Jeremy Pikser is an American screenwriter. Pikser is best known forBulworth (co-written withWarren Beatty), which was nominated for Academy, Golden Globe and WGA Awards for Best Screenplay and which won the Los Angeles Film Critics' Best Screenplay award for 1998.
Pikser got his start working as a "special consultant" and uncredited writer on the filmReds (a screenplay also co-written by Beatty nominated for an Academy Award). He wroteThe Lemon Sisters andWar, Inc. (co-written withMark Leyner andJohn Cusack), which premiered at the 2008Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. He was "supervising writer" forPink Subaru, which opened at the Turin Film Festival in 2009.
Pikser teaches screenwriting at New York University in the Rita and Burton Goldberg department of dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts and at Johns Hopkins University in the Film and Media program at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is the creative director of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Screenwriting Lab. Pikser is a regular advisor at the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab.[1] He is also an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post[2] and he has commented onthe writer's strike and other subjects onThe Guardian website Comment Is Free.[3]
At Oberlin College, he was a leading opponent of the Vietnam War, and he was one of the authors and organizers of theNot in Our Name Statement of Conscience, opposing the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
In 2019, as vice president ofWGA-E, Pikser oversaw the negotiating committee for the WGA-Agency Agreement, and he joined otherWGA members in firing his agents as part of the guild's stand against theAssociation of Talent Agents after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement on a new Code of Conduct that addressed the practice of packaging.[4]
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