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{{Infobox person
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1984|02|16}}
| birth_place    = [[Perth, Western Australia]]
| death_date     =
| death_place    =
| othername     = Alexander Bennett
| yearsactive   = 2004–current
| spouse        = Morgan Lee Moran
| website       = http://screenwritingtips.blcklst.com/
| occupation    = Screenwriter, author
}}

'''Xander Bennett''' (born 16 February 1984)<ref name="AS1">[http://adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-xander-bennett.html Interview - Adelaide Screenwriter]</ref> is an [[Australia]]n [[screenwriter]] and [[author]]. He is a former [[Hollywood]] [[script reader]],<ref name="AS1" /> and a resident of [[Los Angeles]]. Bennett is best known for his laconic advice about the practice of screenwriting, shared daily in a blog called '''Screenwriting Tips... You Hack''',<ref name="blklst" /> and for a book of the same name.<ref name="book1">[http://www.focalpress.com/books/film_and_video/screenwriting_tips_you_hack.aspx ''Screenwriting tips, you hack''] {{wayback|url=http://www.focalpress.com/books/film_and_video/screenwriting_tips_you_hack.aspx |date=20120106054142 |df=y }} Focal Press</ref>

==Early life==
Bennett was born and grew up in [[Perth, Western Australia]].<ref name="AS1" /> He is the son of Martin and Rebecca Bennett, and the eldest of three boys.<ref name="AS1" />

He earned a Bachelor of Film and Television<ref>[http://www.bond.edu.au/degrees-and-courses/undergraduate-degrees/list/bachelor-of-film-and-television/index.htm?&fos=Film%20-and-%20Television&cl=Your%20Degree Bachelor of Film & Television] {{wayback|url=http://www.bond.edu.au/degrees-and-courses/undergraduate-degrees/list/bachelor-of-film-and-television/index.htm?&fos=Film%20-and-%20Television&cl=Your%20Degree |date=20120406215925 |df=y }} Bond University</ref> at [[Bond University]]<ref>[http://bond.edu.au/about-bond/introducing-bond/student-and-alumni-profiles/communication-and-media-studies/xander-bennett/index.htm Bond University], Xander Bennett</ref> in [[Queensland, Australia]] in 2004, then attended the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], where he completed a Professional Program in Producing<ref>[http://www.filmprograms.ucla.edu/index_pr.cfm?action=pr_ppp&side=pr Professional Program in Producing] {{wayback|url=http://www.filmprograms.ucla.edu/index_pr.cfm?action=pr_ppp&side=pr |date=20100810204012 |df=y }} UCLA</ref> in 2009.

==Career==
Bennett has written for television, videogames, role-playing games, and comics, and is the author of a graphic novel. He has written a series of blogs, culminating in the one which made him famous, ''Screenwriting Tips... You Hack'', on which he has published a screenwriting tip a day since June 2009.

(contracted; show full)
Bennett's first job as a writer was on the Australian animated children's show [[FARMkids]]<ref name="AS1" /><ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024886/ IMDB] FARMkids</ref> in 2005.

During 2010-2011, he worked under contract for Australia's [[Shine Limited|Shine Television Studios]].<ref name="blklst">[http://blog.blcklst.com/2011/09/please-welcome-xander-bennett-and-screenwriting-tips-you-hack/ Xander Bennett joins The Black List]
 {{wayback|url=http://blog.blcklst.com/2011/09/please-welcome-xander-bennett-and-screenwriting-tips-you-hack/ |date=20111101082527 |df=y }}</ref> His work included post-production on [[Dating in the Dark (Australian TV series)|Dating in the Dark]], [[The Biggest Loser (Australian TV series)|The Biggest Loser]] and [[Australia's Next Top Model]].

===Graphic novel===
(contracted; show full)
==Personal life==
Bennett is married to Megan Lee Moran (2014-).

==See also==
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-xander-bennett.html Adelaide Screenwriter], 15 January 2012
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://www.indiewire.com/article/meet_the_hack_behind_screenwriting_tips..._you_hack IndieWire], 24 October 2011.
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://
web.archive.org/web/20120116061502/http://www.whatevercomics.com:80/#/xander-bennett/4528876465 Whatever Comics], undated.
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://web.archive.org/web/20111231012655/http://stealmyscript.com:80/interview-with-xander-bennet-author-of-screen Steal My Script], 13 October 2011.
* Xander Bennett at [http://masteringfilm.com/author/xander-bennett/Mastering Film.Com]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

==References==
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==External links==
* Xander Bennett on [http://web.archive.org/web/20120120162536/http://comicspace.com:80/members/xander ComicSpace]
* Xander Bennett on [https://plus.google.com/106687889061686780887/about Google +]
* [http://screenwritingtips.blcklst.com/ Screenwriting Tips... You Hack] The Blacklist
* [http://hacknotes.net/ Hack Notes]

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[[Category:UCLA Film School alumni]]
[[Category:Bond University alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Perth, Western Australia]]
[[Category:Australian screenwriters]]
[[Category:21st-century Australian writers]]