Based in Chicago, Weiko Lin holds a B.A. in English and a M.F.A. in Film and TV from UCLA, where he was a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award winner. ...
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Based in Chicago, Weiko Lin holds a B.A. in English and a M.F.A. in Film and TV from UCLA, where he was a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award winner.
He started his career in the theater writing and directing plays and musicals produced at UCLA's Royce Hall, Veterans Wadsworth Theatre, and Century City Playhouse. His last play The Best Man world premiered at East West Players’ David Henry Hwang Theater.
In film, Weiko wrote a dramatic feature for The Mark Gordon Company (Grey's Anatomy, Saving Private Ryan) and Good Worldwide (The Messenger, Son of Rambow) on which he will serve as executive producer. Currently he has a comedy and a TV pilot in development at Madhouse Entertainment (First Snow, upcoming Bounty starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler) and is preemptively developing an action thriller with Atlas Entertainment (The Dark Knight).
A Fulbright Senior Specialist, Weiko has taught screenwriting at Taipei National University of the Arts and at University of California. He is currently a screenwriting faculty member at Northwestern University.
Weiko is represented by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
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