Pamela Douglas, M.A.

Associate Professor
Former Chair

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Pamela Douglas is an award-winning writer with numerous credits in television drama. The second edition of her book Writing The TV Drama Series (2007) follows the best-selling First Edition published in 2005, and has received international acclaim and been adopted by network mentoring programs.

Douglas has been honored with the prestigious Humanitas Prize for Between Mother and Daughter (CBS), an original drama which also won nomination for a Writers Guild Award. Multiple Emmy nominations and awards, and awards from American Women in Radio and Television went to other dramas she wrote. She was a creator of the PBS series Ghostwriter, and was Story Editor of the Emmy-winning CBS series, Frank's Place. Additional series credits include A Year in the Life, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, west. Within the Writing Division of the School of Cinematic Arts, she created the television curriculum and heads the television track.