Neil McGowan is a writer and actor based out of Los Angeles, CA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from West Virginia University. Neil is a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre Writers Group in Venice, CA. His short films Like Old Times and Trip and Sloan, both of which he wrote and stars in, have appeared in film festivals across the country, including the Austin Film Festival. His screenplay Numbered won the Slamdance Screenplay Contest, and was a finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Contest and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Contest. His play Tracks in the Snow won the 2008 Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award and was produced at Northern Michigan University. His play Lone-Anon, produced at award-winning Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles, was named one of the Top Ten plays of 2013 by LA Weekly. He has adapted Lone-Anon to a screenplay called Loners which will be released in 2018.