Stephen Molton
LGNA Guild Member
Stephen Molton is an award-winning author, filmmaker, artist, educator, and former television executive with thirty-eight years of experience in the creative arts. Harper Collins published his first novel, Brave Talk in 1987. The most recent book, Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros and the Politics of Murder (co-authored with Gus Russo) was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury USA, which nominated it for the Pulitzer Prize. The book was also awarded the New York Book Festival Prize for History in 2009.
Molton has also created animated short films for Sesame Street, produced by Paul Newman and the Scott Newman Foundation. Following that, he worked as a creative executive for HBO, MTV Networks, and Showtime Networks where he oversaw all aspects of development and production for many television films, including Elvis Meets Nixon; Noriega: God’s Favorite; Tricks; Charms for the Easy Life; Harlan County War; In the Company of Spies and Hiroshima. As a screenwriter, Molton has written several mini-series, television movies, and feature films for Showtime, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, and Viacom Networks, among others. He has also produced documentary features, including Showtime’s L.A. Homefront: The Fires Within, and Generation 9/11, directed by Nigel Noble. Since 2007, he has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of screenwriting at Columbia University; a full-time professor in the TV Writers Studio MFA program at Long Island University Brooklyn, and has also taught at NYU’s Tisch School; at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton; at the Mediterranean Film Institute; and at La Femis, the French national film school in Paris. Since 2015, he has also served as a writer mentor at New York City’s prestigious Jacob Krueger Studio. Molton’s latest screen adaptation was The Drowning, based on Pat Barker’s novel, Border Crossing, which is currently running on Netflix. Stephen holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and has done postgraduate work at MIT and at the Boston Architectural Center.
Molton has also created animated short films for Sesame Street, produced by Paul Newman and the Scott Newman Foundation. Following that, he worked as a creative executive for HBO, MTV Networks, and Showtime Networks where he oversaw all aspects of development and production for many television films, including Elvis Meets Nixon; Noriega: God’s Favorite; Tricks; Charms for the Easy Life; Harlan County War; In the Company of Spies and Hiroshima. As a screenwriter, Molton has written several mini-series, television movies, and feature films for Showtime, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, and Viacom Networks, among others. He has also produced documentary features, including Showtime’s L.A. Homefront: The Fires Within, and Generation 9/11, directed by Nigel Noble. Since 2007, he has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of screenwriting at Columbia University; a full-time professor in the TV Writers Studio MFA program at Long Island University Brooklyn, and has also taught at NYU’s Tisch School; at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton; at the Mediterranean Film Institute; and at La Femis, the French national film school in Paris. Since 2015, he has also served as a writer mentor at New York City’s prestigious Jacob Krueger Studio. Molton’s latest screen adaptation was The Drowning, based on Pat Barker’s novel, Border Crossing, which is currently running on Netflix. Stephen holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and has done postgraduate work at MIT and at the Boston Architectural Center.