Brian Kelly grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where he ingested a steady diet of science-fiction, ghost stories, and 1930's and 1940's Universal Monster flicks. As a result, he developed a love for the supernatural at an early age and it wasn't long before he began writing his own stories. In school he won multiple awards for creative writing, beginning with the Regional Young Author's Award in junior high and culminating with his final year in college when his senior project, an original sci-fi play, won Best Student Production of the Year. In between he managed to self-publish a novel, work as a columnist at a newspaper and even have a few short stories published in various magazines around the country.
After graduating with a double major in English Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky, Brian moved to Los Angeles and discovered smog, traffic, and screenwriting. He has toiled away on his writing for years and knocked on doors all over Hollywood only to find them locked... but he hopes to eventually find one of the elusive keys. The only alternative to get through those doors is dynamite.
Ian Murphy attended film school at Cal State Northridge where he majored in Screenwriting and minored in Shakespeare. He spent many hours in the theater program (both in Northridge and at Moorpark College) writing, acting and learning stage combat. It was here that he wrote his first play, Music for the Masses, and had it produced at Moorpark College. He has also been a contributing writer for TVGASM.com, an executive assistant for the show Sitting Ducks at Universal, and an intern at Robert Greenweld Productions.
Ian's Father and Mother, both teachers, always encouraged his vivid imagination and love of all things literary, and Ian spent most of his childhood watching the films of Jim Henson, Ridley Scott and Monty Python. His love of all things supernatural led him to help form Haunted Pen Productions in 2008, mostly to impress girls. Feel free to send him an e-mail, which would be nice because, as a writer, he sometimes gets very lonely.
