College of Fine Arts and Communication


Department of Electronic Media and Film

Faculty

Michael Angelella

Assistant Professor
Instructor in script writing and screenwriting
University of Southern California, 1977

Office:   SA 125
Phone:   410-704-2408
E-mail:   mangelella@towson.edu
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Michael Angelella

Michael Angelella is a screenwriter and published author.

As a screenwriter, his feature film credits include Mother (Kings Road Productions, 1996), a domestic thriller starring Olympia Dukakis and Diane Ladd; Canes (Fries Entertainment, 2006), a horror film starring Michael Madsen and Edward Furlong; and Drawback, a supernatural thriller currently in development with producer Robert Cort (Jumanji, Something the Lord Made, Save the Last Dance).

In 2004 - 2005, he served as head writer for The 100 Greatest Discoveries, an eight-part series produced by The Discovery Channel. In 2007, he wrote two episodes for Rome: Death of an Empire, a documentary series produced for The History Channel.

On the publishing side, he is the author of Trail of Blood, a true crime book about a notorious serial killer of the 1920s, for which he was awarded the Time magazine fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

In addition, he has hundreds of scriptwriting credits for institutional and corporate films of every description. Recently, he has written films for The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Peabody Institute, and The Walters Art Gallery.

Mr. Angelella earned his M.F.A. in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California.



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