WHY IS IRV BAUER'S APPROACH DIFFERENT? Every screenwriting tome out there deals with idea and story structure right from the start. Irv Bauer's approach identifies all the pieces of the puzzle. He first gives you exercises to familiarize yourself with and to practice the elements of the craft of screenwriting. He then goes on to ask, "what is an idea?" "What is a story?" "What is story structure?" Taking it out of theory, using a process with exercises you do in your own time, he gives you the "how to" with the logic and specificity germane to visual writing so you can transpose your ideas to the page. In short... how you write the screenplay.

IRV BAUER, has taught Screenwriting at the New York University’s Film School, at Sarah Lawrence College, and The Australian National Film School as well as in Master Classes at Cornell and at many other prominent venues. At the University of Bridgeport and The Minneapolis Playwright’s Lab he taught Playwriting as well as at the New Dramatist's in New York. At the University of Washington he taught Adaptation at the graduate level. In addition, Irv has taught workshops and seminars on screenwriting all over the world including special seminars for film and media communities in London, Paris, Sydney and New York and Los Angeles. His enormously popular annual two-week Summer Screenwriting Intensive in New York in July and Spoleto, Italy in August are attended by students from all over the world.

Irv Bauer is the author of several screenplays among which are, The Elephant is Well, Captain of Paradise, Hunt and High Octane, as well as many commissioned rewrites for both Film and TV. On the animated series, Courage The Cowardly Dog for Cartoon Network, Irv was Senior Story Consultant as well as writer, for all four seasons. He is on a regular basis called upon to consult on screenplays at various stages of production both in the United States and in other parts of the world. His many plays include, A Dream Out of Time produced at the Promenade Theatre in New York, A Fine and Private Place at The Showboat Theatre in Seattle, the book of the Broadway bound musical version of the film An American In Paris and the Broadway musical Rollin’ on the TOBA.

Irv Bauer's schedule of ongoing private classes, professional tutorials and one-on-one basic level tutorials have been fully enrolled for the last fifteen years.