neil turitz
Writer (2006 - 2008)

Director (2006 - 2008)

Neil Turitz joined spurn for the October 2006 production, and now we can't make him leave. Neil was born and raised in Portland, Maine, which is a lovely place to live but a rather boring one in which to grow up. He went to college at Columbia University in New York and, after falling in love with the city, never left. He was a sports writer at the New York Post and covered entertainment at US Magazine (when it was still a monthly and, therefore, respectable) before leaving behind his journalism career for an exciting and occasionally lucrative one as a screenwriter. He wrote and directed the award-winning romantic comedy Two Ninas starring Amanda Peet (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Syriana) and Ron Livingston (Standoff, Sex in the City, Office Space, co-wrote and produced the award-stiffed, but still very funny, Knots, with John Stamos (ER, Full House), Tara Reid (American Pie), Paulina Porizkova and Annabeth Gish (Brotherhood), and has done extensive work as a script doctor (most recently for the European production, I Am Legion, to be filmed in the winter), director of live theater (the sketch comedy group spurn), and all-around trouble shooter, dragon slayer and world saver. He is single, a Sagittarius, and has lived in the same apartment for 14 years.