Faculty

Deirdre Fishel

Part-Time Assistant Professor

MFA, Hunter; American Film Institute Director's Program

Writer/director of the dramatic feature film Risk, which premiered at Sundance; as well as two documentary features Still Doing It and Sperm Donor X. She just finished The Boy Game, a hybrid doc/drama about gender straitjacketing among middle school boys and is in development on The Boy Game interactive website and a dramatic feature. She is also in production on a new doc that looks at elder care in America and the lives of the workers who do it.

Courses Taught

• Screenwriting I 
• Screenwriting II
• Screenwriting III
• Script Analysis
• Writing the Dramatic Short
• Writing the TV Hour