About

Coleman Ann Hough

Lecturer

Contact Information
E-mail: chough@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3252
Office: THH 355 H

 

Biographical Sketch
COLEMAN HOUGH wrote the screenplay for FULL FRONTAL directed by Steven Soderbergh. BUBBLE is her second collaboration with Soderbergh. Between writing FULL FRONTAL and BUBBLE, she wrote a script for HBO about the life of Katharine Graham. Coleman grew up in Charleston, SC. She studied acting and writing at Emerson College in Boston, MA, where she received a BFA in 1982. She won a Rotary scholarship to study acting at THE DRAMA STUDIO in London in 1984. In 1986, after touring with a theatre company based in Boston called BOSTON CHAMBER THEATRE, she started her own company that performed poetry as text for performance. She worked with six actors, directing and producing evenings of theatre and movement that transformed poetry into performance. She lived in Los Angeles from 1991 - 1995, where she belonged to a theatre company focused on new writers called Theatre of N.O.T.E. (new one-act theatre ensemble). Theatre of N.O.T.E. produced three of her plays. While in LA, she studied with playwrights John Steppling and Irene Fornes. In 1996, Coleman moved to New York and began her work as a solo performer. She has written and performed six monologues at Dixon Place in New York City. Coleman has been a writing fellow at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 1995, '97, '98, ’03, ’04 and ‘05. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as SOUTHERN POETRY REVIEW, THE LOUISVILLE REVIEW, and THE ASHEVILLE REVIEW. Coleman recently returned to Los Angeles where she teaches screenwriting at USC in the professional writing program. Her short play, THE DIAGNOSIS, is part of an evening of short plays produced by Padua Playwrights Productions.
 

Education
B.A. Fine Arts, Emerson College, 1982
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Storytelling and Performance, New York Writers Workshop, 01/01/2000-01/01/2006  
Advisor, Equinoxe - Germany, France, 01/01/2004-01/01/2005  
Lecturer, Emma Willard School, 01/01/1996-01/01/2001  
Lecturer, Emerson College, 01/01/1988-01/01/1990  
Lecturer, Lehman College,  
 

Publications

Other
Hough, C. A. (2008). Glancing at the War.
 

Honors and Awards
Karlovy Vary Film Festival Jury member, 2006-  
Screenwriter’s Expo writing award, 2006-  
Rotary Scholarship, 1984-  
Tokyo Int'l Digital Film Festival jury member, 2007  
 
 
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