Footprints
Charles
Degelman
Charles Degelman is a writer, editor, publisher and educator living in Los Angeles.
He recently completed an MFA degree in Communications Studies (television, film, and theater) at California State University, Los Angeles where he teaches screenwriting and media studies.
A longtime theater artist, Degelman co-founded the Indecent Exposure Theater Company (IndEx), an ongoing, Los Angeles - based theater company dedicated to creating original, high-quality, socially relevant work for the stage.
He serves as Editorial Director for Harvard Square Editions, a publishing house designed to cross national and cultural borders with contemporary, living fiction. He is currently working on Gates of Eden, a novel set inside the anti-war movement of the 1960s.
His first novel, A Bowl Full of Nails, was a finalist in the Bellwether Competition, sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver. Impressions of two trips to Cuba have been published in Cuba by Travelers Tales. Excerpts from American Postcards, narrative snapshots of growing up absurd in the 1950s appear in Above Ground, an anthology of international fiction.
His first screenplay, FIFTY-SECOND STREET, garnered an award from the Diane Thomas Competition.
His latest screenplay, The Red Car is a finalist in the American Zoetrope competition, sponsored by Francis Ford Coppola.
He has written and produced documentary and educational films for TNT, Churchill Films, Pyramid Films, Philips Interactive Media, and others. Titles include a feature-length biography of filmmaker John Huston for TNT and an award-winning biography of Mozart for Philips Interactive.
