Lee Sheldon (writer) - Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Dream Focus (talk | contribs) at 19:07, 7 February 2020 (→Career). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 19:07, 7 February 2020 by Dream Focus (talk | contribs) (→Career)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

An editor has nominated this article for deletion.
You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion, which will decide whether or not to retain it.Feel free to improve the article, but do not remove this notice before the discussion is closed. For more information, see the guide to deletion.
Find sources: "Lee Sheldon" writer – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR%5B%5BWikipedia%3AArticles+for+deletion%2FLee+Sheldon+%28writer%29%5D%5DAFD

This biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately.
Find sources: "Lee Sheldon" writer – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Lee Sheldon is an American game writer and designer, book author, television producer and scriptwriter best known for creating game teaching projects.

Education

Sheldon has a bachelor of fine arts degree in stage directing from Boston University, and an MFA in film direction from California Institute of the Arts. During his time as a student at CalArts, he was mentored under Alexander Mackendrick. In addition, he had two pairs of mentors while he was a writer and producer in television — Ron Austin and Jim Buchanan, as well as William Link and Richard Levinson.

Career

He is the author of a mystery novel, Impossible Bliss, and two non-fiction books, The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game, released in 2009 by CRC Press and Character Development and Storytelling for Games released in its second edition in 2013 by Course Technology.

Sheldon was lead writer on 2014's Harmonix game Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, lead writer on Zynga's Facebook game, Adventure World, and lead writer on Star Trek: Infinite Space from Gameforge; as well as writer/designer of the Agatha Christie video game series published by The Adventure Company (And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express and Evil Under the Sun).

In 1995, Sheldon supplied the voice of Monk 13 in the video game Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu in which he also wrote the scripts for the gameplay and casting and directing the voice actors.

His television credits as a scriptwriter include Charlie's Angels, Quincy, M.E., Cagney & Lacey, The Edge of Night (Head Writer), Snoops, Another World, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was nominated for two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and a Writers Guild of America award.

He previously taught as an associate professor in the communication and media department and as co-director of the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

He is a professor of practice in game writing in the Interactive Media & Game Development Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

References

^ Pasquine, Frank (May 11, 2016). "Lee Sheldon on Writing for Games". New York Film Academy. Retrieved Feb 5, 2020.
www.publishersweekly.com https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-595-19481-0. Retrieved 2020-02-07. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Tidu, Maurizio. "Lee Sheldon firma per The Adventure Company ∂ Sherlock Magazine". Sherlock Magazine. Retrieved Feb 5, 2020.
"clsheldon". Worcester Polytechnic Institute via WPI.edu. Retrieved Feb 5, 2020.

External links

Published articles

Op-Ed: Writing off Game Writers

This biographical article related to television is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: