BRIAN McAULEY is afraid of the dark, yet forever enthralled by things that go bump in the night. Growing up in suburban New Jersey, he nurtured his young imagination with Goosebumps books, late-night Twilight Zone reruns, and an endless stream of horror films that he was way too young to be watching. This ravenous appetite for scary stories led him to NYUʼs Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he earned his self-crafted BA in Screenwriting and Horror Theory, culminating in a TEDx lecture on the therapeutic value of his beloved genre. In 2009, he adapted his horror/comedy feature screenplay Love Me Tender into an award-winning short film that has been selected to play at over twenty international film festivals. While working toward his MFA at Columbia, Brian has been awarded several teaching assistantships, during which he illuminated The Heroʼs Journey with clips from Alien and analyzed the monster-in-the-making structure of Breaking Bad. An internship with The Levinson/Fontana Company gave him firsthand experience in the world of television writing as he helped compile show bibles, proofread scripts, and assisted the New York writing team while in production on Borgia. Brian crafts the stories that he wants to see - the ones that make you care about the characters before the blood begins to spill.