Biography

Awarded the prestigious AL SMITH FELLOWSHIP by the Kentucky Arts Council for outstanding artistic achievement as a playwright/screenwriter, Margaret C. Price writes stories illuminating the resilient human spirit. An honors graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Kentucky College of Law (Law Journal; member Ky. Bar), Price was an attorney with Disney’s Shamrock Corp.’s ABC television affiliate in Lexington when she agreed to be guardian ad litem for a child raped by a pedophile. This case convinced Price to change her career path and move to London where she studied Screenplay Writing at the University of London (a BBC program). Price wrote the award- winning screenplay AN UNGENTLE TRUTH that attracted Desmond Wilcox, then head of BBC Docu-dramas. The script won the Minneapolis-St. Paul Screenlabs Competition and was produced into a compelling film. From London, Price moved to Los Angeles where she studied Advanced Screenplay Writing at the American Film Institute and after selling scripts for film and television, joined the Writers Guild.

Price’s hard-hitting stage-play DOVE AND DANDELION, (about children in jail) was performed on Capital Hill at the National Juvenile Justice Conference for members of the House and Senate before touring nation-wide. Adapted into a film, DOVE AND DANDELION won Honors in the Louisville Film Festival.

Award-winning screenplays/stage-plays include: MIRAGE, Finalist, 2017 Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition; 2018 AFF semi-finalist and semi-finalist 2017 Nashville Film Festival. THE TEARS OF THE SILVER LIONS, a Nichols quarter-finalist. LOOKING FOR MRS. CLAUS, Second Place, Practical Paradox Productions, San Francisco. (Adapted into a musical, produced Studio Players, Ky.) BELLE BREZING, screenplay, honored by Toronto WildSound and produced as a stage-play, at the Spoleto Festival, the Lost Theatre (LA) and the New York National Opera Theatre; also a Second Rounder Austin Film Festival (2017). THE WONDER FIVE, about a 1928 Carr Creek basketball team, was optioned by Alexandra Rose Productions with Ashley Judd attached as director. CHILLIPOP (novel and screenplay), a top five finalist in Creative Lex Screenplay Competition, was presented at the World Equestrian Games. Price’s book SMILEY PETE (also adapted into a screenplay) was awarded a Carnegie Center Lawyers Reading to Children grant.

Price’s book Maasai Angel benefits the Women and Children’s Changarawe Project in East Africa. She has had stories published by Simon and Schuster (the Chocolate series) and the Ky. Bar Association (“Children and the Law”). Price’s poem RESILIENCE won Second Place in Horticulture Magazine’s national poetry contest. Price taught screenplay writing at the University of Kentucky before offering screenplay writing workshops at The Carnegie Center. She lives in Lexington with her husband and three daughters.