APRIL’S SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: JAMES DUFF
Executive Producer/Creator/Writer - The Closer

James Duff’s success as the Executive Producer, Creator and Writer of the critically acclaimed hit, The Closer is not a one-time achievement. James is a highly regarded, flourishing hyphenate as the term is used in Hollywood, whose accomplishments encompass television, film and stage.

He wrote and produced the popular and critically acclaimed series, Popular, Felicity, Wolf Lake and The Agency. Additionally, he created and produced the series The D.A. with Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin and wrote the television films, Without a Kiss Goodbye, Betrayed: The Story of Three Women and Doing Time on Maple Drive, for which he garnered an Emmy nomination.

In addition to writing an episode of Enterprise, Duff has also written four pilots: Long Island Fever, Texas Graces, 911 Fifth Avenue and The Travel Agency.

James Duff began his professional writing career with the Broadway drama Home Front, which was later retitled The War at Home, before having a successful worldwide run in London, Stockholm, Athens, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Brussels, Amsterdam and Sydney. The play was then made into a feature film starring Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Kimberly Williams and Carla Gugino. Duff's play, A Quarrel of Sparrows, went from regional theater productions to off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre and won a Dramalogue Award during its run in Los Angeles.