Phil Cousineau
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Phil Cousineau

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PHIL COUSINEAU is the award-winning author of The Wisdom of the Odyssey and over forty other books, including the bestselling The Art of Pilgrimage, The Hero’s Journey, and Once and Future Myths. With more than 40 books and 25 scriptwriting credits to his name, the "omnipresent influence of mythology in modern life" is a thread that runs through all his work. A writer, teacher, filmmaker, storyteller, and cultural historian, Phil has consulted on mythology and story for major studios including Warner Brothers, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. A protege of mythologist Joseph Campbell, Cousineau began his career teaching on Myth and the Movies at the American Film Institute in the 1980s. He has been featured on NPR, CNN International, National Geographic TV and was the host of PBS-TV's Global Spirit for ten years. He has led literary and mythology travel programs to Greece, Ireland, and other culturally rich destinations for four decades. Phil Cousineau lives with his family in North Beach in San Francisco, California. TALKS & CONSULTATIONS: Phil Cousineau has appeared with some of the great thinkers and philosophers of our time, such as mentors Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, and Robert A. Johnson. He lectures frequently on a range of topics that reflect his mythic and scholarly journeys, including mythology, movies, travel, creativity, beauty, and sports. An expert on mythology and film and the "Hero Journey" structure of screenplays, he consults on all types of writing projects. TRAVELS: Phil's fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the "soul of the world." An expert on pilgrimage and meaningful travel, Cousineau leads one or two small group mythological journeys, literary pilgrimages as well as unique international writing retreats, each year. BOOKS & FILMS: Phil Cousineau's additional books include Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo, The Lost Notebooks of Sisyphus, Stoking the Creative Fires, Soul: An Archaeology, Wordcatcher, and The Painted Word, Beyond Forgiveness, Burning the Midnight Oil, The Book of Roads, and The Accidental Aphorist. His books have been translated into more than ten languages; he is a contributor to more than 80 other books. Phil Cousineau's screenwriting credits in documentary films have won more than 25 international awards, including the Academy Award-nominated documentary, Forever Activists. TV & APPEARANCES: Phil Cousineau was co-writer and host of PBS/Link TV's Global Spirit, which Bill Moyers called an "important internal travel series" for ten years. He has also appeared on CNN, Discovery Channel, MLB and NFL Films, and more. He has been featured on Voice of America, PRI's The World, CBC's Tapestry, NPR's 1A Speak Freely, and NPR's Weekend Edition. He has been interviewed for stories in Time and Newsweek as well as The New York Times. He has been a judge for the Emmys, the San Francisco Film Festival, and the PEN-WEST literary awards. Look for his expert commentary and mythic take on film among the special features on several Warner Brothers DVDs, including Major League Legends, the Smithsonian Channel documentary series on baseball's most iconic ballplayers.
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