John Oak Dalton

John Oak Dalton was born in Muncie, Indiana. He earned a bachelors degree in Telecommunications and a masters degree in Information and Communication Sciences from Ball State University. In 1987, he was the first scriptwriter to win a David Letterman Telecommunications Scholarship from Ball State. In 1999, Dalton sold his first screenplay to the direct-to-DVD market and sold more than 40 screenplays over the next 20 years, with more than a dozen becoming films on television, at film festivals, on streaming, or on video store shelves. In 2018 Dalton moved to writer/director with The Girl in the Crawlspace while continuing to write screenplays for other genre directors.