About Ron Osborn, Screenwriter
Ron Osborn is an experienced screenwriter, producer, and executive consultant with a career spanning over 40 years. Ron Osborn’s movies have grossed nearly $500 million worldwide and his television writing has earned him Emmy nominations during the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
When you learn from Ron Osborn, you're not just learning from a teacher; you're learning from a Hollywood insider who has navigated the exhilarating highs and challenging lows of the film and television industry for over three decades developing film projects with Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and George Lucas. Ron isn't just a writer; he's a master architect of story who understands that true success lies at the intersection of creativity and commerce--and teaches the importance of satisfying both sides of that equation.
His impressive list of credits, including seminal shows like 'Mork and Mindy,' 'Night Court,' 'Moonlighting,' 'Duckman,' and 'The West Wing,' is a testament to his versatility. He has written comedy and drama, having garnered Emmy nominations in both, and has developed pilots for every major network and numerous premium cable channels. This isn't academic theory. This is hard-won wisdom from the writers' rooms, the network pitch meetings, and the executive suites where careers are made and broken.
RON'S CREDENTIALS
- • 4 decades+ of experience, member of WGA and DGA.
- • Sold or commissioned to write over 30 pilots, half-hour and hour, comedy and drama, live action and animation, to all major U.S. broadcast networks, basic cable networks FX, USA, MTV, Lifetime, ABC Family/Freeform and Disney, and premium cable networks HBO and Showtime.
- • Features writer /rewriter for Universal, Sony, New Regency, Tristar, Amblin.
- • Writing seminars in Perth, Australia; Mumbai, India; Lisbon, Portugal, and Hawaii.
- • Visual Literacy classes at Dreamworks Animation.
- • Nominated for 8 Emmys, 3 Cable Ace Awards, 2 WGA Awards.
- • Writers Guild commendation for writing on two of WGA-voted 101 Best-Written Series (Moonlighting and The West Wing).
- • 36 years as a college professor of Introductory and Advanced Screenwriting; 5 years professor of Writing for Animation.
- • Writer/Showrunner in half-hour comedy, one hour comedy and drama, and half-hour animation.
- • Creator, writer and presenter of The Ultimate Screenwriter Course.
Ron will teach you how to be more than just a writer. He'll teach you how to be a professional—how to craft a story that can better survive the brutal studio notes process and how to balance your artistic vision with the commercial realities of the industry. He embodies the spirit of the ultimate screenwriter: a mastery of both the art and the business necessary to bring it to life.
Why Ron Osborn's Approach and Experience Make a huge difference in your success
Screenwriting is an art form unto itself. Compared to other forms of creative writing, it might as well be a foreign language. A great screenwriting course needs to accomplish three things:
Define and deliver the technical aspects of writing a good screenplay: formatting, three-act structure, character development, plot, theme, dialogue, and above all, storytelling.
Teach these fundamentals in a manner that is easy to digest, resonates, and becomes ingrained in your writing. A good screenwriter is not necessarily a good teacher.
Impart a thorough understanding of what it takes to write a script that will sell. Successful screenwriters know the difference between a great story and a great story they can sell.
Ron Osborn’s Ultimate Screenwriter Course checks all three boxes:
1. Ron has been a professional screenwriter spanning four decades.
2. For 36 years, he has taught at the prestigious Art Center College of Design, held screenwriting seminars from Australia to Mumbai and gave classes on visual literacy at Dreamworks Animation.
3. As a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Directors Guild of America (DGA) as well as being an Executive Producer and show runner, he has sat on both sides of the Hollywood pitch table and has been behind legendary shows such as Mork & Mindy, Night Court, Moonlighting and The West Wing, Duckman and has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards, three CableAce Awards and two Writers Guild Awards.
Ron isn't just teaching theory. He's teaching what actually works in Hollywood TODAY.
Graduate Success Stories
Real Students who made Real Films taking our original mentor-based screenwriting course which evolved into the Ultimate Screenwriter Course with optional private mentorship available from professional screenwriters and producers.