Rodger Cove
Vancouver Film School
Rodger began writing in radio where he worked for seven years as a copywriter. Since then he has published short fiction and has had radio and stage plays professionally produced. As a screenwriter, he has written eight feature length scripts and is a two time Praxis Fellow; he has also been a semi-finalist in the prestigious Chesterfield and Nicholl screenwriting competitions.
In 2008, he wrote, co-produced and acted in Hair of the Sasquatch, a feature length mockumentary which had its world premiere at the Calgary International Film Festival. Related work experience includes stints as a dramaturge, script reader, analyst, and story editor for Theatre Terrific, CBC Western Drama Development, British Columbia Film, Movie Central, and the Praxis Centre for Screenwriting. He has taught film techniques and screenwriting at The Trebas Institute, Matsqui Medium Security Prison, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and is now the senior instructor in the writing department at the Vancouver Film School.
He has a B.A. in English from Simon Fraser University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
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