Howard A. Rodman

Professor

213.740.3303
hrodman@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 301

Howard A. Rodman’s screen adaptation of Savage Grace, starring Julianne Moore, premiered in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival in May, 2007. At the same time his original screenplay August, starring Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn, and David Bowie, was filmed in New York and is now in postproduction. Both films are scheduled for release in 2008.  In 2006, Rodman wrote a one-hour dramatic pilot for HBO entitled 213; and his adaptation of the Joseph Mitchell book Joe Gould’s Secret, was the opening night selection of the Sundance Film Festival in 2000 and was released by USA Films.  

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America West, and was the founder and co-chair of the Guild’s independent screenwriters’ caucus. In 2006 he was selected as chair of FilmIndependent's Spirit Awards jury, as well as chair of the annual USC Scripter Awards. He is an artistic director of Sundance Screenwriting Labs in Sundance, Utah, and Wadi Feynan, Jordan.  

Rodman sits on the Board of Advisors of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media in Galway, Ireland, and serves on the American delegation to the Franco-American Cultural Fund in Paris. His novel, Destiny Express has been published in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, and Italy; and his screenplay F. was selected as one of "Hollywood's Ten Best Unproduced Screenplays" by Premiere magazine. He is the former editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun. His essays appear in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and on The Huffington Post. He has been a guest on the PBS Lehrer NewsHour, and on Elvis Mitchell's The Treatment.

After serving for five years as Chair of the Writing Division, Rodman stepped down in 2007 to devote more time to teaching and writing.