Resume of Dana Biscotti Myskowski                                       
 Mentor/Tutor 
  • Added to the state's Teaching Artist Roster, New Hampshire (2017)
  • Worked one-on-one with a gifted junior high writer, Henniker, NH, (2012-2015)
  • Helped high school students with their writing, LearningWorks-AmeriCorps AIMS HIGH, Sullivan & Portland, Maine, (2014) 
  • Mentored high school students, helping with their senior writing projects, Weare, NH (2006-2007, 2009-2010)
  • Home schooled son and daughter, first & third-grade curriculums, and tenth grade/GED prep for early high school graduation/college enrollment

Teach
Monadnock International Film Festival (Spring 2017 & 2015)
  • Teach Screenwriting to high school students in Peterborough, NH
  • Organize judging of scripts for festival prize
University of New Hampshire-Manchester (January 2004 - December 2015)
Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award, 2008-2009
  • Taught scriptwriting, media writing, and image & sound
  • Led students through Independent Study Writing Projects 
  • Advised interns
On-line courses at Southern New Hampshire University (August 2012-June 2015)
  • Taught creative writing, composition, and screenwriting
  • Authored the original course: Screenwriting for Media Arts
New England College, Henniker, NH (Fall 2009 & Fall 2011)
  • Taught screenwriting
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA (Spring 2000)
  • Taught English Composition

Write, Produce & Consult
New England (April 1991 - Present), including (but not limited to) the following projects:
  • Manage the Twitter campaign for Fish & Men feature film documentary in post-production. (Nov. 2014 to Present)
  • Managed the Instagram and Twitter feeds for New Hampshire Bowl and Board, and explored the Pinterest page for the company. (November & December 2016)
  • Edited a screenplay for a former politician and public figure, and created marketing materials. (July 2016)
  • Produced The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Concord seven-minute videos (2010 - 2015; won Telly Awards for the 2010 & 2011 videos)
  • Wrote as a freelancer for Business NH Magazine's Fast Five article, Fall 2015
  • Assisted with production of "Commuters," a UNH scriptwriting class-developed web series; ten episodes written, three produced (2015)
  • Produced short web video, A New Approach, two+ minutes, web video for the Ann McLane Kuster for Congress campaign, with colleagues at EVP Marketing & Media and one of my former UNH at Manchester students
  • Set-up and helped manage website; wrote, edited, and assisted in social media outreach, and designed print advertisements and direct mail postcards for the successful election campaign of David Karrick-Merrimack District 25 (Summer & Fall 2012)
  • Produced the regionally Emmy-nominated Public Service Announcement To the Power of YOU for Big Sisters of Rhode Island, 2012; winner of the inaugural  7DayPSA Competition hosted by FLICKERS, winter 2011; winner, The New Media Film Festival, Autumn 2011
  • Wrote Breathing Space for the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (45-minute multi-media planetarium script on climate change, 2004)
  • Produced, wrote and voiced over radio and TV Public Service Announcements for RachelFind 
  • Wrote and voiced over a point-of-sale video script for General Dynamics/Anteon Corporation
  • Wrote articles for The Berkshire Business Journal
  • Edited the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Alumni Magazine

Help judge the New Hampshire High School Film Festival (Spring 2016 to Present)

Served as Board Member, NH Film & Television Commission (Spring 2010 - 2014)

Directed the New Hampshire Film Festival Screenplay Competition (2010 - 2013)

Judged the 48-Hour Film Project, New Hampshire (2009 - 2011)

Chaired the Script Selection Committee, NH Film & TV Office, Concord, NH (2008 & 2009)

Produced, Directed, & served as Dramaturge, Jayme's Fund for Social Justice, Southern NH (January - October 2009)
  • Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark, written by Award-Winning Playwright Ariel Dorfman, Oct. 17, 2009 benefit performance with cast of novelists, political activists, accomplished actors, radio personalities, a musician, and a much celebrated poet.

Served as Volunteer Secretary, Water Resources Subcommittee, Henniker, NH (2008 - 2011)

Fulfilled Various Positions, ScriptBiz Screenwriting Seminar, Providence, RI
Panel Moderator (August 2011 & 2012), Consultant (2005-2007), Director (2004 & 2005), Panelist (August 2003)
  • Planned and implemented one-day screenwriting seminar followed a year later with a two-day seminar directed at screenwriters and filmmakers at the Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival.
  • Organized a short script competition that culminated with a stage reading by professional actors (including Danny Trejo during the second year) of the top three screenplays

Created public relations and advertising content; planned and implemented marketing, scholarly, and employee outreach events, and managed Health Tips marketing line and employees as Marketing Coordinator/Physician Relations Advisor, Mary Immaculate Hospital, Newport News, VA (Aug. 1989 - April 1991)

Wrote weekly, biweekly, and monthly newsletters, General Electric Company, Aerospace and Transformer Divisions, Pittsfield, MA (1987-1989)

Wrote & Announced Drive Time News, WSPR Radio, Springfield, MA (1987)

Served as Production Assistant, for A Mistaken Charity (aired on PBS), Berkshires, MA (1986)

Education:
  • Goddard College, M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Screenwriting (Jan. 2008)
  • UCLA, Professional Certificate in Screenwriting (June 2000)
  • North Adams State College, B.A. English/Communications (May 1987)