PAUL PEDITTO wrote and directed Jane Doe, an A-PIX Films release starring Calista Flockhart. The film was awarded Best Feature at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival. Six of his screenplays have been optioned, among them Crossroaders to Haft Entertainment (Emma, Dead Poet’s Society) He has won semi-finalist honors at Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Awards and Slamdance. Most recently, his short film The Group, has been accepted at multiple film festivals around the country. Four of his stage plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing Company, two of which were presented on National Public Radio’s “Chicago Theaters On The Air” series. Over 25 productions of his theatrical work have been performed in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York. His adaptation of Nelson Algren’s Never Come Morning won 9 Joseph Jefferson Citations including Best Play and Best Adaptation. His adaptation of Ben Hecht’s 1,001 Afternoons In Chicago is a two-time Jefferson Award nominee. Pura Vida, a stage play based on his novel, was produced at Chicago’s Live Bait Theater, earning a feature article in the New York Times. His screenplay, Skin Deep, was a Quarter-finalist at the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship Awards.

He teaches screenwriting at Columbia College and Chicago Filmmakers, professionally consulting on thousands of screenplays since 2002.