John Bernstein

Director, Screenwriting Program
Associate Professor of Film

BA, University of Michigan
PhD, The University of Texas, Austin

Professor Bernstein has taught screenwriting, playwriting, and film theory at Duke University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Copenhagen, and has conducted professional film seminars at the Munich Film School and the National Film School of Denmark. He has also worked as director of development, film consultant, story editor, and dramaturge for major film companies and theaters. A number of his plays have won national prizes and been staged in a variety of theaters worldwide. His film A Scent of Paradise has won a number of international prizes. He has also written for German television and is the author of two books of poems. Professor Bernstein’s film Turn Right by the Yellow Dog, starring Peter Gantzler (Italian for Beginners), premiered in September 2003.