Laurie H. Hutzler
Laurie H. Hutzler has worked as a story and character consultant to the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, talkbackTHAMES, Mersey Television/Lime Pictures and Aardman Animation Studio (UK), for NBC Universal, Pixar University, Disney and Dreamworks (US), Endemol Netherlands (NL), RTE (Ireland), RTL, Weidemann Berg and Grudy UFA (Germany), GloboMedia (Spain) and TNT (Russia) among others.
She has worked a consultant for Endemol and for FremantleMedia across a variety of scripted and entertainment formats in the UK, Europe and Australia.
Laurie Hutzler has had several plays produced in theaters across the US, winning two Madoline Cervantes Awards at Lincoln Center in New York City.
She was a staff writer and story consultant on Oscar-winner Paul Haggis’ NBC series, The Black Donnellys. She also worked with Haggis on his films: In the Valley of Elah and Quantum of Solace. She consulted on two Oscar-winning foreign language films; as a story advisor on Tsotsi (South Africa) and on The Counterfeiter (Austria), as an eQuinoxe script advisor.
Laurie taught screenwriting in the MFA program at the UCLA Film School for ten years, and was an Artist-in-Residence in Television and Digital Entertainment at SMU in Dallas.
She has taught for the Royal Literary Fund in Cambridge, England; The Sorbonne in Paris, France; Royal Holloway College, University of London in London England; DffB film school in Berlin, Germany and IFS film school in Cologne, Germany, and has presented programs sponsored by the Norwegian and Irish National Film Boards.
She is available for corporate and private consultations. Her email is [email protected]
“Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.”