James Breckenridge

James Breckenridge has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years. In 1995, his years of professional training and experience culminated in the founding of The PlayCrafters Group. As its director, he specializes in working one-on-one with playwrights and screenplay writers to develop producible scripts. Through objective feedback, he helps writers to focus on the essential elements of their stories and to achieve results that specifically serve the script, as well as fulfill the writer’s original vision. This lies at the heart of the very same work Mr. Breckenridge has been engaged in for the past two decades. As a director and creative writing consultant, he has helped in the staging and conceptualizing of over 200 dramatic scripts. Requests for his services have come from writers as far away as Norway, Turkey and the U.K.

In addition to private coachings and consultations, Mr. Breckenridge has taught screenwriting for The Bryn Mawr Film Institute, the Bucks County Writer’s Room and the Lehigh Valley Writer’s Academy. He has been a featured speaker at The Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, The Algonquin Film Festival, The Bucks Fever Film Fest, and since it’s inception, has presented seminars at the SCREENWRITING EXPO in Los Angeles, California where he was named “star speaker.” Mr. Breckenridge recently served on the Theatrical Motion Pictures Nominating Committee for the Screen Actors Guild Awards and as juror for The Philadelphia Film Festival’s Feature Film Competition and the Bucks Fever Film Fest. His script development service was recently rated in the top ten and recommended as one of the best of the best buys in Creative Screenwriting magazine’s review of script consultants from all across the country.