For award winning feature screenplay DIANA

I have been a fan of Myra Sito Velasquez's energy, insight, spirit and style ever since I met her. I was engaged and deeply moved reading her upcoming well crafted and nuanced DIANA, in which she masterfully captures her characters' surrounding as well as their inner worlds.
- Sabine Hoffman, editor , Personal Velocity, Saving Face, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Myra has written an exceptional screenplay that I very much look forward to seeing come to life on screen. What begins as a new and exciting friendship between two young girls on the brink of womanhood, turns into heartless betrayal. The characters and story are skillfully developed and weaved into a narrative the audience will care deeply about. While I don't want to give away the ending, there is a vital message of emotional healing and hope for anyone going through their first heartbreak.
- Maria Pusateri, Award winning Filmmaker/Actor

DIANA, an engrossing screenplay by Myra Velasquez, tells the story of a young girl's coming of age in the international community of Tokyo in 1972. Her arrival at puberty in the midst of a cruel seduction by a schoolmate, the shock of unexpected blood, her friend's betrayal and abandonment, to her, and to us as observers, is stunning, awesome. Myra Velasquez has delved deeply and wisely into the story of a girl's growing up. Diana has all the makings of an extraordinary and unusual film - I can't wait to see it.
- Florence weintraub, educator & artist

For THE SOLDIER, screenplay-to-multi media theater work in progress

So visual and sensual, a testament to the richness of the writing... Very cool to feel that combination of theater and film as it progressed... It's fantastic! And you have my absolute admiration and gratitude for sharing your brave talent with us tonight!
- Doug Menuez, Award Winning Documentary Photographer & author

Great reading! Really stellar! Such a great story. I can't wait to see this on the stage. So many wonderful physical and video possibilities and puppets and cool choreography! Funny and disturbing and tragic and wow.
- Sandi Carroll, Co-Artistic Director, Mud/Bone

Congratulations on writing a very powerful, beautiful moving play! You have a really wonderful script.. I would LOVE to see the final play!
-Vicki Speegle, Award Winning writer, filmmaker

For SCRIPT CONSULTATION SERVICE

I had been working on my screenplay for over a year when i asked myra for her advice. I was amazed how well Myra understood my script and the problems i had with it! Her comments were insightful, razor sharp incisive and to the point. I feel that the script is now more tightly structured, and my characters so much more clearly defined. I am alot happier with it now!
-Roopinder Bhullar, Winner of the Frida Khalo Award.

I consulted Myra as I was having difficulty understanding the direction of my storyline in my screenplay. Right away, she provided a wealth of suggestions, pointing out also that my characters needed more layers and three dimensional qualities for the storyline to be believable. Myra so kindly reminded me that I have real feelings and real responses and so must these characters. What she said made such an impact not only on me as a writer but also in the way I now approach my characters when acting.
- Cindy Narayan, writer & actor