In her long career as a screenwriter and producer, Meyer has sold and written numerous feature screenplays, from dark comedies to true crime dramas, for Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and all the major studios. In addition, she has written network miniseries and movies-of-the-week, as well as an original drama pilot for CBS. Her scripts have placed in the top percentiles with such competitions as the Sundance Lab, the Austin Film Festival, and Screencraft.
Her producing debut, the ABC 4-hour miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, starring Oprah Winfrey, earned an Emmy® nomination and Image Award. She also executive produced Nora Ephron’s directorial debut, This is My Life, for 20th Century Fox. Meyer is a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
An educator for 24 years, Meyer has thrived teaching screenwriting to emerging visual storytellers. After a decade at AFI, she is now an assistant professor of screenwriting at LMU. In 2019, she was named one of the top film educators in the country by Variety: https://variety.com/2019/film/features/entertainment-education-report-best-films-schools-for-2019-1203213637/
Patricia K. Meyer earned a BA in History & Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Boston University.