BIOGRAPHY

Judith Searle has had a successful double career as an actress and a writer. Her theatrical résumé includes credits on and off Broadway, in stock and regional theaters, feature films, primetime and daytime television, commercials, and voice-overs.

She is the author of four books: The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out (Metamorphous Press, 2001); Getting the Part: Thirty-three Professional Casting Directors Tell You How to Get Work in Theater, Films, Commercials, and TV (currently available in a revised expanded edition from Limelight Editions); Lovelife, a novel published by NAL Books; and In the
Teeth of Time: Poems 1971-2004 (Conflu:x Press, 2005).  Her articles on theater and the entertainment industry have appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and The Drama Review. Her television writing includes scripts for "General Hospital" and "Reading Newspapers," a 30-program series she created for public television.  She has conducted writing workshops at UCLA, the University of California Irvine and New School University in New York City.

A graduate of Wellesley College, she holds a Master of Education degree from Harvard University.

An acknowledged expert on the Enneagram, she has published many articles in Enneagram Monthly, the premier journal in the field, including "The Latitude and Longitude of Enneagram Fixations," "Sexuality, Gender Roles and the Enneagram," "The Four-Point-On Theory and a Six Organization in Distress," "Jottings from a One's Journal," "Three Culture Meets Six Culture: A Hollywood Story," "Riso/Hudson Part I Training," a review of the 1996 edition of Personality Types by Don Riso with Russ Hudson, "From Passion to Virtue with Claudio Naranjo," "The Gap at the Bottom of the Enneagram," "Literary Exemplars: Scarlett O'Hara as a Three," "Story Genres and Enneagram Types," and "A Poet Views Her Work Through the Lens of the Enneagram." Some of these are available in the "Articles" section on this site.

She is a former Board member of the International Enneagram Association and former Chair of IEA's Southern California Chapter. She was Co-Chair of the 2003 International Enneagram Conference, held in Santa Monica, California.

In 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 she made presentations to the International Enneagram Conference on "Story Genres and Enneagram Types," "The Enneagram from the Inside: Literary Examples of the Nine Types,"  "Shakespeare and the Enneagram," "Enneatype Casting in Films," "Teaching and Learning the Enneagram through Films and Literature" and "The Transformation of Hamlet." At the 2004 Conference she moderated a panel on "Enneagram Perspectives on the 2004 American Political Scene." 

She has introduced the Enneagram to the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America (east & west), R.A.I. (the Italian State Radio and Television Network), Women in Film, Women in Theatre, the PILOTS Screenwriting Conference (sponsored by the European Union), the UC Irvine Creative Writing Conference, the International Women's Writing Guild Conference, and the Southern California Mediation Association Conference. 

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