Anthony A. Dodd
- Writer
- Casting Director
- Costume Designer
Anthony Dodd's first short story in his middle-school years so pleased
his knockout of an English teacher that he decided to keep writing. Who
knew a cheese-ball sci-fi story could woo attractive women? A short
story written the next year placed placed Anthony in the famed Cape Cod
Writers Conference, the same year he started writing plays.
In his senior year of high school, his one act play Efil's Life won his high school its first trip to the state festival of the Boston Globe Drama festival -- where it held its own against works by playwrights Neil Simon, Harold Pinter, and William Shakespeare.
In college Mr. Dodd wrote a three act play inspired by/named after the Elton John classic "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues". One of the most impressive and clairvoyant aspects of this piece was that it opened the week said song entered the Top 40 for the first time.
Later in college Anthony placed a female perspective short story second in the English Department's annual fiction contest. Under the pseudonym 'Joan Elton'. It was a story about what jerks men can sometimes be -- and the women who love them anyway. Ah... l'amour.
Rejecting cultural patriarchy became a theme in Mr. Dodd's follow up decades of screenwriting. He completed over twelve feature specs that put the Beatles line 'All You Need Is Love' above all else. Most of these specs did well on the screenplay contest circuit, quarterfinaling or better in all quality contests, including the Austin and the Nicholl.
One of Mr. Dodd's more decorated screenplays was a silent film entitled The Song And The Wound. Everyone in Hollywood said a silent movie would never work. About ten years later the silent film The Artist got made and won the Oscar for Picture Of The Year.
That was the precise moment Mr. Dodd stopped talking to Hollywood altogether and started Screenplayhouse LLC, an indie production company dedicated to dispensing with cultural patriarchy and championing love... which is all you need.
In his senior year of high school, his one act play Efil's Life won his high school its first trip to the state festival of the Boston Globe Drama festival -- where it held its own against works by playwrights Neil Simon, Harold Pinter, and William Shakespeare.
In college Mr. Dodd wrote a three act play inspired by/named after the Elton John classic "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues". One of the most impressive and clairvoyant aspects of this piece was that it opened the week said song entered the Top 40 for the first time.
Later in college Anthony placed a female perspective short story second in the English Department's annual fiction contest. Under the pseudonym 'Joan Elton'. It was a story about what jerks men can sometimes be -- and the women who love them anyway. Ah... l'amour.
Rejecting cultural patriarchy became a theme in Mr. Dodd's follow up decades of screenwriting. He completed over twelve feature specs that put the Beatles line 'All You Need Is Love' above all else. Most of these specs did well on the screenplay contest circuit, quarterfinaling or better in all quality contests, including the Austin and the Nicholl.
One of Mr. Dodd's more decorated screenplays was a silent film entitled The Song And The Wound. Everyone in Hollywood said a silent movie would never work. About ten years later the silent film The Artist got made and won the Oscar for Picture Of The Year.
That was the precise moment Mr. Dodd stopped talking to Hollywood altogether and started Screenplayhouse LLC, an indie production company dedicated to dispensing with cultural patriarchy and championing love... which is all you need.