MAL KARMAN won a National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy) Award, the Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward Scott Newman Award and a Silver Medal at the New York International Film Festival for the script of Wasted: A True Story, a prime-time TV special on drug abuse that received a laudatory editorial from the Washington Post. Worked numerous times as a script doctor for Oscar-winning producer Saul Zaentz (including Three Warriors At Play in the Fields of the Lord and D.O.A.), penned the sequel to the animated Lord of the Rings for Zaentz and director Ralph Bakshi, and co-wrote “Shooting Stars” in Paris with Oscar-winning screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere. Wrote and directed dramatic comedy, The Bones of Simon Bottle, which won Marin Arts Council playwriting grant. Wrote political thriller The Foxbat Spiral (now in its second printing), the nonfiction The Poison River and is one of the featured writers in the recently released anthology Encounters With the Middle East. Worked for directors Francis Ford Coppola and Hector Babenco, and political analyst-author Bill Moyers. Spent 4 weeks in Iran shooting documentary; directed and edited documentary, Volleyball Nation and edited documentary Heaven in the Headlands for the Yosemite National Institutes. Member of the Writers Guild of America, the Media Workers Guild of Northern California and the Authors Guild.