James Napoli’s MFA is from the London Film School. He is a professional story analyst, providing script evaluations to agents and producers in the film industry for more than fifteen years. He has written and directed award-winning short films, optioned several of his feature screenplays and is currently pitching a TV pilot script with an independent producer in Los Angeles. James created hundreds of original short plays in every genre as Head Writer for the XM/Sirius Live Radio Theater Program New Frequency. He is the author of the humor best-seller The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm, the co-creator of the cinema-themed comedy podcast Movies Not Movies, and has just completed a private eye novella, Plea from a Dead Silhouette.

James teaches in the MFA in Professional Screenwriting Program at National University, and at Columbia College, Hollywood, where his subjects include Screenwriting, Script Analysis, Script Coverage and Film History.