Our Teachers
The Muse's instructors are all working writers and published authors who have taught courses at colleges, universities, and other community organizations. Read our teachers’ biographies and see what classes they are currently teaching.
Diane Fine
Diane Fine has been a professional screenwriter and "script doctor" in Hollywood for over 20 years. Her credits include Storm starring Martin Sheen and Luke Perry, Firetrapstarring Dean Cain, Lori Petty and Mel Harris, Art Heist starring Ellen Pompeo and Billy Baldwin, and Purgatory Flats starring Brian Austin Green, Nick Turturro and Gregg Henry. The BET movie-of-the-week she co-wrote, Fire & Ice, starring Kadeem Hardison and Lark Voorhies, was one of the highest-rated MOW's in BET's history and was nominated for an NAACP Image award. A graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, she has taught screenwriting, creative writing and elements of storytelling to children, teens and adults in Los Angeles. After recently relocating to Norfolk, she currently teaches Screenwriting as well as Film Production at Old Dominion University.
Current Classes Taught
- Screenwriting 1: The Fundamentals of Script & Story
- (Fall 2024)
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script on Its Feet
- (Fall 2024)
- Screenwriting 3: Refining & Pitching Your Script
- (Fall 2024)
- The Screenwriting Workshop
- (Fall 2024)
Previous Classes Taught
- 1-Day Creative Writing "Camp" for Adults (Sat. June 3)
- (Summer 2023)
- Screenwriting - ASAP
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script On Its Feet
- (Summer 2023)
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script on Its Feet
- (Summer 2024)
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script On Its Feet
- (Winter/Spring 2023)
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script on Its Feet
- (Winter/Spring 2024)
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script on Its Feet
- (Fall 2023)
- Screenwriting 2: Getting Your Script On Its Feet
- (Fall 2022)
- Screenwriting Workshop With The Muse
- Screenwriting Workshop With The Muse & ASAP
- (Winter/Spring 2021)
- Teen Writers: Writing the Short Film
- (Winter/Spring 2021)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Summer 2023)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Winter/Spring 2023)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Fall 2022)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Fall 2023)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Summer 2021)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Winter/Spring 2021)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Winter/Spring 2024)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
- (Summer 2020)
- The Advanced Screenwriting Workshop (Now Online)
- (Winter/Spring 2020)