Marilyn Horowitz, the president of ArtMar Productions and creator of The Horowitz System™, is an award-winning NYU professor, a producer, a screenwriter, and a successful writing coach. She is the author of How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks and the script consultant for the recent Warner Bros. film And Then Came Love, starring Vanessa Williams. Her students include published novelists, screenwriters, and award-winning filmmakers.

For more than a decade, Marilyn’s book has been a required text at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. The book is also required in the NYU Graduate Film Program, where she teaches "Writing The Feature" and "Aesthetics II."

Her book, How to Write a Screenplay Using The Horowitz System™— The High School Edition and was recently approved for use by the Montgomery County Public School system in Maryland.

How to Write a Screenplay Using The Horowitz System™ - The Middle School Edition is used as part of the "Lights, Camera, Literacy!" program in the MCPS.

The Horowitz System™ is a unique writing method for writers and non-writers alike. Using a special series of visualization exercises, the Horowitz System™ teaches screenwriters to write faster and better by giving them a focused, easy-to-use method. The system teaches aspiring writers to write by using their natural storytelling abilities to see their life as a movie and translate it onto the page.

Marilyn presents workshops as an inspirational speaker across the country on a regular basis. She hosts numerous seminars per year on the Creative Business of Screenwriting, Story Development, Writing The Treatment and the How to Sell Your Script for New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), New York Script Club (NYSC) and Women in Film and Video (WIFV) in Washington DC.  Earlier this year, Marilyn was a featured speaker at the Santa Fe Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She is also a Senior Writer for Script and has contributed articles to Hollywood Scriptwriter.

Marilyn’s latest script, Off Season has been optioned by Screenworks Productions and her screenplay, The Fixer, is being produced by Snackpack Productions, an independent film company. She recently produced an independent feature film, Caleb's Door, which has been licensed for Distribution by Around the Scenes, Inc.