Film & Media

George Larkin is a graduate of Yale University and also has a Masters of Shakespearean Studies from the University of Birmingham, England. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Film & Media Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. He was the head of development and post production supervisor for producer Dean Silvers on Spanking the Monkey, Flirting With Disaster, Manny & Lo, The Last Good Time, and Wigstock: the Movie. The films premiered at the Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, and Avignon Film Festivals and were distributed by Miramax, New Line, Sony Classics, and Samuel Goldwyn. He helped develop a Sony reality show that aired in over 20 countries around the world and sold another reality show to Endemol, makers of Deal or No Deal and Big Brother. He's recently directed and produced a documentary called Speaking of Baghdad, taken from his six years of conversations with Iraqi writers in Baghdad. The film stars actors from Entourage, Prison Break, Ugly Betty, Dexter, The Cosby Show, and Angel. He recently mixed the film at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch. His plays have won or been nominated for fourteen awards (including nine LA Weekly Awards and three Backstage garlands) and been produced at the Lark, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Love Creek, Nantucket Theatre, Edge Fest, Theatricum Botanicum, the Met Theatre, Sacred Fools, EST, the Unknown Theatre, the Hudson Theatre, Actors Theatre of Newburyport, UCSD, University of California-Berkeley, and Yale University.