Robert Foshko was for over twenty years a professional writer, script editor, director, and producer for theatrical motion pictures and television. His production staff and screen credits in include MCA-Universal, British-Lion/Columbia, MGM-TV, Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems, and over a hundred dramatic and documentary episodes for network TV series and specials. He has received honors from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, multiple CINE Golden Eagle awards, and the International Festivals of New York and Chicago, among others.

Stephen Harrigan has written movies and miniseries for HBO (The Last of His Tribe), TNT (King of Texas), ABC (Cleopatra), Lifetime, Disney, USA, and CBS (Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder). He is also author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. (see Fiction faculty)

Stuart Kelban has written nearly a dozen feature-length screenplays and worked with Warner Brothers, Sony Studios, Twentieth-Century Fox and Mandalay Pictures developing material for Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, Samuel Jackson, and Goldie Hawn, as well as directors John Woo and Dean Perisot.

Richard Lewis has worked as an editor, producer, director, and/or writer for National Geographic, A&E, PBS, Sierra Club Productions, and Devillier-Donegan Enterprises. His last production, Chimp Rescue, premiered on National Geographic Explorer and won a Genesis Award for Best Cable Documentary.

Charles Ramirez-Berg is the author of Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion and Resistance and Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983. In addition, he has published many scholarly articles on Latinos in U.S. films and on Mexican cinema. He writes screenplays, has published fiction, poetry, and co-authored a children's book, The Gift of the Poinsettia with Chicana poet Pat Mora.

Alex Smith is a 1996 graduate of the MFA program in Writing of the Michener Center at U.T., where he wrote both fiction and screenplays. His fiction has been recognized with several awards, including a Nimrod award and a Playboy College Fiction Prize. He and his twin brother Andrew wrote and directed their feature debut, The Slaughter Rule, starring Ryan Gosling and David Morse, which premiered at Sundance in 2002. As a writing team, they have also written scripts for Disney, Columbia studios, HBO/Warner Brothers and various other producers.