Mary Bannon Mary Bannon received her M.A. in English and Film Studies from the University of Florida, where she studied with Robert Ray and Gregory Ulmer. She has worked in Hollywood as a script reader, an agent's assistant, a videographer, and a script consultant, and she was a Director's Assistant on the 1993 cult film and Halloween perennial, Leprechaun. She has taught English, Film Studies and Screenwriting at the University of Florida, Los Angeles City College, and Santa Monica College, and she is currently Lecturer in Communications and English at Susquehanna University.