Ethan Silverman brings 20 years of professional experience as a theatre director and filmmaker to Journeys in Film.  He has directed new plays, revivals, and performance pieces at many theatres around the country, including BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS with Ron Silver and his adaptation of Pete Townshend’s THE BOY WHO HEARD MUSIC at New York Stage & Film.  His first short film CENTRAL PARK and his documentary THE WAITING CHILDREN (produced by Joanne Strahl Ashe) both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.  Ethan is a member of the Writers Guild of America East and has written screenplays for Disney Pictures, VH-1, and Barry Levinson.  In 2008, he was selected for a creative residency at The Yaddo Institute, in Saratoga Springs, NY.  Currently teaching “Narrative Strategies” and “Thesis Writing” at the MFA Program in Design & Technology at Parsons The New School in New York City, Ethan is, “proud to have been an early developer and facilitator of Journeys in Film.”