Webb Wilcoxen
Writing
Biography
Webb Wilcoxen is an American screenwriter, filmmaker and playwright. He is best known as the screenwriter of the award-winning horror film THE DEAD THING (Shudder/AMC Networks) starring Blu Hunt, as well as THE FRONTIER (Kino Lorber) starring Jocelin Donahue, Jim Beaver and Kelly Lynch. A longtime member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, his works as a playwright include productions at the Joseph Papp Public Theater under artistic director Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Obie Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theater Company under artistic director Qui Nguyen (RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON.)
Known For
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
The Dead Thing
A desperate young woman, on the run from the law, takes a job at a remote desert motel. She quickly discovers the motel's patrons are rendezvousing after a large robbery. With nothing to lose, and all to gain, she hatches a plan to steal their loot.
The Frontier
This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society. The film traces the evolution of Norma's career from Broadway actress in the '40s, through her ground-breaking work in creative movement with disabled and mentally retarded children in the '60s, to her present work as a dance therapist with adults. Utilizing drawing, music, theater, and dance in the context of other modes of therapy, her work has proved extraordinarily beneficial for handicapped individuals, as well as providing cathartic healing experiences for those with deep emotional scars; And her work with children who were blind, deaf, or autistic has became a model.