Debbie Bolsky is a playwright/screenwriter with more than ten completed projects. She is currently immersed in fine-tuning two projects, the dramady, The Umpire Has No Balls, and the screwball comedy stage play, Ashes to Ashes.   Debbie is very excited about both projects, but especially excited about The Umpires Has No Balls, since it delves into one of her great passions – baseball – and, unlike many of her other works, no one dies.

Her screenplay City of Nets holds the first place award in the Indiefest Chicago Film Festival Writing Competition (2003), was a quarterfinalist in Scriptapalooza (2004), and made the top ten percentile in the Nicholl Fellowships (2004).

Debbie’s experience and expertise in film is multi-faceted, having worked as Associate Producer on the independent film Rogues (2003), and at Columbia Pictures (Sony Pictures Entertainment) in motion picture media advertising and marketing. For over 16 years, and through nine regime changes there, Debbie successfully planned and implemented media strategies for over 400 films including such diverse releases as; Men in Black, Airforce One, As Good As It Gets, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Sense and Sensibility, Ghostbusters, The Last Emperor, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, A League of Their Own, and many more.

While working on Rogues, a supplemental and rare talent of Debbie’s emerged as she took on the demanding role of “Cat Wrangler”, diverting the scene-destroying antics of the resident location mascot “T.C.”, or Terror Cat. Her success with this led to the adoption of her own personal mascot and writing “assistant” (keyboard warmer!), the lovely and purring Trista.

Debbie is a contributor and associated with the newly formed group, Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative. The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI) is an LA-based movement spearheaded by women and men working to ensure that women playwrights are fairly represented on local stages, and beyond. The LAFPI has commissioned a study of playwrights and theatermakers to determine what’s been happening for female playwrights in the Greater Los Angeles area over the past decade. Check out their website for more information: www.lafpi.com.