Robyn O Paris, MFA

Robyn Paris is an award-winning writer/director of narrative content, focusing on new media, feature films, virtual reality and television. Her specialties are comedy writing and directing, web series creation, women directors and women in comedy, cult film and the allure of B-movies and using Virtual Reality to both educate and entertain. She launched a 10-episode series in partnership with Funny or Die that accumulated millions of views. She won the Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Award for her feature about a family raising a Schizophrenic son. Recently, Robyn penned the Virtual Reality narratives for VC-funded healthcare start-up BehaVR.

Robyn holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA and a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. In addition to screening at Oscar-qualifying film festivals around the world (Raindance, HollyShorts, HBO's ITVFest), Robyn's work has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, PopSugar, Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly XM Radio, NPR, The Hollywood Reporter, the Sydney Morning Herald, Creative Screenwriting Magazine, Tubefliter, SheKnows and many others. She's guest lectured at USC and Hollins University and served on digital media panels at the Raindance, Sunscreen and Sundance Film Festivals.

Robyn's first job in Hollywood was appearing in the cult film, The Room. She was portrayed by June Diane Raphael in the Oscar-nominated film, The Disaster Artist.

Sub-specialities:
Digital and new media
Narrative screenwriting and filmmaking - short form and long form
Female directors, female filmmakers
Web series creation, development and promotion
Women in comedy
Comedy filmmaking
Running successful crowdfunding campaigns
Cult films and the allure of B-movies
Writing and filming narrative virtual reality
Virtual reality storytelling for education and entertainment
Cult movie The Room by Tommy Wiseau