J Barrick Griffiths

J. BARRICK GRIFFITHS, co-writer of the award-winning screenplay “ONE MORE MOUNTAIN “ (WINNER – Feature Screenplay in Hollywood Jumbo Screenwriting Festival – 2020), is the writer of unproduced screenplays “SIMON SAYS” (WINNER – Chicago Script Awards – Best Thriller – 2022, and Official Selection in Brazil International Film Festival – 2022); and “FRAMED: The Terry Farmer Murder” (WINNER – Best Script Awards - London 2023 - Best American Screenplay) He is most noted for his work as a music copyist, orchestrator, and arranger for Barry Manilow for over 25 years, having worked on 20 albums together. He is credited under the pen name Jonathan Barrick as one of the three arrangers on the worldwide televised special “Michael Jackson’s 30th Anniversary Celebration” and as J. Barrick Griffiths for Mark Anthony’s HBO special, “The Concert at Madison Square Garden.” As a copyist, his work has been performed by international artists, including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Henry Mancini, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, and Amy Grant. His arrangements have been performed by Tony Bennett, Whitney Houston, Peggy Lee, and Mel Tormé, among many others. Applying the same discipline that has carried him more than three decades in the highly competitive music industry, he now spends hours each day on another love of the arts, writing screenplays and novels. He has written 5 screenplays and 3 accompanying novels based on his Chase MacRae detective series and has written 17 screenplays total since 2016, including 3 screenplays ghost written for other writers. *(THE VOICE consists of a screenplay and an accompanying novel.)