Geller, Stephen D.
Biography
Stephen D. Geller was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Birmingham High School in 1958 and attended Dartmouth College, Class of 1962. During his time at Dartmouth, Geller wrote and produced a number of short plays and received the Markus Heiman Award for this contribution to the creative arts at Dartmouth in 1961. He received his MFA from Yale University in 1965. His screenplay for the 1972 film “Slaughterhouse Five” won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as a nomination by the Writer’s Guild of America. The miniseries “Warburg: A Man of Influence,” for which he wrote the script, won the European Silver Award for Best Miniseries. He has worked for nearly 30 years in the American, French, Italian, and British film industries. Geller has taught film and the creative writing process at Dartmouth College, in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Film and Director of the Screenwriting Program at Boston University’s College of Communication. Geller presently resides in Jamestown, Rhode Island, where he has also just finished production on the film “Mother’s Little Helpers,” which was based on his unpublished novel of the same title.