Keynote Speaker

Victor Miller
Saturday November 11, 2006
7:00 pm

We are very pleased to have Victor Miller of Friday the 13th fame as this year's keynote speaker. Join him as he discusses his experiences as a screen writer.

Buy your tickets early, we expect this to be a sold out event!!

Biography

Victor Brooke Miller was born: May 14, 1940 in New Orleans, LA to John D. and Barbara Miller---the third of four kids, older sister Adair, older brother John, younger brother Keith.

A prepster, whose prosaic parents put him and his siblings in The New York Social Register, he later went on to graduate from Yale College in 1962 with a BA in English and from Tulane University in 1967 with an MA in Theatre & Speech.

He is a three time Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Drama Series Writing and a three time winner of the Writers Guild Awards for Outstanding Daytime Serial Writing. Victor Miller is best known as a film screen writer for the movie Friday The 13th (The First) released by Paramount Pictures in 1980. His long and successful career includes the following:

Screenplays

• FRIDAY THE 13TH (The First) Paramount Pictures release
• JURY DUTY, MGM/UA, David Niven Jr.
• GETTING IN, Thorn-EMI, Inc.
• A STRANGER IS WATCHING, MGM Release
• ASYLUM, Columbia Picture
• RIDGE RUN, Filmways
• MANNY'S ORPHANS ("Kick"), Sean S. Cunningham release
• HERE COME THE TIGERS, AIP release (pseud.)
• THE BLACK PEARL, Cash and Swimmer release
• WILLIE THE ACTOR SUTTON, Brud Talbot, Dana Films
• ON THE EDGE, Martha Coolidge Productions
• ALL MEN'S HANDS, Dana Films

Novels

• WINDBORNE, Bantam Books
• AMERICAN DYNASTY (3 Volumes), Dell Books
• ANGEL'S BLOOD, Playboy Press
• TOGA PARTY, Fawcett
• THE GLORY SHARERS, Jove
• HIDE THE CHILDREN, Ballantine
• FERNANDA, Pocket Books

Non-fiction

• GIVING IN TO GET YOUR WAY, Delacorte, reprinted as AIKIDO IN EVERYDAY
• LIFE, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 1993
• THE BOOK OF WORRIES, Warner Books

Television

• ALL MY CHILDREN, Head Writer, Associate Head Writer
• ANOTHER WORLD, Associate Head Writer
• GENERAL HOSPITAL, Writer
• GUIDING LIGHT, Head Writer, Associate Head Writer
• ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Associate Head Writer