Jule Selbo

Jule Britt Selbo is an American screenwriter, playwright, author, producer and professor. She was born in Fargo, North Dakota. She is currently a professor in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at California State University, Fullerton and is a member of the WGA.

Education

Selbo attended Southern Methodist University and obtained her B.F.A. She continued her educational path into graduate school and received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina and her Ph.D. from the University of Exeter for her work in Film Genre.

Career

Selbo has worked with industry pioneers like George Lucas, Roland Joffe, Lauren Shuler-Donner, Michael Newell, Aaron Spelling and with all the major Hollywood Studios. She was involved in screenwriting and producing works in feature film, television, animated series and daytime dramas for Columbia Pictures, Paramount, Universal and HBO.

Selbo has written animated films for the Jim Henson Company and Walt Disney Studios, notably work on Ariel’s Beginning, Cinderella II and The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.

Publications

Selbo's Dee Rommel Mystery Series' has garnered awards and literary nominations. The ten-part series takes place in Portland Maine and follows the investigations of Dee Rommel, a former policewoman and now a private investigator. The first book is 10 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery,', it is followed by 9 DAYS, 8 DAYS, 7 DAYSand 6 DAYS. Selbo intends to work her way down to 1 DAY. Other novels include Find Me in Florence, Breaking Barriers, The Life of Laura Bassi and Dreams of Discovery, Based on the Life of John Cabot

Selbo has written books for screenwriters on screenwriting structure and film genre as well as on film history including Women Screenwriters: An International Guide and Film Genre for Screenwriters.

She was a co-editor of the Journal of Screenwriting (Intellect Press) 2008 to 2012.

She has also written for theatre with productions in New York, Los Angeles, Louisville and other theaters in the USA. In 2025, the world premiere of Mary Shelley, Year With No Summer, directed by Richard Camp, was presented at the Ojai Theatre in California.'

Filmography

Producer

YearTitleCreditsNotes
1989-1992Life Goes OnStory Editor/Producer5 episodes
1994-1995Models Inc.Supervising Producer28 episodes
1995-1999Melrose PlaceConsulting Producer24 episodes
1998-2001UndressedExecutive Producer130 episodes
2006Beyond the FenceConsulting ProducerShort

Writer

YearTitleNotes
1985-1988Tales From the Darkside10 episodes
1988Raising Miranda1 episode
1988Annie McGuire1 episode
1989-1990Monsters3 episodes
1991Prison Stories: Women on the InsideSegment "3"
1991The Flash1 episode
1991A DancerShort Film
1991Hard PromisesFeature
1993Johnny Bago1 episodes
1993The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles6 episodes
1994Hercules and the Amazon Women
1994-1995Models Inc.5 episodes
1995The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
1996 Space: Above and Beyond1 episode
1996The Adventures of Sinbad1 episode
1998-1999Melrose Place3 episodes
2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2002The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
2002Cinderella II: Dreams Come TrueSegment “Tall Tail”
2008The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
2008The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2011Pound Puppies1 episode

References

  1. ↑ "Jule Selbo Biography (1954-)". www.filmreference.com. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  2. 1 2 "College of Communications - Selbo, Jule". communications.fullerton.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
  3. ↑ Fink, Edward J. (2014-01-03). Dramatic Story Structure: A Primer for Screenwriters. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 9781135081225.
  4. ↑ Nelmes, Jill (2014-09-01). "'Screenwriting research: No longer a lost cause': A keynote presentation at the SRN Conference 2013". Journal of Screenwriting. 5 (3): 301–311. doi:10.1386/josc.5.3.301_1.
  5. ↑ "Jule Selbo". www.writersstore.com. Retrieved 2016-03-17.