Karol Ruth Silverstein is a writer, living in Los Angeles and praying for no earthquakes. Originally from Philadelphia, she migrated west in 1990 to fulfill a Producing Fellowship at AFI. She worked in production for a few years after that, and then devoted herself to writing full-time in 1995. She has since sold several ultra-low budget teleplays to cable TV, which have all been produced and televised.

Karol’s spec feature scripts Rachel’s Season and You’re My Best Friend have placed in many screenwriting competitions. The latter script was accepted in the prestigious Film Independent Screenwriters Lab and took Third Place in the One-in-Ten Screenplay Contest. Karol is a WGA member (through the Indie Caucus) and is currently active on the Writers With Disabilities Committee. She was also a member of The Foundry Theater Works from 2001 – 2004, for which she wrote several shorts pieces and co-produced a one-act festival. Most recently, a scene from Karol’s spec romantic comedy script, Race to Romance, was selected for the CBS Diversity Showcase put on by the WGA’s Committee of Women Writers. The script also was a semifinalist in the Big Bear Lake Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.

Karol takes pride in being a very diversified writer. She has had several op-ed pieces published in The Philadelphia Daily News, a children’s story published in Rainbow Rumpus (an on-line magazine for children in GLBT families), and a poem of hers recently appeared in the literary journal, Elysian Fields Quarterly. She has also worked as a freelance script reader since 1992. Her roster of current and past clients includes Film Independent, Beacon Pictures and CWM Films.

Karol is currently working on a variety projects, including a young adult novel, Cursed, which recently won “Most Promising Manuscript” at the SCBWI-Ventura/Santa Barbara County Writers’ Day Contest.