Introduction to a Writer: Pamala L. Hall 

 

“Strength, wisdom and fire! The kind of scenes actors live to play!”

             Jacklyn Zeman/ABC-TV

“I am so impressed with your work. You’re obviously a writer of wide-ranging interests. Best of luck. You clearly deserve it. Send any future scripts!”

             Robert Redford

“Fascinating ideas, exquisite and extraordinary writing.”

             Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis

“Reading these works is a mystical experience. The writing is an actor’s treasure. I could not put the works down! And “Harry & Evelyn is brilliant! Mystical!”

             Richard Shull/Victor/Victoria

“I consider the writing and the ideas just excellent! So much talent!”

             Liza Minnelli

“An astounding gift for insight. A writer with a brilliant gift for dialogue, characters and stories, that move the soul profoundly. A writer rich with honor, kindness and creatively so daring! “The Promise Cage” is painfully beautiful! Your writing amazes me! Your film/series ALL DAY AND A NIGHT is just another shining example of tremendous insight into character and writing that just explodes on the screen. It is sheer genius! Watching you create the series, THE KEEPERS with us years ago -was a gift!”

             Tod Jonson/producer/foreign press/award winning Documentarian

“You can’t imagine how delighted I am to read your works as they progress. Your subjects are so fascinating and your characters well rounded and so very intriguing for an Actor to “take on”. I eagerly look forward to your next production. Your integrity always shines through!”

              Anne Francis

“Very good!  Power and quality. If you have a script for me~ send them!”

              Susan Sullivan

“These works look simply wonderful.  Please~ do keep sending and sending!”

              Mariette Hartley/actress/writer

“You are obviously a very talented writer. I shall consider any of your works as soon as I am able to take on new commitments! What tremendous works you offer.”

             Stan Margulies / producer /Warner Bros

“Pamala writes with that specialized and rarefied vision that marks a true artist. Unflinchingly dissecting powerful relationships and the infinite entanglements of the human condition~ her works provoke insight and inspiration among all who experience them.”

             William C. Mulligan  /Doubleday author

“We are so very impressed with the variety and the quality of your writings.”

             Suzanne Crayson /PBS/Los Angeles

“Pamala has an excellent gift which can become one of the outstanding contributions to the film, stage and literary world. She has a rich, fertile mind, a devotion to the very highest level of quality; additionally, she has the love and desire to succeed.”

            Ruth Warrick/Citizen Kane /ABC/All My Children

“You are one very gifted writer! ‘Harry and Evelyn: Years After” is a haunting theatre musical and a film version would be mesmerizing, too!”

            Jack Lemmon

“I don’t know where to start in reading THE PROMISE CAGE. I have never connected with a script in such a way. It is absolutely beautiful and brilliant! So, measured. Well handled! Your characters are so well molded, the dialogue, the setting, camera movements- all must be kept! 

You have such a sense of story and pacing. The project holds such resonance for me. The story is very universal and a film anyone would aspire to see done. You are an exquisite writer in all you do, and I would love to have you create more and more such powerful works!”

            Eoin Macken, actor/BBC-MERLIN, The Tudors, director, cinematographer,writer

“Once I started to read the amazing movie script, I wanted to read the script all the way to the ending.  Everything is in there from sadness feeling the emotional pain to happiness. I was very moved, so interesting to read. It was painful at times to be taken to the reality of those terrible prison days. My days were filled with fear, death, torture and rape was always close by. Thank you for telling my story so incredibly.  You were so kind and helpful. I could trust you.”

            Marita Patos, author, “Trapped Behind the Iron Curtain”

‘”Pamala Hall is an extremely talented and gifted professional. Her screenplays light up the reader’s imagination with visual and sensory images that transport that reader to places she creates with smooth and creative strokes of her pen. She took my book on Moe Berg and raised it from a novel to the foundation for a blockbuster movie, and I could not ask for anyone better to work with. She is respectful of the work I did on the book, while bringing her know-how of cinematography and her unique perspectives on how to enhance the story and characters in ways I would not have envisioned without her. What a pleasure it has been for me to work with Pamala, and I hope we have the opportunity to work together again.”

             David Huffstetler/ Author, Catcher, Lover, Spy

PAMALA L. HALL: Background

Following an acting career in California, which included lengthy studies with The Melrose Theatre (Meisner technique), Pasadena Playhouse coach, Alan Levitt, and other outstanding coaches, I continued a career in shows such as ‘THAT’S LIFE” with legendary Robert Morse, as well as FELONY SQUAD, KILDARE, and other shows.

My early opportunities as a creative writer were with producer and award-winning actor Mako at the legendary General Service Studios, where I worked under his guidance.

I began writing, as well as producing and directing my own theatre showcases. I have also written the book and lyrics for numerous stage plays and musicals, as well as over forty songs (lyrics) with talented composers such as Michael McFrederick (Carnegie Hall, Linda Hopkins, and American Dance Machine) and Martin Mandelbaum.

I have written countless scripts for film, television, and theatre, and have undertaken my first non-fiction novel based on a true story.