Biography
Lynn Grant Beck was born in Montclair, New Jersey. She was hired to write 2 episodes of season 2 on "Cypher" for Roku in the spring of 2023. She has two television series in the market, "The House that Jackie Built" and "French Vanilla & Felonies." Her play, "All American," was nominated for Best Drama and won the Hollywood Producers Encore Award at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her MOW, "My Mom Robs Banks," aired on Lifetime in 2016, and "12 Gifts of Christmas" aired on Hallmark in 2015. She was also hired by Tim Johnson Productions to write two other MOWs, "Trapped" and "Cult of Lies." In 2021 she earned her MFA in Screenwriting with a Minor in Playwriting at UC Riverside. She has taught screenwriting in the MFA Screenwriting Program at Pepperdine, Spalding University, the University of Auckland and Santa Monica College. She currently teaches screenwriting at Script University.
Lynn's sci-fi series, "Fuzion," was in development at Amasia Entertainment. She was hired to write the pilot, "Hashers," by Google Exec Jim Kolotouros. She also wrote a tween comedy pilot, "Twindroids." Her screenplay, "Dead Wrong," won an award in the WIF/MORE Screenplay contest and was optioned by the director, John Rhode. Her half hour pilot," Life in 2D," earned her a fellowship at the Writers Boot Camp. She was hired to write the sci-fi web series, "The Annex," by director Hank Isaac and was hired to co-write the feature comedy "Hollywood Hit," for Miracle Mile Entertainment. Her other feature scripts include an action/disaster screenplay, "BlackOut," two comedies, "James Borkowsky 000" and "Stable Mate," two romantic comedies, "The Death of Art" and "Trouble," 2 animated feature screenplays, "Sandra Claus" and "The TreasureD Cat," two MOW's, "Spring Break Nightmare" and "Quiet Night," and a sci-fi adventure story, "Jonny Was."
Before becoming a full-time screenwriter, Lynn was a VP of Production at Kopelson Entertainment and a Creative Executive at Interscope Communications, where she traveled to Australia to shoot the film "Pitch Black" with then unknown Vin Diesel. She also worked as an assistant in the television movie department of Kushner-Locke. Lynn arrived in Los Angeles from New York where she was a playwright. She founded the independent theater company, The Chelsea Players, where she wrote and produced numerous Off-off Broadway plays, including "Restaurant A," "Magic Soup," "Platform 8," "The Game" and "The Case of the Stolen Identity." After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with an MA in Russian Studies she traveled to Russia where she worked as an assistant director at the Nikitsky Vorot Theater. She spent six months working in Moscow and five months traveling across the former Soviet Union on the heels of the revolution. She wrote a non-fiction account of that year entitled "Adventure in the Soviet Union." Other works include an anthology of poetry and numerous manuscripts for children's books. Her love for writing and the arts in general was first fostered at her time spent at Choate Rosemary Hall. She is married with four children and lives in Ashton, Idaho.
