'Superbad' and 'Knocked Up' collaborator Evan Goldberg is to teach at NUI, Galway as part of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media Writers in Residence Programme.

Knocked Up.

The Hollywood writer and producer, who has also worked on 'Da Ali G Show', will also attend a special public screening of 'Superbad' followed by a question and answer session on Thursday 24 April.

Goldberg's Huston School of Film & Digital Media Residence Programme at NUI, Galway will last until Wednesday 7 May. During that time he will deliver workshops to students on screenwriting, production and direction.

Previous participants in the Writers Residence Programme have included John Huston's son Tony Huston and documentary maker George Stoney. Writer Allegra Huston, daughter of the late John Huston, has also visited the school with her writing salon.

"Together with Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow, Evan Goldberg is part of the new royal family of comedy in Hollywood. Goldberg is writer of Superbad and Executive Producer of Knocked Up, two landmark comedy films that have thrown the mainstream Hollywood comedy rule book out the window. These films out gross the gross-out comedy and yet are inflected with a warmth, humanity and truth that is rare anywhere in mainstream contemporary cinema," said Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI, Galway Rod Stoneman.

Founded in 2003, the Huston School of Film & Digital Media offers a range of one-year postgraduate courses in Film Studies; Screenwriting; Production and Direction; Arts Policy and Practice; Public Advocacy and Activism; and Digital Media. In autumn of 2008, the first undergraduate course offered through the CAO system will come on stream, the BA with Film Studies.

For further information on the public session with Evan Goldberg on Thursday 24 April, or to reserve a place, contact Derval McCormack on 091-495076.