Local Playwriting Connections: 

Great Plains Theater Conference
www.mccneb.edu/theatreconference/
Annual end-of-May week long stage play event at Metropolitan Community college

Shelterbelt Theater
www.shelterbelt.org/
Website of Omaha's theater doing original plays

General Playwriting Resources:

Dramatists Guild
www.dramaguild.com/
Website of the professional playwrights' organization, listing links, publishers, theater companies

Playwriting Opportunities.Com
www.playwritingopportunities.com/
Website listing contests, theater companies & craft books

The Playwriting Seminars
www.vcu.edu/arts/playwriting/seminar.html
Website listing links to anything you want to know about playwriting

Writers Store
www.writersstore.com/
Website of scripting articles & links to vast number of craft books  

Screenwriting Resources: 

Local Screenwriting Connections: 

Omaha Film Festival
www.omahafilmfestival.org/
Website of Omaha's rapidly growing, week-long, late-winter celebration of indie films and new screenwriting, with a contest category just for Nebraskans. 

Omaha Plus
Contact:  Johnnye Gerhardt / Sally Walker

Critique group of Screenwriters who have attended Lew Hunter's Screenwriting Colonies

Omaha Screenwriting Workshop
www.usscreenwriter.com/OmahaSW/index.html
Weekly meeting of Screenwriters to read & critique Works-in-Progress

Writers Guild of America - West
www.wga.org/
Website of the professional Screenwriters organization with articles & list of signatory agents 

Filmakers.Com
www.filmmakers.com/index.htm
Website with articles and links

Hollywood Scriptwriters Digest
www.screenscripts.com/recipients_of_catalog.htm
Find contact info for production companies & agents

InkTip
www.inktip.com/aboutus.php
Website listing screenplay contests & professional connections

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
www.imdb.com/
THE website to research films, actors, production staff.  "Pro" provides contact info.

MovieBytes
www.moviebytes.com/index.cfm
Listing of screenplay contests & markets 

Scriptwriters Network
www.scriptwritersnetwork.org/swn/index.php?page=Home
Website of  resources supporting supporting screenwriters

Simply Scripts
http://www.simplyscripts.com/full_movie.html
Website to find, read and print vast number of FREE screenplays

Zoetrope
www.zoetrope.com/
Francis Ford Coppola's website supporting emerging screenwriters

Screenwriting Craft Resources:

Done Deal
www.donedealpro.com/default.aspx
Website to research latest sales names & figures

Scriptscene
www.scriptscene.org/
On-Line Screenwriting Chapter of Romance Writers of America

Writers Store
www.writersstore.com/
Website of scripting articles & links to vast number of craft books

Screenwriting Gurus on the Web:

Syd Field
www.sydfield.com/about.htm

Michael Hauge
www.screenplaymastery.com/

Lew Hunter  (Fellow Nebraskan)

www.lewhunter.com/

Karl Iglesias
www.karliglesias.com/

Linda Seger
www.lindaseger.com/bio.htm

John Truby
www.truby.com/index.html

Christopher Vogler
www.thewritersjourney.com/

Screenwriting Classes/Critiques on the Web:

Morningside Writers
www.morningsidewriters.com/
On-Line support group requiring commitment and participation

The Writers Place
www.thewritersplace.org/index.shtml
Website connecting aspiring writers with today's professionals.

Writers University
www.writersuniversity.com/
On-Line classes & critique/consulting services