Stephen Molton

Stephen Molton is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter, and former cable television executive. His first screenplays were for animated shorts, "JoJo's Blues" and "Mahatma Gander & the Ganges Gang," written for PBS's Children's Television Workshop and produced by Paul Newman. His first novel, Brave Talk, was published by Harper & Row in 1987 and was critically well-received. While working on his next novel, he served as a creative executive at HBO, MTV Networks, and Showtime Networks, and in 1994 he co-directed and produced "L.A. Homefront; The Fires Within," a Showtime documentary about the 1992 Los Angeles riots which aired as part of cable television's nationwide "Voices Against Violence" initiative. Since then, he has written two tele-features for Showtime, "SmarTalk" and "The Accident," and two mini-series, "Live By the Sword" and"Weaveworld," adaptations of books (by Gus Russo and Clive Barker, respectively). In 1998, he wrote "Deep Blue" (aka "Stealth") for New Line Cinema, based on his first novel. Hs script, "The Road to East Jesus" was selected for the Dreamago international screenwriters' workshop in Sierre, Switzerland. With his wife, Pamela Galvin, he wrote "Heaven Forbid," a post-9/11 play for The Victory Project at Columbia University. His book, "Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros and the Politics of Murder" (co-authored with Gus Russo) won the New York Book Festival prize for history in 2009, and the publisher, Bloomsbury USA, nominated the book for the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, he wrote the screenplay and was an executive producer for "Border Crossing," a film by Bette Gordon, produced by Electric Entertainment. Two new non-fiction books are pending publication. Molton is an adjunct assistant professor of screen-writing at Columbia University and an instructor at the Jacob Krueger Studio in New York. He has taught at the Tisch School at New York University, at the TV Writers Studio at Long Island University Brooklyn, and at the Mediterranean Film Institute. His work as writer, filmmaker, and artist are ongoing. He divides his home-life between Pioneertown, California and New York City, with his wife and frequent collaborator, artist/activist Pamela Galvin.