With more than a dozen national commercial campaigns including Mountain Dew, Pepsi, McDonalds, Wrigley’s, Hasbro, and Mitsubishi under his belt and appearances on popular T.V. shows like The Shield, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Diagnosis Murder, VIP, and Fastlane, Corey Blake put an end to his lucrative commercial and television acting career to pursue his passion for writing. In 2000, he founded Elevation 9000 Films and went on to spearhead the original Elevation 9000 Film Lab that eventually inspired the motion picture production company LA Film Lab Entertainment and Writers of the Round Table Inc.
For the past eight years, Corey Blake has played a key role in the development of more than three hundred screenplays and manuscripts. He has won nine festival awards for his work in entertainment and contributed articles to nearly three dozen industry publications including Script Magazine, Writer Magazine (cover article), and the Los Angeles Journal. Corey Blake’s work as a writer and development producer has been featured on Fox News and in articles in Backstage West, MovieMaker Magazine, Hollywood Scriptwriter Magazine and Dance Magazine. He has been invited to speak at the Missouri Writers Guild, the Society of Southwestern Authors 36th annual Wrangling With Writing Conference, Midwest Literary Festival, Screenwriting Expo 4 at the LA Convention Center, the Virginia State Reading Association Conference, and the Spring into Romance Writing Conference.
Corey’s name is attached as the author or co-author to twelve projects for release in 2008 and 2009 including fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. He co-authored Edge! A Leadership Story with Bea Fields and Eva Silva (May 2008), and told Robert Renteria’s From the Barrio to the Board Room (January 2008).
Corey is proudly married to Dr. Dawn Blake, a Psychologist. They make their home in the suburbs of Chicago and Corey travels frequently back to Los Angeles.
Contact: corey@writersoftheroundtable.com

