Scott Fivelson

Scott Fivelson is a playwright, screenwriter, author, and director whose short stories and satirical pieces have appeared in Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Times, A Weekly, Playboy, and Tales from the Heart of Hollywood.

His novel, Tuxes, a satire of the classic multigenerational rich-family saga, was published by BeachSide Press. He is also the author of a number of plays, including Dial L for Latch-Key and Leading the Witness, and coauthor of a noir detective novella, Johnny Passe.

Dial L for Latch-Key has been performed onstage in London, San Francisco, Toronto, and elsewhere. The audiobook version, Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play, is distributed by Blackstone Audio, which also distributes his audiobook, A Farewell to Legs, a humorous homage to Ernest Hemingway, read by Mariel Hemingway. Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play was selected as the opening presentation at the Second Annual HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction & Arts Festival.

His film, American Reel, a comedy/drama about the music business, stars David Carradine, Michael Maloney, and Mariel Hemingway and features songs written and performed by David Carradine.

Fivelson won the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2014 Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles for the film 3 Holes and a Smoking Gun, and two years later, he won the Breakthrough Director Spotlight award at the 2016 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival for the film Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story, starring Lenny Von Dohlen as legendary director Oskar Knight.