House, Divided
 La Tempestad
 The Ballad of John Wesley Reed
 Girl Science
 The Allure of Oriental Wisdom
 Memorial Day (formerly Varia)
 Pride of the Lion
 The Dostoyevsky Man


 Monica for Chanukah
 Angie and Arnie Sanguine
 Edward and Ellie Supine
 The Lion Eats His Lunch
 The Lion in His Lair
 The Lion Leaves His Mark
 Prayers


 But Who's Counting?
 Emma Goldman Imagines the Millenium


 Just Before the War Between the Plates
 I Can Handle That


 Talking  with Lee Blessing

...with Tom Coash
...with Mary Fengar Gail
...with Richard Kalinowsky
...with Jamie Pachino
...with David Rambo
...with Jason Sherman
...with Naomi Wallace
...with Tom Gibbons
...with Dick Goldberg

Since 1985, I have worked as a film and television writer, producer, and director.

In May, 1985, I was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from Temple University's RTF Department in Film and Television.

By the time I was awarded my degree, my work had received recognition in two major student competitions. I was a finalist The Nissan/Focus Screenwriting Competition in 1983 with a feature screenplay called Paper Work. I also won a regional Student Academy Award in 1985 for a short fiction film called Learning the Changes which I wrote and co-produced and co-directed with Jan Roberts-Breslin, a fellow temple RTF graduate.

In July of 1985, Jan and I went to Trinidad and Tobago, the southern-most country in the Caribbean, to co-direct a feature film called Turn of the Tide. Upon my return I began working as a free-lance writer, director, and producer. I have continued to write, produce, and direct free-lance, but I have also worked occasionally in-house (1986-1987 for Audio-Visual Integrators) or under contract (1992 -1994 for Astra Merck, and 1994 - 1998 for New Jersey Education Association.)

My free-lance clients have included The American Cancer Society, American Association of Retired People, New Jersey Education Association, Presbyterian Hospital, Einstein Hospital, The Allens Lane Arts Center, The Philadelphia Aids Task Force Education Committee, Rosenbluth Travel, Du Pont, Cigna, Reliance Insurance, The Green Tree, Merck & Company, Acme Markets, Amp Industries, Astra/Merck, Educational Testing Service, Unisys, American Cyanamid and others.

Two of my scripts for American Cancer Society projects were for widely distributed films. The Intricate Cell (1985) is an award-winning film about healthy and cancer cell biology which is the American Cancer Society's standard cell biology film. In 1986 I wrote a film about the fight against cancer in the third world.

I have also worked as a writer on several grant-based documentary projects. In 1985-1986 I was the a researcher and writer for Let the Doors be of Iron, a film about the history of Eastern State Penitentiary which has been widely broadcast and is now used as the orientation film for tours of the prison. Let the Doors be of Iron is narrated by Ed Asner. In 1992 - 1993 I was the writer of a script called Wholesome Water, a Pennsylvania Council on the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities-funded documentary film project about the Fairmount Water Works and the relationship between water and urban growth.

In 1992, I co-wrote with Lou Greenstein, Incident in Aisle Seven, an episode of Rugrats, an animated children's television series, now in continuous broadcast on the Nickelodeon Network. All of the writers for 1992 season shared a Daytime Emmy Award for scriptwriting. In 1999, Nickelodeon released a CD of Nicktoons music, including our Reptar jingle.

From 1994 - 1998 I was the producer of Classroom Close Up, New Jersey, a multiple award-winning half-hour magazine-style television broadcast on WWOR in New York and WPHL in Philadelphia which focused on public education. I employed a full-time a staff of 3 segment producers, one camera person, and one sound person. I hired and supervised staff, controlled budget (over $400,000 yearly), oversaw on-line post production, supervised field production and was responsible for the overall design and acquisition of content for the show. Classroom Close Up, New Jersey has won over 20 local, regional, and national awards from organizations, festivals, and broadcast stations including the New Jersey Cable Television Network CAPE Award as Best Program of 1995, and awards from the US International Film and Video Festival, New Jersey Press Women, the Association of State Education Editors, the National Federation of Press Women, and the Public Relations Council of the National Education Association.

Several other scripts or productions of mine have won awards.

The Intricate Cell and Let the Doors be of Iron have both won Cine Awards.

Manayunk, feature-length screenplay, was a 1993 semi-finalist in the "Set in Philadelphia" screenplay competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema.

In 1992 I was awarded The American Scene Award from the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists "for productions which, through non-stereotypical presentation of women, minorities, and seniors, progressively portray the diversity of the American Scene."

Inquiries about my work can be made through this site, and information about RFP's can be forwarded to me here. Samples of my work are available on request.

For more detailed information about my professional history, or for writing-related inquiries, please contact me directly at Larry@Loebell.com.