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CurrentSTORY SEMINARTaught by famed drama practitioner Kenneth Rowe, McKee represents a long line of story philosophers stretching back from William Archer, Gustav Freytag and Ferdinand Brunetiere to Aristotle. Delivered on an international circuit in the grand tradition of dramatic lectures as practiced by Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain, McKee’s STORY SEMINARS are intense immersive experiences designed to transport two and a half thousand years of story wisdom into its modern forms. This Fulbright Scholar has won the BAFTA Award and the Cine Eagle as well as the International Moving Image Book Award. His dictum Write the Truth has become the password in the global story industry for passion, originality as well as mastery of the craft.McKee’s former STORY SEMINAR students include • over 60 Academy Award Winners• 250 Academy Award Nominees• 170 Emmy Award Winners• 500+ Emmy Award Nominees• 30 WGA (Writers Guild of America) Award Winners• 180+ WGA Award Nominees• 26 DGA (Directors Guild of America) Award Winners• 52+ DGA Award Nominees.• A winner and nominee of BAFTA for his popular Channel Four series REEL SECRETS• McKee wrote and hosted 12 episodes of BBC’s FILMWORKS series.• He was profiled 60 Minutes for CBS news, New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Independent.Since 1984, more than 100,000 students have taken McKee’s courses around the world.
