

In other roles, Stewart provided live coverage of some of the biggest stories in America and has also worked on national shows such as JFK: Inside the Evidence, Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, Hot Ticket, and the launch of the National Geographic channel.

He worked as an executive producer on multiple newscasts for KCBS/KCAL Los Angeles and also served as an executive producer at NBC Los Angeles. Following his graduation from Emerson, he attended the Yale School of Drama.Ĭharles Stewart ’86 is an award-winning executive producer, producer, and writer who has created, developed, executed, and supervised everything from live and taped TV news programs to documentaries, talk, digital, and entertainment shows on a local and national level. Prior to attending Emerson, he was the recipient of the 1968 Dewey Prize from the University of Rochester.

He has also been a mentor to aspiring film and television directors from the University of Southern California. Arthur Goldman’s Birthday Party were performed at the Yale Cabaret Hollywood.

His scripts for The Oscillating Marbleman and Dr. Red and Scooter was a finalist for the National Repertory Theater Foundation Play Award. His play A Death in the House Next Door to Kathleen Turner’s House on Long Island was produced by the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. His theater work has taken him across the country, including shows at WPA Theatre in New York, Long Wharf Theater, The O’Neill Theatre Center, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theatre, Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Milwaukee Rep, Antaeus Theatre, South Coast Rep, and ACT Seattle. As one of the directors of the soap opera General Hospital for over 25 years, he’s received three Directors Guild of America Awards and nine Daytime Emmy Awards. William Ludel ’70 has had a nearly 50-year career as a television and theater director and playwright. Cook served as a consulting producer on the pilot.Ĭurrently, Cook is a professor of screenwriting at Emerson College, where she also serves as the director of the BFA in Comedic Arts, is the Founding Director of the Center for Comedic Arts and co-created Emerson’s low residency MFA in screenwriting program. Together, they co-wrote a treatment for a comedy pilot about the war, which Cook sold to Warner Bros., Jerry Bruckheimer Television, and NBC. Additionally, Cook mentored two soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
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A member of the Writers Guild of America West, Cook has written for hit television shows such as the top-ten Nielsen-rated Full House and the PBS Emmy-award winning children's show Zoom.Ĭook is author of the critically acclaimed book, Write To TV: Out of Your Head and Onto the Screen, 3rd edition (Focal Press/Routledge) used by professional writers, in college classrooms, and by budding writers alike.Ĭook has served as an international writing mentor at Series Mania Writers Campus in Lille France, a division of Series Mania, one of Europe’s most important TV events. She has worked for ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS as well as for Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and Universal Studios. Martie Cook ‘82, MFA ‘00 has more than three decades of experience as a respected writer and producer of television and film.
