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PAUL PROCH – CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1. WRITING
CO-WRITER, with Jeffrey Grimshaw and Academy Award winner Michel Gondry, of The We and
the I (2009 – 2011), a feature film directed by Michel Gondry. Chosen to open the Director’s Fortnight
at Cannes, 2012. Winner of the International Critics Prize at the Deauville [France] American Film
Festival. Official selection of festivals around the world, including the Lincoln Center Film Comment
Selects Film Festival, Moscow, Rio, Toronto, Perth, Amsterdam, London, Stockholm, Mumbai, Leiden,
etc.
ARTIST for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind directed by Academy Award winner Michel Gondry
and written by Academy Award winner Charlie Kaufman (2002 – 2004).
COPY EDITOR / PROOFREADER of a book (not yet titled) by Academy Award winner Michel
Gondry (2009).
In 1992, the head writer for David Letterman wanted to hire me as a writer, but Letterman decided my
material, which was tailored for Letterman’s NBC show, wasn’t suited for the new CBS show.
WRITER (with Academy Award winner Charlie Kaufman):
• REGULAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER for National Lampoon Magazine (1982 – 1990).
• WRITER for Cracked Magazine (1987 – 1989).
• WRITER of two books (unpublished), and EDITOR for Meadowbrook Press (1989).
• WRITER of The Fat Zip, a full-length three-act play [staged reading at the Meat and Potatoes
Theatre Company in NYC (1984) and full production at the Broom Street Theater in Madison,
WI (1988)].
• HONORABLE MENTIONS for stories submitted to the Ernest Hemingway National Short Story
Competition (1984 and 1985).
• WRITER of “The Buddie Chuckie Cough Telethon,” a half-hour comedy produced by WNYC-
TV (1980).
• WRITER of “Fanzine,” a science fiction comedy pilot (unproduced) for Starlog Magazine (1984).
• WRITER of Purely Coincidental, a screenplay (unproduced).
• WRITER of Clutched Temples, a screenplay (unproduced).
• WRITER of The Lost Comb, a one-act play (unproduced).
SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR / WRITER, Rubber Chicken, a humor magazine (1993 – 1995).
MANAGING EDITOR / SENIOR EDITOR / WRITER / ARTIST for High Society Magazine and
LIVE! Magazine (1989 – 1992). Also Contributing Editor for Cheri Magazine and Swimsuit
International Magazine. Associate Editor, Revolution Magazine.
REGULAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER AND ARTIST for CHUM , a literary quarterly (2011 – 2012).
WRITER of features for weekly newspapers for Resident Publications (1996 – 1997).
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COPY EDITOR / PROOFREADER of research grants and Tuberculosis, a textbook published by Little,
Brown & Co. / NYU Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine (1995).

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WRITER / EDITOR for Gutter Trash Magazine (1992 – 1996).
COPYWRITER / COPY EDITOR for Lens Express, Inc. (1991 – 1994).
WRITER of Origins of Legless Animals, a narrative dance for the Non-Canonical Ensemble (1983).
WRITER of “Mondo Typpo (sic),” a humorous science fiction story for the “Village Voice” (1981).
WRITER AND RESEARCHER for the “Channel Thirteen Auction” on WNET-TV (1979).
2. ART & MISCELLANEOUS FILM
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS: Two-person show at Greenpoint Gallery (NYC). Group shows at De
Media Gallery (Eeklo, Belgium), DIA Foundation Gallery (NYC), Brand Name Damages Gallery
(NYC), Washington Square Gallery (NYC).
CONTRIBUTING ARTIST: Art Police Magazine(Minneapolis) [inthe permanent collections of the Museum
of Modern Art Library, the SmithsonianNationalPortrait GalleryLibrary, Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis
Institure of Arts, and the Minnesota HistoryCenter]; Gutter Trash Magazine(NYC).
ARTIST for The Eve, a feature film (2011).
ARTIST for Head Sweet Home, a short film produced by Aborted Films (2007).
COVER ART AND INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS for the books The Custom Neon Sign Shop (2004)
and Chthulhu’s Back in Town, both published by Bone World Publishing (2002).
COVER ART AND INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION for the book Wing Ding at Uncle Tug’s, published
by Greenbean Press (2001).
PRE-PRODUCTION ART AND DESIGN for The Handyman, a feature horror film (unproduced),
Homage Films (1985).
PRE-PRODUCTION ART AND DESIGN for Beast, a feature horror film; POSTER ART AND
DESIGN for Marie, a feature horror film; Grand Central Pictures (1981).
ASSISTANT FILM EDITOR / PRODUCTION ASSISTANT for Magi Communications (1979 – 1981).
PROP MASTER for The Maidservant, a feature film produced by Analog Productions (1979).
PREPARATION AND SHOOTING OF TITLES for short documentary film produced by Stanley
Burns Productions (1979).
ANIMATED FILMS: “The Uncle Floyd Show” (WTVG-TV, 1978-1980); “Frame by Frame” (WNYC-
TV, 1979); “The Energy Conservation Project” (Steve Jones Productions, 1979).