SCREENWRITER SPOTLIGHT #6: Greta Heinemann

Greta Heinemann grew up at the Bavarian-Austrian border (where they shot The Sound of Music) and, for the lack of parents telling her otherwise, raised herself watching an abundance of German-dubbed US TV shows by day, and action movies by night. At the age of fourteen, it was the lethal concoction of Baywatch, Melrose Place and The Terminator that inspired Greta to pursue a career as a Hollywood writer. Greta has since learned how to speak English and immigrated to the US in 2009. In 2013, Greta won the UCLA writing competition with two different scripts at the same time and also wrote and directed a pilot episode to a new original series. In 2014 she was chosen as one of the CBS Mentoring Program ...

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