Biography

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, Stage 32, and Screencraft.

Her producing debut, the ABC four-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.

In addition, her full-length play, Turnaround, premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Series and was staged at two other L.A. theaters. With a Creative Grant from LMU's School of Film & Television, she has launched her first podcast: Daughters and their Fathers: It's Complicated.

An educator for 26 years, Meyer has thrived teaching screenwriting to emerging visual storytellers: First, at Chapman University; then a decade at the American Film Institute Conservatory; and for the past nine years at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film & Television. After serving as Graduate Director of LMU's MFA Screenwriting Programs for four years and eight years as Associate Clinical Professor, she is now an assistant professor in Screenwriting at LMU. In 2019, she was named one of the top film educators in the country by Variety.

During the summer, she teaches "The Alchemy of Adaptation" to authors at the esteemed Community of Writers in Olympic Valley, California.

Patricia K. Meyer earned a BA in History & Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Boston University. Meyer is a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Meyer is a third-generation industry professional: Her Grandfather Nathan J. Blumberg served as CEO and President of Universal Pictures from 1939 to 1960, and her father, Stanley Meyer, produced the first series incarnation of DRAGNET. Currently, she is developing a new play about her studio head grandpa's collaborative efforts to navigate the film business during World War II.