Pen Densham

Pen Densham is an Oscar nominated Hollywood screenwriter, producer, and director, with an extensive track-record in film and television. Pen is responsible for writing and/or producing some of Hollywood's most fascinating and successful movies, such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Backdraft, Tank Girl, Larger Than Life, Just Buried. He was the writer/director of Moll Flanders starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman. - And Houdini for TNT. Along with his Trilogy Entertainment team he Executive Produced many TV series and personally revived The Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone anthologies.

Pen says his first job in show business was riding atop a live alligator for a theatrical short made by his parents. He fell deeply in love with the magic of film and decided to leave school at age 15. He has since spent his lifetime in the business of entertainment, creating features and television series, as well as collaborating with many A-list writers, directors and stars along the way. Pen is also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Cinematic Arts.

Pen has written the book - "Riding The Alligator, Strategies for a Career in Screenplay Writing... and not getting eaten", with one clear goal in mind: to write the kind of book he would have loved to have read when he was starting out as a writer-filmmaker.

For more information about Pen's book, Riding the Alligator: Strategies for a Career in Screenplay Writing (and not getting eaten), including downloading a free chapter, visit ridingthealligator.com