Enjoy three one-hour individual consults with Lisa Doctor, writing coach for memoirists and novelists.
Lisa is a writing coach who for the past 43 years has been working with writers, and currently leads multiple in-demand weekly writing workshops. Workshop writers stay with her for years, completing multiple book projects encouraged and inspired by her enthusiastic, focused coaching. Lisa Lieberman Doctor has been working with screenwriters, novelists and memoirists for decades. Her first Industry position was story editor for Sylvester Stallone shortly after the release of Rocky, which led to becoming a Creative Executive at Universal Pictures overseeing the development and production of feature films.
During her tenure at her next job—Vice President at Kings Road Productions at Warners Brothers—she was profiled in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar cover story as one of six enterprising young Hollywood executives. Subsequent positions include Vice President posts at Nelvana Entertainment and ITC Entertainment, which led to her position of Head of Production and Development at Jerry Weintraub Entertainment at Warner Brothers. Her last executive job was Vice President of Robin Williams’ company, Blue Wolf Productions at Tristar Pictures, where she oversaw production of Mrs. Doubtfire.
Lisa refocused and became a staff writer on General Hospital whose writing team was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award and Writers Guild Award, and moved on to Port Charles. Lisa has taught in the UCLA Extension Writers Program, Television Writers Fund for the Future, the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Cal State University Northridge, Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, and internationally for writing workshops at universities in India, Italy, Portugal, and multiple locations in Spain. Her novel, The Deflowering of Rhona Lipshitz, was optioned as a motion picture by producer Raffaella De Laurentiis. Her recent book, Accidental Poetry: Improve Your English Through Creative Writing, which debuted as an Amazon Best Seller, is often used as a textbook for new speakers of English as well as a tool for writers who are developing their characters.
Lisa Doctor lives in Malibu, California with her husband, clinical psychologist and author Ron Doctor.