“Allen Zadoff has given me what I've always been looking for--

            a thorough, step by step way to approach the seemingly

            sprawling art of novel writing. I’m eternally grateful.”

1. -                                      -- Annalee Wooster, writer/filmmaker
   

My clients experience huge creative leaps in a very short time.  Stuck writers become unstuck.  Projects that have been unclear suddenly come into focus.  Stories that seem impossible to figure out unfold effortlessly before the writer.  Within one session you will know if I am the right coach for you.  I guarantee you will leave the session with a new perspective on your work and a fresh perspective of your role as an artist. As we continue to work together, I can guide you in structuring your work and launching it into the world.

Working one-on-one, I ask questions and suggest exercises that invite your imagination to play, guiding you as you create the story inside of you.  My job is not to write it for you or to criticize the story you want to write.  Instead I help you connect deeply to your own creative process--and that allows the story emerge. Clients are often surprised at how easy it is to write in this way.  What seemed like heavy lifting becomes a joyful, exciting adventure.

I specialize in working with artists of all genres via phone, Skype, or iChat.  My clients are located throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia.  Los Angeles-based writers can contact me for more info about in-person meetings.

           “Allen Zadoff has helped my screenwriting in ways

            that no other class has. It has given me a method of exploring

            story structure and character that I plan on using for the rest of

            my life.  The work we did revealed things about my characters that

            became integral to the story--things that I never could have

            accessed on my own."

1. -                                   -- Rebecca Cutter, USC Film School grad,
   

2. -                                        writer/director of "Eating", which premiered
   

3. -                                        at the Sundance Film Festival.
   

Showrunners, novelists, TV writers, screenwriters, memoirists.  First-time writers, actors who have always wanted to write their own piece, bloggers looking to launch a new blog or better define their voice in an ongoing one, comics who want to create a one-person show. I work with writers who have been writing their entire lives as well as professionals from other fields who have always dreamed of writing but have never picked up a pen.

          “Working with Allen has helped me to get to the

               deepest places in my book with an ease I greatly

               appreciate – and I attribute directly to him.  He helps me

               to write joyfully without ever feeling like he is influencing

               my choices. (A great gift indeed!)”

                                     -- Stephanie Hubbard, award-winning

                                        documentary film editor and author

Allen Zadoff is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, Hungry, published by Da Capo Press. He is currently at work on the second novel of a two-book deal for Egmont-USA.  A former stage director, Mr. Zadoff has worked as a television writer and filmmaker in Hollywood and was a participant in the Warner Bros. Comedy Writers Workshop. His screenplays were semi-finalists in both the Chesterfield and Nicholls Fellowships. His column, Hollywood Letters, was a regular magazine feature in Tokyo, Japan from 2003-2006.  Mr. Zadoff is a graduate of Cornell University and the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard as well as for the LAUSD, and the L.A. Writers Lab.  His novel, Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have is the recipient of the 2010 Sid Fleischman Humor Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.  His new novel will be released by Egmont-USA in Spring ’11.