Patrick A. Horton

Patrick A. Horton has been best known in the media industry from 1999 on most prominently as The Story Coach under the banner of thestorycoach.com. In addition to his own work as actor, writer, producer, speaker, and consultant, he consistently provided some of the media industry's most radically innovative and intuitively empowering presentations, workshops, and seminars serving the industry's full spectrum of professionals, studios, organizations, and guilds. Many of these were and continue to be put on in alliance with his long time collaborative partners, Write Brothers, Inc., makers of Movie Magic Screenwriter. Similarly, he provided equally innovative and radically empowering private consultations for script and story development for actors, writers, directors and producers, as well as providing writing for hire. In 2008, he shifted focus back to his own writing and producing under the banner of Wind & Thunder Productions which was founded a decade earlier when he was asked by HBO original programming to develop a proposal for a massive three part special event series exploring and seeking to impact emerging and rapidly changing trends in the media industry. Wind and Thunder has since served as the single integrative banner for developing feature films, documentaries, television and new media, and for initiating and promoting social and media advocacy that seeks to blend media and social entrepreneurship at multiple levels and in many arenas. As 2009 began in earnest, he stepped up the development of diverse media along with putting forward plans and alliances for endeavors to further empower colleagues and the industry itself, while showing the way to create artistically and commercially viable media. Prior to 1998, he had maintained dual lives and careers in the very different worlds of health and social services and in the media industry he loved - both of which fit and were fueled by his eclectic training and personal nature as a cultural anthropologist and student/change agent in the world. With the almost instant acquisition of representation in the 80's and a decade of paid feature writing projects and nearly launched television pilots or series behind him, he took a year off to focus on writing. A year later was living in LA, negotiating projects with HBO and Paramount, literally backing into acting, and launching what would turn out to be ground breaking approaches to story and story development for the entire spectrum of collaborative professionals.