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Ms. Lehman’s screenplays have been optioned for production. She has also won the Austin Film Festival, the Set in Texas Screenplay Award, and the prestigious Horton Foote Excellence in Screenwriting Award. She is a recipient of a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Scriptwriting. Her work has also been recognized by the Moondance Film Festival, Cinephile, Best in the West, Writers Digest, and others. She is a member of Philadelphia Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild of America.
In Los Angeles, Ms. Lehman worked as a story editor, she has ghost written horror films and proud of her material for the Gong Show. As a member of SAG, AFTRA and AEA, she has worked as an actress on stage, film, TV, and many television commercials. She started teaching acting in Los Angeles soon after completing her graduate studies. She has taught at CA State University, Northridge, the University of Judaism, Pasadena Playhouse and several other theatres. She created her own student theatre company, Saturday Matinee Players, where producing twenty-three productions in ten years, all the box office proceed were donated to charity, She was accredited by the California Bar Association to teach attorneys communication skills through acting. With a therapist, she created “Act Yourself” a workshop for self-development and expression and presented at the National Association of Psyco-dramatists.
Since coming to the Philadelphia area, Ms. Lehman continues her own projects and as a story editor to local screenwriters. She has taught at West Chester University over ten years and at other local colleges before joining DeSales.
Ms. Lehman holds a BA in theatre and an MFA in acting, both from UCLA.
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