Vin Morreale, Jr. is an award-winning screenwriter, published author and internationally-produced playwright.  He was selected as one of The Blacklist’s Top TV Writers in THE BLACKLIST’S 2015 TV WRITERS STAFFING BOOK over thousands of other writers whose material is reviewed by the organization. Morreale has sold material to national TV shows, and has had a number of screenplays optioned, with two feature films produced to date. He was among the first honorees inducted into the Kentucky Film & TV Hall of Fame. He wrote, directed and produced the low-budget romantic comedy BREAKING & ENTERING, which continues to hold the record for the largest screening premiere in the Southeast, with 2,619 ticketholders and an $18,550.00 box office for a single showing at the historic Palace Theater. Vin Morreale, Jr. was awarded the prestigious Al Smith Writing Fellowship, and his numerous scripts, stage plays and radio comedy have received than 1,000 productions throughout the United States, in addition to productions in England, Greece, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, Italy, Russia and Sri Lanka. In the past two years, he has seen his work translated into Spanish, Italian and Russian, had both screenplays and teleplays win or place in numerous writing and film festival competitions, including: Scriptapalooza, Final Draft Big Break Contest, ScreenCraft Writing Fellowship, Emerging Screenwriters, StoryPros Screenwriting Competition, Table Read My Screenplay, TV Writers People's Pilot Awards and Austin Film Festival. He has two new books - Mabel the Maple and Knowing When To Leave scheduled for publication in the second half of 2017. His latest two-act comedy, THE KISS ME CURSE was commissioned by LCP and proved to be the most successful play in the venerable theater’s 60-year history. Vin Morreale, Jr. has written and directed numerous documentaries, including the internationally acclaimed, six-hour series The PGA of America's Complete History Of Golf, The Kentucky Derby Collector's Showcase, Rand McNally's "Central Florida", Altered Visions - The Dan Rhema Story, as well as the Telly Award-winning performance documentary, The Louisville Ballet's "Cinderella."He was a founding member of the San Francisco Playwrights’ Center and the Senseless Bickering Comedy Theatre. He has four books on theater in print, including Burning Up The Stage, 300 MONOLOGUES, TWO CHARACTER CHAOS and 150 ACTING SCENES, as well as more than a dozen other titles ranging from humor books to novels to illustrated children's stories.