Stephen Hauser

Biography

Stephen has been working in Hollywood for over 20 years. He moved from Los Angeles to Nashville four years ago to help produce the TV show “NASHVILLE” for ABC, CMT and Hulu. During his three-season stint on the show, Stephen began teaching Screenwriting Fundamentals at Belmont and now teaches Screenwriting and Production full time.

After growing up in St. Louis and graduating from Wheaton College outside Chicago, Stephen began his career in Hollywood reading scripts for Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter Barry Levinson. He assisted Mr. Levinson on the NBC show “Homicide: Life on The Street” and the Warner Brothers films, DISCLOSURE (starring Michael Douglas) and SLEEPERS (starring Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, and Kevin Bacon).

During this time, Stephen adapted his first screenplay based on the Michael Crichton novel, SPHERE, for Warner Brothers, directed by Mr. Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson.

Over the last 15 years, Stephen has written and sold original screenplays and been hired to adapt books and doctor scripts on projects for Miramax, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, the Weinstein Company, Paramount Pictures, and financiers in the independent film world. He’s represented by the Paradigm Agency in L.A. and Writ-Large Management.

Stephen’s passion lies in helping students develop their creative process and hone their unique voice for the marketplace.