Hoyt Hilsman
Hoyt R. Hilsman is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and critic, and was recently a candidate for Congress in California. He is a director at the Hope Street Group, a bipartisan think tank whose members are committed to the equality of opportunity and economic growth.[1][citation needed]
Hoyt Hilsman was raised in Washington, D.C., where his father served as Assistant Secretary of State in the administration of President Kennedy. Hilsman attended Columbia University and then went on to Columbia Law School.
After finishing law school, Hilsman began working at the Federal Legal Services Program with the poor, unemployed and disabled at a state prison. He has been a regular theater and television critic for Daily Variety and a regular contributor to national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and many others. He recently completed a novel,[2] a political thriller set in the Middle East.
Writings
Hoyt has written screenplays for major movie studios and television networks, including New Line, Disney, Sony, CBS and ABC. His original television pilot, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the Slamdance Film Festival. His plays have been produced in the US and abroad and have won numerous awards.
He is the former President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.
He currently is a regular contributor to [The Huffington Post].[3]
He recently published Nineteen Angels,[2] a political thriller set in the Middle East.
Congressional Election of 2008
On July 8, 2007 Hoyt Hilsman announced he would forming an exploratory committee before running in California's 26th congressional district in the 2008 Congressional Elections. David Dreier currently occupies the seat and will run for re-election.
Hilsman announced in early March that he would not be entering the Democratic primary in the 26th, but that he would be actively supporting the Democratic ticket in many different ways in 2008.[citation needed]