Jill Chamberlain is the founder of a screenwriting school, a script consultant, a screenwriter, and the author of
The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret to Successful Screenwriting.
The Nutshell Technique is considered the go-to manual many professionals swear by. It's on the syllabus at Columbia University, UCLA, and film schools all over the world. It's been published in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Italian, and in audiobook format. Oscar-winning screenwriter Han Jin-won (
Parasite) said “Jill Chamberlain sets a new standard for plotting stories. Use the Nutshell Technique to crack your story.”
Jill has fixed and fine tuned scripts for Oscar-nominated screenwriters, top television showrunners, screenwriters whose movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office, award-winning independent filmmakers, and for many, many spec script writers.
In 2006, Jill founded The Screenplay Workshop with Jill Chamberlain (
www.thescreenplayworkshop.org) where she has personally taught thousands of screenwriters feature film and episodic television writing. She's been an invited speaker at institutions including: WGA-East, YLE Finland, Canacine (Mexican Chamber of the Film Industry), Maryland Institute College of the Arts (MICA), University of Houston, and TSL The Script Lab. Find her online at
jillchamberlain.com.