowl: A Cultural and Geographic Map of California Today,''〔http://redhenpress.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2011ecatalog.pdf〕 and ''Cape Cod Noir.''〔http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781936070978〕 Greenland's screen credits include writing for the HBO series ''Arli$'' and ''Big Love''. He is also a regular contributor to ''The Huffington Post'' and one of the site's original bloggers.〔http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-greenland〕 Outside of writing, Seth Greenland and his wife, Susan Kaiser Greenland, established ''InnerKids'', the first elementary school curriculum incorporating wellness techniques from the emerging practice known as Mindful Awareness. == Biography == Greenland was born in New York City and received his BA at Connecticut College and later, completed an MFA in film at the New York University Tisch School for Arts. He began his career as a journalist for an alternative newspaper called The SoHo Weekly News and writing spec scripts for television. One of his spec scripts caught the attention of T.V. Producer Norman Lear who eventually gave Greenland his first break writing for a television sitcom called "a.k.a. Pablo." This would lead Greenland to Los Angeles, where he began a career in screenwriting. In 1993, Greenland collaborated with Doctor Dré and Ed Lover on the film ''Who's the Man?'', a hip hop whodunnit starring the rap duo, directed by Ted Demme and written by Greenland.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108560/〕 In 1995, Greenland's script ''My Teacher's Wife'' was made into a film starring Tia Carrere, Christopher McDonald and Jason London, and directed by Bruce Leddy. Greenland's latest novel, ''Shining City'', was optioned by Warner Bros. and is currently in development. In 2001, he returned to the television screen writing for the last season of ''Arli$$'' and later, ''The Big Love." Greenland lives in Los Angeles with his wife Susan Kaiser Greenland and their two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seth Greenland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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