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Lee Tidball is an award-winning writer whose screenplays, novels, and graphic novels impress both Hollywood insiders as well as his fiction-reading middle-grade audience.
Lee's love for telling exciting, edgy, family-orientated stories stems from his "day job" of teaching 6th graders, an occupation that plunges him each day into the midst of the current tween/teen/family scene. This experience gives him unique perspectives into what works and doesn't work in family entertainment and also gives his writing an uncommon genuineness and authenticity
Lees sci-fi action screenplay PRINCESS REBORN recently won First Prize in the Family category of The Movie Deal Screenplay Contest for 2008 and is currently under option with Independent Producer Matt Chapman of the Matt Chapman Company LLC. Holiday comedy SANDI CLAUS won Top Ten honors in the Family Film category of the prestigious PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2009 and has gained agency representation. These add to the dozen or more Top Ten/Finalist awards that the two scripts have won in recent years.
Lees also produced a graphic novel version of PRINCESS REBORN which earned Honorable Mention recognition in Writers' Digest magazine's prestigious 15th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards, and his two self-published novels; Windfork Secrets and Hidden Talents; Ginahs Journals, Journal #2 continue to be favorites among the middle-grade students that he teaches in his home of Modesto, CA.
Lees most recent writing efforts, the tween/family sci-fi TV pilot MIDNIGHT PRINCESS (aka Hidden Talents, based on his novel), and the teen romantic comedy/fantasy ATLANTA FROM OLYMPUS have also begun to garner contest recognitions. MIDNIGHT PRINCESS has also received the endorsement of top-shelf TV writer/producer Marc Zicree.
For more information, check out Lees website at www.mrtsmovieclub.com or see his profile on the LinkedIn network at www.linkedin.com/in/leetidball
"Lee Tidball's HIDDEN TALENTS is a marvelous science fiction story about a delightful and engaging junior high school student who suddenly develops superpowers... and learns her long-lost father is from an alien planet. Tidball's not just a talented writer who has an ear for how teens really talk and think -- his years as a popular schoolteacher have put him on the inside track to know exactly what they'll watch. I can't recommend this charming script highly enough." Marc Scott Zicree, Hugo-nominated writer-producer-director, STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION, SLIDERS, DEEP SPACE NINE, BABYLON FIVE.
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