"Prof. K.'s STORY DOCTOR/CONSULTING WORK
How it works...
1.) Email me what you're writing
2.) If I think I can help, I will annotate the margins of the pages as I read it, giving you instant feedback on most every page. It's as if I am there, coaching you on how to make your script or manuscript better, page by page.
3.) I will then email the script or the manuscript back to you with all the notes as well as a 10 page single-spaced general analysis/critique.
4.) Throughout the whole process, I will be available via email for questions and support.
Let me help you make your script or manuscript as good as it can be!
And DON'T send it out to the world until you have had it professionally reviewed and critiqued. You only get one chance, so make it as good as it can be.
Consultation fee: subject to the size of the job.
Please contact him for details and fees:
Richard Krevolin, rkrevolin@yahoo.com
"Richard Krevolin has a great eye for story. His insight and editing skills are unparalled."
Wanda Morris, Award winning author of "All Her Little Secrets," etc.
How it works...
1.) Email me what you're writing
2.) If I think I can help, I will annotate the margins of the pages as I read it, giving you instant feedback on most every page. It's as if I am there, coaching you on how to make your script or manuscript better, page by page.
3.) I will then email the script or the manuscript back to you with all the notes as well as a 10 page single-spaced general analysis/critique.
4.) Throughout the whole process, I will be available via email for questions and support.
Let me help you make your script or manuscript as good as it can be!
And DON'T send it out to the world until you have had it professionally reviewed and critiqued. You only get one chance, so make it as good as it can be.
Consultation fee: subject to the size of the job.
Please contact him for details and fees:
Richard Krevolin, rkrevolin@yahoo.com
"Richard Krevolin has a great eye for story. His insight and editing skills are unparalled."
Wanda Morris, Award winning author of "All Her Little Secrets," etc.
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My book on Business Narratives in being published by Career Press and it's called, THE HOOK, and the reviews and blurbs are already starting to come in.
"For a brand to make an emotional connection with its customers, story telling is essential. THE HOOK demystifies the process." -Terri Alpert, CEO Uno Alla Volta
“I wanted to begin this quote with a glib anecdote about how I took a relatively unknown brand of washing powder and within a few years, incorporating many of the marketing and storytelling techniques of Prof. Krevolin, I transformed that brand into the number one washing powder in the world with grosses in the billions! Instead, I will just say that his teachings contained in this book are an oasis from the same old reheated poppycock present in most marketing seminars and books. Instead of relying on lists of information, his book moves like a good story—in keeping with his emphasis on narrative and storytelling. Learn from him. Enjoy his lessons. Be inspired to tap into your natural brilliance and that of your colleagues!” — Simon Clift, former President, Marketing: Personal Care, Unilever
“Prof. K’s passion, expertise and charismatic style of crafting deeply resonating narratives have been pivotal in unlocking love for our brands, inspiring marketers to be storytellers and build true consumer empathy. His contribution is immeasurable in both immediacy of impact and shaping the future” — Shekar Khosla, Chief Marketing Officer, Kellogg Asia Pacific and Africa.
"For a brand to make an emotional connection with its customers, story telling is essential. THE HOOK demystifies the process." -Terri Alpert, CEO Uno Alla Volta
“I wanted to begin this quote with a glib anecdote about how I took a relatively unknown brand of washing powder and within a few years, incorporating many of the marketing and storytelling techniques of Prof. Krevolin, I transformed that brand into the number one washing powder in the world with grosses in the billions! Instead, I will just say that his teachings contained in this book are an oasis from the same old reheated poppycock present in most marketing seminars and books. Instead of relying on lists of information, his book moves like a good story—in keeping with his emphasis on narrative and storytelling. Learn from him. Enjoy his lessons. Be inspired to tap into your natural brilliance and that of your colleagues!” — Simon Clift, former President, Marketing: Personal Care, Unilever
“Prof. K’s passion, expertise and charismatic style of crafting deeply resonating narratives have been pivotal in unlocking love for our brands, inspiring marketers to be storytellers and build true consumer empathy. His contribution is immeasurable in both immediacy of impact and shaping the future” — Shekar Khosla, Chief Marketing Officer, Kellogg Asia Pacific and Africa.
The full length documentary film,
MAKING LIGHT IN TEREZIN
is available for sale or rental on Amazon.com
To get a copy of the companion book to the film which includes all the complete transcripts of every
interview done for the film,
please click the image to the right.
BE THE HERO OF YOUR STORY
uses stories and story structure
to help you think about the
narratives in your life and how
you can rewrite them.
uses stories and story structure
to help you think about the
narratives in your life and how
you can rewrite them.
Everything you wanted
to know about screenwriting,
you can learn from
"The Wizard of Oz."
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HOW TO ADAPT ANYTHING INTO A SCREENPLAY
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HOW TO ADAPT ANYTHING INTO A SCREENPLAY
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SCREENWRITING FROM
THE SOUL
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SCREENWRITING FROM THE SOUL
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PROF. K's MASTER CLASS SCENE WORKSHOP
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HOW TO ADAPT ANYTHING INTO A SCREENPLAY
Richard Krevolin's Screenplays
All scripts are finished and ready to shoot!
Rednecks & Bluebloods -- A family of Southerners have to pose as Rednecks to get the Yankees next door to move back up North! This is a romantic comedy that could be shot on an ultra-low budget.
Max Holt, Ultra-Mega-Super-Stunt-Boy! -- A lonely boy who dreams of becoming the world's greatest stunt artist like his missing father, has to use all his stunt skills to survive once the FBI shows up in his school looking for him.
The Wings of Love -- The magic and romance of Like Water for Chocolate with the intrigue of a political assassination. This is a beautiful love story filled with heartache and betrayal set in the time of Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico. The plot -- Leon Trotsky's adopted daughter, Sylvia falls in love with a man who might have been sent by Stalin to kill Trotsky. Can she stop him in time?
The Fall of '51 -- (Written with Steve Hetherington) Based on the true story of Homer Rice who invented the triple option. Rice turned a bunch of farm kids in Kentucky into state champs. We have all life rights.
Eldorado -- (Written with Morton Reed) Sean Mallory, mid - 40's, has just spent the last 7 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Now, he's been released and he's the only one who knows where a bag with millions of dollars in gold is hidden. Sean grabs the gold and disappears in the middle of nowhere, namely, Eldorado, New Mexico.
UNTOUCHABLE -- (Co-written and will be co-produced by Tom DeSanto who produced X-men and The Transformers.) Larry Hoover, the notorious gang leader of the Chicago’s Gangster Disciples, is planning to launch the largest crime syndicate this country has ever seen and a U.S. District Attorney named Ron Safer is the only thing that stands in his way.
Debergs & The Bees – (Written with Kevin Burke) A funny, romantic, rock and rollCyrano in High school. A shy teen, Peter Deberg, writes a song that ends up getting played on the PA system in school. Next thing Peter knows, the captain of the hockey team claims it as his own and now he needs Peter to help him carry on this charade to get the girl that they both love.
Sympathy For The Devil -- (Written with Morton Reed) Ian Graham is the prince of darkness of rock and roll. When he almost dies, he is in the intensive care unit next to a sweet young high school cheerleader. As Ian dies, the demon that possesses him leaves his body and enters the sweet young girl's body, awaking her from her coma, but also changing her into a much darker soul. This is a low budget HORROR film.
Hostile Takeover -- The human genome is discovered, altered and out of control - killing everyone and thing in its path.
Lawrence of Suburbia – A poignant love story about fathers and sons, ping-pong, politics and pickled herring. Based upon the hit Off-Broadway play, Boychik. This is a Sundance type prestige art picture that could be done on a low budget.
King Levine -- (Written with Joseph Bologna based upon a stageplay written by Rich Krevolin) A modern day Comedic King Lear. A frozen food millionaire has to divide up his kingdom among his three daughters…
Immortality -- (Written with Susie Saary) The Matrix meets Ghost. A beautiful, young nuerosurgeon is haunted by the soul of her lost love inhabiting a world he created in cyberspace.
Naked on the ‘Net -- (Written with Kevin Burke) The day before Jay Birde is going to ask the woman he loves to marry him, he finds pictures of her NAKED online.
Hoops – (Story by Bruce Taylor, Dale Rosenbloom and Rich Krevolin, written by Rich Krevolin) The Bad News Bears play basketball. A multi-cultural bunch of learning disabled junior high school kids give their new gambling-addicted b-ball coach a lesson he'll never forget.
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RICHARD KREVOLIN'S STAGEPLAYS
All plays are finished, full-length and ready to be produced!
Bitter Angels – (written with Joe Bologna) This new two-character play dramatizes the relationship of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. It was inspired by the historical fact that Frederick Douglass was the first African American to meet with and advise a sitting President of the United States. He and Lincoln met at the White House three times against the backdrop of The Civil War, yet little is known about what was spoken. This tabula rasa served as fertile ground for the playwrights’ imaginations, bringing to life an important American friendship.
Attachments – (written with Joe Bologna) Control, Alt, cute meet.
One millennial I.T. nerd plus one computer illiterate senior citizen, equals one unlikely attachment. Eileen Roth, a widow who needs to learn how to use a computer in order to communicate with her beloved grand-daughter = hires Stanley, a frustrated video game designer and as they fall in love, they change each other’s lives.
Break Room -- This play is meant to unsettle and challenge stereotypes—and the very moments and ways we get unsettled by words ideas and preconceptions—it is timely. It is the story of a transgender employee at a national big box bulk discount store and the use of the bathrooms at that store… And it’s a love story, too.
Mind the Gap (A Play about The So-Called “United” States of America) – This comedy with music takes place in a playwriting classroom and features 8 students who all have written a short play that comes to life onstage during the course of the class. Their assignment is simply to write a play with 8 of the greatest characters from US history and bring them to life onstage. It’s a funny, crazy, eye-opening look at America today.
The Gospel According To Jerry -- (written with Rabbi Irwin Kula)
Jerry Silver is a divorced rabbi in a Yankees baseball cap searching to fill a personal void. Nia Thompson is a reserved African American woman desperate to lose weight. Their lives intersect when Nia signs up for an Overeaters' Anonymous group that Jerry is leading to get more hours for his master's degree in social work. With just Nia in the group, Jerry must work hard to keep things flowing. A heartwarming relationship unfolds in this funny new play that takes a contemporary look at family, Jewish - African American connections, stereotypes, and spirituality. This play features only two actors, powerful gospel music and wonderful new version of classic Jewish songs.
Adult Ed-JEW-cation: A Comedy that Takes You Behind the Matzoh Curtain & Gives You Nachas --
An interactive comedy in the vein of Late Night Catechism, but Jewish. In this 90 minute comedy, Evelyn Schwartz, a Hebrew School Teacher and Eddie Shulman, a Reform Synagogue Cantor team-teach an Adult Education Class on the principles of Judaism. The play is structured so that the audience is treated as if there are members of the class and so, when they give a right answer, they are given GELT (Chocolate money) and when they give a wrong answer, they are banished to the “Cocakamamie Corner." And during the class, of course, Evelyn and Cantor Eddie argue constantly, sing Jewish melodies and fall in love. The play needs only two actors, a digital projector, a screen, and a laptop computer – and since the play itself takes place in a "classroom," it can be done anywhere quite easily...
The Wings of Love -- The magic and romance of Like Water for Chocolate with the intrigue of a political assassination. This is a beautiful love story filled with heartache and betrayal set in the time of Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico. The plot -- Leon Trotsky's adopted daughter, Sylvia falls in love with a man who might have been sent by Stalin to kill Trotsky. Can she stop him in time?
Lawrence of Suburbia – A poignant love story about fathers and sons, ping-pong, politics and pickled herring. It was a hit one person Off-Broadway play and at that time, it was called -- Boychik.
King Levine -- A modern day Comedic King Lear. A frozen food millionaire has to divide up his kingdom among his three daughters: one a cold MBA, the other a ditzy artist and the third, a radical, lesbian feminist… It is written for one actor to play the king and one actor to play all three daughters... And was a huge hit in LA.
12 Daze of Xmas-- A raunchy series of 12 comedic monologues by the twelve characters portrayed in the classic Xmas song. So, for example, we meet one of the 7 swans a swimming, but she turns out to be a post-operative transsexual who was once an ugly duckling…
How to Succeed in Art without Really Dying – A satirical look at how most of the great art movements of the Twentieth Century originated in Fouke, Arkansas.
Lamentation (A Play about Our Town) -- A comedy about what happens in a small town in New Hampshire when a sexually confused seventeen year old boy falls in love with his drama teacher while they are rehearsing a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Albino Black Jewish Lesbians on Zoloft -- A former TV star who now fashions herself as a drugged-out punk rocker is forced to take care of her wheelchair-bound grandmother.
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One Person Shows:
BOYCHIK: A Play about Fathers, Sons, Ping-Pong and Pickled Herring – A touching tale of a secular son’s reconciliation with his orthodox Jewish father.
Seltzer Man – The comedic and poetic tale of the last angry man left on the lower east side.
The Lemony Fresh Scent of Diva Monsoon – A big-time NY fashion designer, Diva Monsoon, visits her mother’s Miami Beach apartment to clean up after her mother’s funeral.
The Little Man & The Law: The Meyer Lansky Story – (written with Joseph Bologna). The true story of the gangster Meyer Lansky’s life and his attempts to emigrate to Israel. This play is a powerful drama with comedy. It was a Streisand Award Winner and ran off-Broadway for 12 weeks starring Mike Burstyn who was nominated for an outer critics award for his portrayal of the infamous gangster. (Based on Prof. Robert Rockaway's book, But He Was Good to his Mother.)
Love Mountain – A man gives up on society and dedicates his life to painting a mountain.
To get a copy of the DVD
HOW TO ADAPT ANYTHING INTO A SCREENPLAY
Richard Krevolin's Screenplays
All scripts are finished and ready to shoot!
Rednecks & Bluebloods -- A family of Southerners have to pose as Rednecks to get the Yankees next door to move back up North! This is a romantic comedy that could be shot on an ultra-low budget.
Max Holt, Ultra-Mega-Super-Stunt-Boy! -- A lonely boy who dreams of becoming the world's greatest stunt artist like his missing father, has to use all his stunt skills to survive once the FBI shows up in his school looking for him.
The Wings of Love -- The magic and romance of Like Water for Chocolate with the intrigue of a political assassination. This is a beautiful love story filled with heartache and betrayal set in the time of Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico. The plot -- Leon Trotsky's adopted daughter, Sylvia falls in love with a man who might have been sent by Stalin to kill Trotsky. Can she stop him in time?
The Fall of '51 -- (Written with Steve Hetherington) Based on the true story of Homer Rice who invented the triple option. Rice turned a bunch of farm kids in Kentucky into state champs. We have all life rights.
Eldorado -- (Written with Morton Reed) Sean Mallory, mid - 40's, has just spent the last 7 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Now, he's been released and he's the only one who knows where a bag with millions of dollars in gold is hidden. Sean grabs the gold and disappears in the middle of nowhere, namely, Eldorado, New Mexico.
UNTOUCHABLE -- (Co-written and will be co-produced by Tom DeSanto who produced X-men and The Transformers.) Larry Hoover, the notorious gang leader of the Chicago’s Gangster Disciples, is planning to launch the largest crime syndicate this country has ever seen and a U.S. District Attorney named Ron Safer is the only thing that stands in his way.
Debergs & The Bees – (Written with Kevin Burke) A funny, romantic, rock and rollCyrano in High school. A shy teen, Peter Deberg, writes a song that ends up getting played on the PA system in school. Next thing Peter knows, the captain of the hockey team claims it as his own and now he needs Peter to help him carry on this charade to get the girl that they both love.
Sympathy For The Devil -- (Written with Morton Reed) Ian Graham is the prince of darkness of rock and roll. When he almost dies, he is in the intensive care unit next to a sweet young high school cheerleader. As Ian dies, the demon that possesses him leaves his body and enters the sweet young girl's body, awaking her from her coma, but also changing her into a much darker soul. This is a low budget HORROR film.
Hostile Takeover -- The human genome is discovered, altered and out of control - killing everyone and thing in its path.
Lawrence of Suburbia – A poignant love story about fathers and sons, ping-pong, politics and pickled herring. Based upon the hit Off-Broadway play, Boychik. This is a Sundance type prestige art picture that could be done on a low budget.
King Levine -- (Written with Joseph Bologna based upon a stageplay written by Rich Krevolin) A modern day Comedic King Lear. A frozen food millionaire has to divide up his kingdom among his three daughters…
Immortality -- (Written with Susie Saary) The Matrix meets Ghost. A beautiful, young nuerosurgeon is haunted by the soul of her lost love inhabiting a world he created in cyberspace.
Naked on the ‘Net -- (Written with Kevin Burke) The day before Jay Birde is going to ask the woman he loves to marry him, he finds pictures of her NAKED online.
Hoops – (Story by Bruce Taylor, Dale Rosenbloom and Rich Krevolin, written by Rich Krevolin) The Bad News Bears play basketball. A multi-cultural bunch of learning disabled junior high school kids give their new gambling-addicted b-ball coach a lesson he'll never forget.
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RICHARD KREVOLIN'S STAGEPLAYS
All plays are finished, full-length and ready to be produced!
Bitter Angels – (written with Joe Bologna) This new two-character play dramatizes the relationship of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. It was inspired by the historical fact that Frederick Douglass was the first African American to meet with and advise a sitting President of the United States. He and Lincoln met at the White House three times against the backdrop of The Civil War, yet little is known about what was spoken. This tabula rasa served as fertile ground for the playwrights’ imaginations, bringing to life an important American friendship.
Attachments – (written with Joe Bologna) Control, Alt, cute meet.
One millennial I.T. nerd plus one computer illiterate senior citizen, equals one unlikely attachment. Eileen Roth, a widow who needs to learn how to use a computer in order to communicate with her beloved grand-daughter = hires Stanley, a frustrated video game designer and as they fall in love, they change each other’s lives.
Break Room -- This play is meant to unsettle and challenge stereotypes—and the very moments and ways we get unsettled by words ideas and preconceptions—it is timely. It is the story of a transgender employee at a national big box bulk discount store and the use of the bathrooms at that store… And it’s a love story, too.
Mind the Gap (A Play about The So-Called “United” States of America) – This comedy with music takes place in a playwriting classroom and features 8 students who all have written a short play that comes to life onstage during the course of the class. Their assignment is simply to write a play with 8 of the greatest characters from US history and bring them to life onstage. It’s a funny, crazy, eye-opening look at America today.
The Gospel According To Jerry -- (written with Rabbi Irwin Kula)
Jerry Silver is a divorced rabbi in a Yankees baseball cap searching to fill a personal void. Nia Thompson is a reserved African American woman desperate to lose weight. Their lives intersect when Nia signs up for an Overeaters' Anonymous group that Jerry is leading to get more hours for his master's degree in social work. With just Nia in the group, Jerry must work hard to keep things flowing. A heartwarming relationship unfolds in this funny new play that takes a contemporary look at family, Jewish - African American connections, stereotypes, and spirituality. This play features only two actors, powerful gospel music and wonderful new version of classic Jewish songs.
Adult Ed-JEW-cation: A Comedy that Takes You Behind the Matzoh Curtain & Gives You Nachas --
An interactive comedy in the vein of Late Night Catechism, but Jewish. In this 90 minute comedy, Evelyn Schwartz, a Hebrew School Teacher and Eddie Shulman, a Reform Synagogue Cantor team-teach an Adult Education Class on the principles of Judaism. The play is structured so that the audience is treated as if there are members of the class and so, when they give a right answer, they are given GELT (Chocolate money) and when they give a wrong answer, they are banished to the “Cocakamamie Corner." And during the class, of course, Evelyn and Cantor Eddie argue constantly, sing Jewish melodies and fall in love. The play needs only two actors, a digital projector, a screen, and a laptop computer – and since the play itself takes place in a "classroom," it can be done anywhere quite easily...
The Wings of Love -- The magic and romance of Like Water for Chocolate with the intrigue of a political assassination. This is a beautiful love story filled with heartache and betrayal set in the time of Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico. The plot -- Leon Trotsky's adopted daughter, Sylvia falls in love with a man who might have been sent by Stalin to kill Trotsky. Can she stop him in time?
Lawrence of Suburbia – A poignant love story about fathers and sons, ping-pong, politics and pickled herring. It was a hit one person Off-Broadway play and at that time, it was called -- Boychik.
King Levine -- A modern day Comedic King Lear. A frozen food millionaire has to divide up his kingdom among his three daughters: one a cold MBA, the other a ditzy artist and the third, a radical, lesbian feminist… It is written for one actor to play the king and one actor to play all three daughters... And was a huge hit in LA.
12 Daze of Xmas-- A raunchy series of 12 comedic monologues by the twelve characters portrayed in the classic Xmas song. So, for example, we meet one of the 7 swans a swimming, but she turns out to be a post-operative transsexual who was once an ugly duckling…
How to Succeed in Art without Really Dying – A satirical look at how most of the great art movements of the Twentieth Century originated in Fouke, Arkansas.
Lamentation (A Play about Our Town) -- A comedy about what happens in a small town in New Hampshire when a sexually confused seventeen year old boy falls in love with his drama teacher while they are rehearsing a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Albino Black Jewish Lesbians on Zoloft -- A former TV star who now fashions herself as a drugged-out punk rocker is forced to take care of her wheelchair-bound grandmother.
__________________________________________________
One Person Shows:
BOYCHIK: A Play about Fathers, Sons, Ping-Pong and Pickled Herring – A touching tale of a secular son’s reconciliation with his orthodox Jewish father.
Seltzer Man – The comedic and poetic tale of the last angry man left on the lower east side.
The Lemony Fresh Scent of Diva Monsoon – A big-time NY fashion designer, Diva Monsoon, visits her mother’s Miami Beach apartment to clean up after her mother’s funeral.
The Little Man & The Law: The Meyer Lansky Story – (written with Joseph Bologna). The true story of the gangster Meyer Lansky’s life and his attempts to emigrate to Israel. This play is a powerful drama with comedy. It was a Streisand Award Winner and ran off-Broadway for 12 weeks starring Mike Burstyn who was nominated for an outer critics award for his portrayal of the infamous gangster. (Based on Prof. Robert Rockaway's book, But He Was Good to his Mother.)
Love Mountain – A man gives up on society and dedicates his life to painting a mountain.