The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) is a professional association organized for educational purposes, including the promotion and encouragement of the art and craft of screenwriting.

The ASA is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, and is committed to the international support and advancement of all screenwriters. Interested individuals from around the world who are pursuing the writing of documentaries, educational films, feature films, television, and even large screen format (Omnimax , IMAX ) films, are welcome to join.

Today, the American Screenwriters Association has an international membership of more than 30,000 members world wide. The ASA accomplishes their mission by providing writers with practical resources, networking opportunities, and services and programs to enhance their skills.

Better known members include Gary Ross

Gary Ross

Gary Ross is an American writer, director, and actor. He is best known for directing Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, both of which featured Tobey Maguire in the lead role...

 (Seabiscuit, Big, Dave, Pleasantville), Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Social Network, and Moneyball.After graduating from Syracuse...

 (The West Wing, An American President, A Few Good Men, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Shane Black

Shane Black

Shane Black is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to some of the biggest blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including work on Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout...

 (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Kiss-Kiss Bang-Bang ), Terry Rossio

Terry Rossio

Terry Rossio is an American screenwriter.Rossio was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating from Saddleback High School in Santa Ana, California, he went on to study at California State University, Fullerton where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with an emphasis in radio,...

 and Ted Elliot (Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, The Mask of Zorro, Aladdin), Syd Field

Syd Field

Syd Field is an American writer who has become one of the most popular screenwriting gurus in the movie industry. Field has written several books on the subject of screenwriting, and holds workshops and seminars around the world that help aspiring and professional screenwriters produce the kind of...

, Linda Seger

Linda Seger

Linda Seger is a screenwriting coach and script consultant best known for her method of analyzing movie scripts, which she originally developed as her college dissertation project. She has consulted on over 2000 screenplays with the likes of Ron Howard, Ray Bradbury and Jennifer Hilldebrand...

, Michael Hauge

Michael Hauge

Michael Hauge is a story and script consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers on their screenplays, novels, movies and television projects...

, Lew Hunter

Lew Hunter

Lewis R. Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television...

, Richard Walter amongst others.

• John E. Johnson, Executive Director

Current Board Members Include:

• Michael Hauge
  Michael Hauge
  Michael Hauge is a story and script consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers on their screenplays, novels, movies and television projects...
  
  , Script consultant, author
• Diane Cairns, Film Industry Executive
• Ellen Sandler, Writer/Producer (Everybody Loves Raymond)
• Nick Filippo, Business Executive
• Craig Scott, Filmmaker, Rachel's Challenge
• Mark R. Turner, Indie Producer
• Jason Pila, Screenwriter

External links

• Official website