EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America East has a brand new class of Showrunner Academy graduates.
The 2024 class contains Radha Clean, Eleanor Burgess, Dominic Colón, Grainger David, Gerry de Leon, Kate Erickson, Gina Gionfriddo, Eliot Glazer, Eric Anthony Glover, Leah Gotcsik, Joseph Hampton, Christina Kallas, Nambi E. Kelley, Greg Lisi, Ted Malawer, Tim Mason, M Raven Metzner, Nathan Min, Adam Whitney Nichols, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, Charlie Oh, Celeste Parr, Jacquelyn Reingold, Dan Perlman, Katie Wealthy, Zach Smilovitz, Lauren Ashley Smith, Iturri Sosa, Jim Strouse and Mfoniso Udofia.
The WGAE‘s Showrunner Academy is a coaching program that’s designed for upper-level writers to hone their abilities “to grow to be profitable showrunners and leaders in at this time’s tv business.”
The Academy can be “particular to the distinctive panorama and wishes of the East Coast” within the instruction that it gives.
The complete record of graduates and their bios are under.
Radha Clean is a Director, Playwright, TV Author, Performer and proud Native New Yorker who The New York Instances has hailed as a ‘sensible filmmaker’. Clean’s first characteristic movie, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION, was one of the acclaimed debuts of 2020 for which she was awarded The Sundance Movie Pageant’s U.S. Dramatic Directing Award, The Sundance Vanguard Award and The Nationwide Board of Evaluation’s Highlight Award. The movie was positioned on NBR’s extremely regarded High Movies of 2020 record and in addition positioned Radha on Selection’s “10 Administrators to Watch” record that very same 12 months. Then in 2021, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION garnered The Gotham Awards’ Greatest Screenplay Award, The NAACP Picture Award for Greatest Writing in a Movement Image, The New York Movie Critics Circle’s Greatest First Movie, The Toronto Movie Critics Award for Greatest First Movie, The Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation’s New Era Award, The Black Movie Critics Circle’s Rising Star Award, The African American Movie Critics Affiliation’s Award for Breakout Efficiency and The San Diego Movie Critics Society’s Awards for each Breakthrough Artist and Greatest Comedic Efficiency. Distinguished nominations for TTHE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION included The DGA’s 2021 Excellent Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Function Movie Director, The 2021 BAFTAs Main Actress Award and The 2021 Unbiased Spirit Award for Greatest First Movie. In 2021, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION additionally made its New York Metropolis 35mm debut at The Paris Theater the place Radha made historical past as the primary Black Lady director showcased within the cinema home’s 75-year historical past. Radha has had success on the planet of theater and tv as nicely. A Helen Merrill Playwriting Award recipient, Radha’s acclaimed play Seed was deemed “recent, full of life…and poetic” by The Huffington Put up. And her tv writing credit embody hit exhibits EMPIRE (Fox) and SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT (Netflix). In 2022, alongside luminary administrators, Martin Scorsese, Tom Ford, Chloe Zhao and Julie Sprint, Radha was invited by The Met Costume Institute to reimagine considered one of its interval rooms for the ‘In America’ exhibit. Radha’s unique piece ‘We Good. Thx!’ integrated a 16-foot lengthy braided wig as a signifier of Black Girls as often-missing contributors to American tradition. The piece gained essential acclaim and marked Radha’s foray into the tremendous arts world. When not writing for the stage and display, Radha performs as RadhaMUSprime, whose model of truth-telling, Hip-Hop comedy has bought out exhibits from New York to Norway.
Eleanor Burgess has labored on PERRY MASON for HBO, WECRASHED for Apple TV+, and INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE for AMC, and developed pilots for FX and the CW. She has additionally written characteristic screenplays for Dangerous Robotic, Amblin, Nameless Content material, Netflix, and Common. Her performs, together with The Niceties, Spouse of a Salesman, and Galilee 34, have been produced at theaters throughout the US, together with Manhattan Theatre Membership, Geffen Playhouse, and South Coast Rep. Initially from Massachusetts, she studied historical past at Yale Faculty and Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch.
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu is a New York-based author for stage and display. Her work for the display contains penning Episode 6 of Spike Lee’s SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT, SEASON TOO! for Netflix — “#WhenYourChickensComeHomeToRoost.” She is growing a pilot with Fifth Season (exec producer, Layne Eskridge). Antoinette’s stage productions embody: Vanna White Has Bought to Die! (Fireplace This Time Pageant, NYC. 2013); Black Boy & The Battle (The Motion Theater Firm, NYC. 2015); and Breach: a manifesto on race in America by means of the eyes of a Black woman recovering from self-hate (Victory Gardens, Chicago. 2019). In August 2021, Antoinette’s play Go Over re-opened on Broadway on the August Wilson Theater after a number of critically acclaimed productions, together with its World Premiere at Steppenwolf in Chicago (2017); its New York Premiere at Lincoln Middle’s LCT3 (2018); and its worldwide premiere on the Kiln Theatre in London (2020). Antoinette is a MacDowell Fellow; an Ars Nova Play Group alum; a Dramatists Guild Fellow; and a Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Convention Literary Fellow. She’s received a Lilly Award; a Lucille Lortel Award; the Whiting Award; the Samuel French Subsequent Step Award; the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award; the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award; & the Negro Ensemble Firm’s solely Douglas Turner Ward Prize. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Theater Lab, Area on Ryder Farm, Ignition Fest, and the Cherry Lane Mentor Challenge amongst others. She holds an AB in English Literature & Languages from Harvard Faculty (magna cum laude); an MSc from The College of Edinburgh, Scotland; and an MFA from the Division of Dramatic Writing, NYU Tisch.
Dominic Colón is an award-winning author, actor and director from the Bronx, New York. Dominic’s performs have been developed by Atlantic Theater Firm, LAByrinth Theater Firm, Latinx Playwrights Circle, The SOL Challenge and The Nationwide Queer Theater. Chosen performs embody The Empty Area or White Folks Smash Every part (Finalist for the Relentless Award Picket Performs), Prospect Avenue or the Miseducation of Juni Rodriguez (EST Marathon & MTA Performs for Rattlestick Theater) and The Message (48 Hour Performs/Harlem 9), WHERE’S OUR ANGELS? (NATIONAL QUEER THEATER). Dominic’s play The Battle I Know was the recipient of the inaugural WRITE-IT-OUT Prize. a money prize given to a playwright dwelling with HIV, sponsored by the Nationwide Queer Theater, playwright Donja R. Love, GLAAD, and the legendary Billy Porter. The Battle I Know is the primary in a trilogy of performs exploring the impression of HIV on the Latinx neighborhood within the Bronx from the late 80’s by means of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dominic’s tv pilot PAPI, made THE BLACKLIST’s inaugural LATINX TV LIST, a curated record of the ten most promising pilots created by Latinx Writers. As one of many high three finalists Dominic obtained a blind pilot deal at HULU. Dominic wrote the episode”Our Woman of the Six Prepare” for the GLAAD NOMINATED Queer Latinx scripted podcast anthology, LOVE IN GRAVITY. He’s a author on the upcoming Netflix sequence, PINK MARINE, produced by tv icon Norman Lear. Dominic is the co-writer/co-creator (alongside Emmy Award nominee Steven Canals) of BRONX GRACE, a one-hour medical drama being produced by Common Tv Studios for ABC. Dominic is working with Kenya Barris to because the co-writer/creator of the tv adaptation of Fats Joe’s memoir THE BOOK OF JOSE for BET Studios
Grainger David‘s quick movie THE CHAIR screened in competitors for the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Pageant, received the Jury Prize at SXSW, the Jury Prize on the Los Angeles Movie Pageant, Greatest Director at Hollyshorts and went on to play at main festivals all over the world together with Berlin and Telluride. A South Carolina native and graduate of Princeton College and NYU Grad Movie, Grainger has obtained beneficiant help for his work from the San Francisco Movie Society, the Sloan Basis and The MacDowell Colony. He has directed tv commercials for Nike and the NFL and his characteristic script THE WALL AT THE END OF THE ROAD was chosen for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the Sundance Administrators Lab. Most lately, he created and is an Govt Producer on THE BONDSMAN, starring Kevin Bacon, which is in post-production and can be launched in 2025 on Amazon Prime. Grainger is represented at Grandview.
Kate Erickson is a tv author who has written for hour-long exhibits starting from historic to apocalyptic, together with FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, MR. ROBOT, SEE and HEELS. She received a Writers Guild Award for MR. ROBOT. Previous to working in TV, she produced reside storytelling for The Moth, served espresso, crewed a Beneteau sloop, nannied, drove a produce supply truck, ran a neighborhood heart’s after college program and volunteered extensively for 826NYC. All through each chapters, she has written private essays and fiction, which seem in varied publications together with The New York Instances, The Christian Science Monitor, Wellesley Journal and Narrative Journal. She is represented by CAA and Grandview.
Gina Gionfriddo is a two-time Pulitzer finalist for her performs “Becky Shaw” and “Rapture, Blister, Burn.” She has written for the tv exhibits COLD CASE, LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, LAW & ORDER: TRUE CRIME, FBI: MOST WANTED, HOUSE OF CARDS, BORGIA and THE ALIENIST. She has developed two options for HBO and pilots for CBS and Wiip.
Eliot Glazer is a author and comic greatest identified for his work each on display and behind the scenes of the Comedy Central sequence BROAD CITY. He most lately served as Co-Govt Producer on iCARLY (Paramount+) and has written for, amongst others, NEW GIRL, THE BOYS and YOUNGER. He could be seen reverse Seth Rogen within the movie AMERICAN PICKLE, HGTV’s HOUSE HUNTERS: COMEDIANS ON COUCHES and alongside Rachel Bloom on Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s Netflix particular LADIES NIGHT LIVE. Eliot is creator/host of the Comedy Central Digital sequence 2 JEWS CHOOSE and producer/co-host of the LGBTQ comedy podcast YOU’RE MAKING IT WORSE. He incessantly seems as a visitor on The Howard Stern Wrap Up Present and has contributed to Vulture, BuzzFeed and The AV Membership. Moreover, Eliot created, developed and starred reverse Colton Haynes (TEEN WOLF, ARROW) within the AMC Studio unique half-hour comedy I RUN HOT for Peacock, directed by his sister Ilana. His first e book of unique essays, printed by Simon & Schuster, can be launched in 2026.
Eric Anthony Glover is a characteristic author, TV author, and graphic novelist. He was an Govt Story Editor on STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY and he wrote as a Employees Author and Story Editor on The CW’s TOM SWIFT. Eric studied screenwriting at Sarah Lawrence Faculty. After his sci-fi characteristic script earned him a fellowship by means of Last Draft’s 2016 Massive Break Screenwriting Contest, Eric went on to write down his first drama pilot, which earned him illustration. Moreover, Eric was chosen for the 2020 Humanitas Prize New Voices award, NBC’s Writers on the Verge 2020-21 fellowship, the 2021 Sony Photos Tv Numerous Writers Program and the 2021 WarnerMedia Entry Writers Program. As a author for the humanities and leisure firm Meow Wolf, Eric developed storylines and wrote scripts for immersive science fiction reveals throughout the nation. His graphic novel, Black Star, was printed in 2021 as a title in Abrams ComicArts’ imprint, Megascope, and he’s written digital comics for InterPop’s “Emergents” superhero universe. He’s managed by Echo Lake Leisure and represented by the Tradition Artistic Leisure company.
Leah Gotcsik is an Emmy-nominated author and present EP on THE TINY CHEF SHOW for Nickelodeon. She has labored throughout networks and streamers for exhibits like SUPERKITTIES, ODD SQUAD, BUBBLE GUPPIES and DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD, and has originals in growth at Netflix and Nickelodeon. With a background in improv and sketch comedy (ask her about her balmy cruise ship days!), Leah loves to inform character-forward tales with humor, excessive stakes and coronary heart.
Joseph Hampton is a author/producer for tv and movie. He has been a author/story editor on over 400 episodes of community tv and written a number of characteristic movies. Arriving in Atlanta within the mid-2000s following movie college at USC Los Angeles, he was a part of the wave of filmmakers who helped flip Atlanta into the leisure powerhouse it’s at this time. Since his time as Govt Producer and Head of Content material Improvement at Areu Bros. Studios, he has developed a number of tv & movie tasks and is at the moment in pre-production on two sequence with companions in Atlanta and LA in addition to a characteristic western drama with producer James Keach.
Christina Kallas is among the few ladies writer-directors with three characteristic movies below her belt actively working at this time. Having began out as a musician and lived in a number of nations and continents, Kallas’s background profoundly influences her filmmaking strategy. A two-time Berlinale and Slamdance alumna, she has made her mark because the writer-director of critically acclaimed groundbreaking movies PARIS IS IN HARLEM (2023), THE RAINBOW EXPERIMENT (2018), and 42 SECONDS OF HAPPINESS (2016), and because the writer-producer of the Golden Berlin Bear-nominated political thriller, THE COMMISSIONER, starring John Harm. PARIS IS IN HARLEM premiered at Slamdance and Galway in 2022, receiving rave evaluations and an ideal RT rating. At present touring worldwide festivals, it has additionally been featured on airways like Emirates and Qatar Airways. THE RAINBOW EXPERIMENT was lauded as a ‘twenty first Century Rashomon’ and was picked up by Paramount+ after its worldwide debut on the Moscow Worldwide Movie Pageant and the FIRST Worldwide FF in China. In 2019, Kallas was nominated by a panel of 30 worldwide movie critics for Greatest Director in Movie Risk’s and Comedy Central’s inaugural Award This! initiative, alongside Debra Granik, Josephine Decker, Chloe Zhao, Mimi Leder, Boots Riley, Bo Burnham, Alex Garland, Ali Abassi, and Paul Dano. Kallas served as President of the European Writers Guild equal, FSE, for eight years and is a voting member of the European Movie Academy. Prior credit embody BBC Movies’ hooligan drama, I.D. and European TV sequence hits, EDEL&STARCK and DANNI LOWINSKI. Holding a PhD in movie research, Kallas has taught screenwriting and directing at Columbia, NYU, Feirstein, and the DFFB. She can be a mentor for the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Biennale Faculty Cinema and the writer of books comparable to ‘Artistic Screenwriting: Understanding Emotional Construction’ and ‘Contained in the Writers Room.’
Nambi E. Kelley served as a author/co-producer on Peacock’s BEL AIR. Earlier tv credit embody: LADY IN THE LAKE (Apple), OUR KIND OF PEOPLE (Fox), and THE CHI (Showtime). Nambi can be in growth for tv with a number of tasks together with a undertaking government produced by award profitable rapper, Nas, TBA. Nambi’s newly fashioned manufacturing firm, First Lady, lately produced a movie model and two in-person nationwide excursions of Nambi’s younger audiences’ play, Jabari Desires of Freedom, profitable the Black Panther Worldwide Movie Pageant in India, and The IBDFF Worldwide Movie Pageant in Toronto (Greatest Children Movie). Additionally an completed playwright, Nambi is growing a number of tasks for Broadway. She obtained The Prince Prize to develop a play primarily based on the lifetime of Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture, which premiered in Chicago at Courtroom Theatre this spring. Her play Re-Memori was introduced at WP’s Pipeline Pageant in New York Metropolis and lately celebrated a world premiere at Penumbra Theatre Firm in St. Paul. Nambi was chosen by Toni Morrison to adapt her novel Jazz. Her adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son (Sam French, Harmony Theatricals), has been produced all around the nation and premiered in New York at The Duke on forty second Avenue (The Appearing Firm, producer).
Greg Lisi & Gerry de Leon met on the American Movie Institute Conservatory the place they each graduated in 2010. Greg has created and bought TV tasks to HBO, Hulu, CBS and Sony TV. Gerry has labored in varied developmental points for Scott Rudin, Hilary Swank, Terrence Malick and Walter Salles. They lately bought a restricted sequence to Peacock titled JOHN-JOHN, primarily based on the lifetime of John F. Kennedy Jr. Oscar-nominated Jayne-Ann Tenggren (1917) is producing with Michael Engler connected to direct, and Theo James connected to play John. They’re additionally growing a restricted sequence about celebrated cinematographer, James Wong Howe, with Walter Salles and Jon M. Chu connected to direct and Doubtless Story producing. Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan is connected to play Howe.
Ted Malawer is a playwright and screenwriter from New York. He co-wrote Prime Video’s RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE, which debuted at #1 on the streamer and obtained a 2024 Emmy nomination for Excellent Tv Film. Ted was most lately a Co-Govt Producer on AMERICAN RUST: BROKEN JUSTICE and LAW & ORDER; further TV credit embody RISE and HALSTON, developmental rooms for Hulu and Showtime, together with WGA and Astra nominations. His musical ONLY GOLD had its world premiere at MCC Theater (Outer Critics Circle and Off-Broadway Alliance nominations, Excellent Musical), and his performs have been produced and developed by Atlantic Theater Firm, NYTW, Capital Stage, Magic Theatre, Palm Seashore Dramaworks, and extra. For iHeart Podcasts, Ted created the sequence DOES THIS MURDER MAKE ME LOOK GAY?!, a PEOPLE’s Decide and T Listing/New York Instances advice. He has written 5 YA novels with Penguin Random Home, and co-created the #1 New York Instances bestselling sequence FALLEN. Ted has obtained awards from Lincoln Middle, The Kennedy Middle, and the Nationwide Basis for Development within the Arts. He’s a graduate of Columbia College and The Juilliard Faculty, the place he studied in each the Vocal Arts and Playwriting divisions.
Tim Mason was a member of The Second Metropolis Touring Firm in addition to a resident performer on The Second Metropolis .e.t.c. stage and The Second Metropolis Mainstage. He’s additionally a screenwriter, filmmaker and director and was the Co-creator, Showrunner and Director for the Showtime sequence, WORK IN PROGRESS.
M Raven Metzner is a screenwriter who served as Showrunner and EP on Season Two of Marvel’s IRON FIST on Netflix, EP on Fox’s supernatural procedural SLEEPY HOLLOW, Consulting Producer on Fox’s NeXt and Disney+’s BIG SHOT whereas on an total at ABC Studios and most lately was a Consulting Producer on the ultimate season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Raven was co-creator and Govt Producer of the ABC’s SIX DEGREES, EP/Showrunner on the Hub community’s adaptation of Hasbro’s CLUE and Consulting Producer on TNT’s FALLING SKIES, ABC’s WHAT ABOUT BRIAN and NBC’s HEROES REBORN. Raven has additionally co-written numerous characteristic screenplays together with ELEKTRA and DEATHLOK for Marvel Comics Studios.Raven is at the moment growing numerous tasks together with an adaptation Disney’s MAIN STREET, USA attraction for D+ and the ORACLE audio e book sequence for Amazon.
Nathan Min is a author, actor, and comic primarily based in New York Metropolis. He began performing get up comedy as a freshman at Johns Hopkins College and went on to win the DC Improv’s Funniest Faculty Stand Up competitors on the finish of his senior 12 months. He was chosen as a finalist for the tenth annual Andy Kaufman Award. At present, he’s growing a half-hour comedy primarily based on his life with A24 and Celadon Photos. He has beforehand written for TEN YEAR OLD TOM, JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU and THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON.
Adam Whitney Nichols is a author who lives in rural Vermont. Adam’s latest tv pilot, which he wrote with Brian Chamberlayne, is an hour-long drama that takes place in Nineteen Nineties Washington, DC, and is in growth at FX with Layne Eskridge producing. He lately labored with Danish filmmaker Elvira Lind to write down a feature-length movie for Mad Gene Media—Elvira Lind and Oscar Isaac’s manufacturing firm. Along with FX, Adam has written pilots for HBO and MAX and developed content material for Fifth Season, POV Leisure, Tomorrow Studios, and Danny DeVito’s Jersey Movies 2nd Avenue. He was the story editor for the award-winning podcast Sandcastles, and his unique pilot script, LONESOME VALLEY, was a finalist for the Humanitas New Voices Award. Earlier than working as a screenwriter, Adam wrote for magazines and was Director of Media at Visionaire, the place he produced A PORTRAIT OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC, which screened in competitors on the Sundance Movie Pageant and the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. Adam attended Sarah Lawrence Faculty and, after graduating, moved to New York Metropolis on the suggestion of Patti Smith, who grew to become his mentor and whom he credit for his first classes in storytelling. Adam is repped by Cullen Conly at Nameless Content material.
Charlie Oh’s performs embody Lengthy (Kennedy Middle’s Paula Vogel Award in playwriting, Mark Twain Prize, Relentless Award Honors), Coleman ‘72 (world premiere South Coast Rep, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, Los Angeles Drama Circle Award nominee), White Monkey (Goodman New Phases, Future Labs), and The Disruptors (Sloan Fee). Charlie is a Core Author on the Playwrights’ Middle, and a member, previous fellow, or alumni of Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood, Ars Nova Play Group, Web page 73’s Writers Group, The Lark, and the Catwalk Author’s Residency, amongst others. His work has been developed at Manhattan Theatre Membership, South Coast Rep, The Lark, Second Stage, The American Musical Theatre Challenge, The Goodman, and extra. He at the moment holds commissions from Manhattan Theater Membership + the Alfred P. Sloan Basis, South Coast Rep, and is growing tasks for tv with Amazon Studios and Common Studios. He’s a latest graduate of The Juilliard Faculty’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.
Celeste Parr was most lately a Author and Govt Producer for Season Two of CBC’s anthology sequence PLAN B. She has three unique drama sequence in lively growth at three completely different broadcasters/streamers each in Canada and internationally. Celeste additionally works in options, writing the upcoming WWII musical drama ETHEL, which shoots in autumn 2024 with Shira Haas, Sarah Paulson and Whitney Peak starring.
Dan Perlman is a comic, author and director from New York Metropolis. He co-created, wrote, and starred in Showtime’s critically-acclaimed comedy sequence, FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS. Dan made his directorial debut within the FLATBUSH episode, “boomerang,” which Vulture praised for its “masterful route.” Dan additionally wrote and directed the award-winning quick movies, CRAMMING and PRACTICE SPACE. Dan first co-created the prize-winning digital sequence of FLATBUSH, which served as the inspiration for the Showtime present. Made on zero-budget, the primary installment grew to become Oscar-qualified after profitable Grand Jury Awards in its movie competition run. As a stand-up, Dan has been featured on Comedy Central and has headlined venues throughout the nation, together with The Kennedy Middle in DC. Dan is an everyday on the Comedy Cellar in NYC. His writing has additionally appeared in The New Yorker.
Katie Wealthy is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody award-winning author, actor and producer who attended Northwestern College earlier than becoming a member of Chicago’s Second Metropolis. There, she wrote and starred in three Mainstage evaluations, together with the critically acclaimed South Facet of Heaven. Second Metropolis is the place Katie started her work as a company coach, serving to corporations like Boeing and Proctor & Gamble construct teamwork, develop concepts, and enhance public talking confidence. After Second Metropolis, Katie joined the writing workers of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, the place she labored for seven seasons. She developed and took part in a speaker’s sequence on the Aspen Concepts Pageant entitled: Snigger to Hold From Crying: Comedy Writers on Making Politics Humorous Katie has carried out all around the world, from TBS’ Only for Laughs to Eire’s Cat Laughs Comedy Pageant. Business credit embody: Uncover Card, Wal-Mart, Sonic Drive-in, Lexus, and extra. She is an award-winning copywriter, creating campaigns comparable to KFC’s “I Ate the Bones,” Massive Heaps’ “Stand-Up Mother” and aiding Taika Waititi on the newest Idorsia marketing campaign. She has additionally written for and consulted on many award exhibits comparable to The Emmys, The Academy Awards, The Golden Globes, The ESPYs and NFL Honors. You possibly can hear her writing on NPR’s Dwell From Right here or really hear her voice on Showtime’s OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT, HBO’s Batman: The Audio Adventures and Netflix’s CHICAGO PARTY AUNT, on which she additionally served as co-creator and government producer. Katie at the moment lives in Los Angeles the place she is an government producer on HARLEY QUINN.
Jacquelyn Reingold is a playwright, TV author, trainer, and advocate. Her performs have been seen in New York at EST, MCC, Bare Angels, at Actors Theater Louisville, Portland Middle Stage, PlayLabs Minneapolis, at theaters throughout the nation, and in London, Dublin, Berlin, Belgrade, and Lima. Her latest play Worry Much less was learn in EST/Sloan Basis’s First Gentle Pageant, Might 2024. Honors/awards embody a 2023 Lilly Award as a playwright and advocate, the Kennedy Middle’s Fund for New American Performs, EST/Sloan Basis Commissions, Yaddo, MacDowell Fellowships, Hermitage Artists Retreat, a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, Oscar Ruebhausen fee, New Dramatists’ Joe Callaway and Whitfield Cook dinner Awards. She’s printed by DPS, French, Smith & Kraus, and a set of one-acts known as Issues Between Us. TV writing/producing credit embody The Good Struggle, East New York, Grace and Frankie, Smash, and In Therapy. She wrote a pilot, BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, for John Wells Productions, and is at the moment engaged on two sequence concepts. Jacquelyn is a member of EST, an alum of New Dramatists, and a founding member of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group for older ladies+ playwrights, whose objective is inclusion in theater. She and author Cheryl Davis are at the moment on a marketing campaign to satisfy all of New York’s Inventive Administrators, to advocate for ladies+ writers over 50.
Zach Smilovitz is an Emmy-nominated, WGA Award-winning author, producer, and performer. He was the Co-Creator and Head Author of STEPHEN COLBERT PRESENTS TOONING OUT THE NEWS on Comedy Central. Beforehand, he was a Supervising Producer on OUR ARTOON PRESIDENT on Showtime. He started his profession as a workers author at LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN earlier than writing for Robert Smigel on TRIUMPH’S ELECTION SPECIAL 2016 on Hulu.
Lauren Ashley Smith is an Emmy-nominated TV & movie author, producer and radio host. At present, she is in an total cope with CBS Studios to develop scripted TV comedies. Beforehand, Lauren was the top author and co-executive producer of the primary two seasons of HBO’s critically acclaimed A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW, for which she obtained a Tv Critics Affiliation award and three Emmy nominations. Previous to that, Lauren was the top author of THE RUNDOWN WITH ROBIN THEDE on BET. She is the primary Black girl to be the top author of an American sketch tv present and solely the second Black girl to be the top author of a late evening present. Lauren’s different writing and producing credit embody WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN on Bravo, VH1’s BEST WEEK EVER and an upcoming characteristic movie produced by Oprah Winfrey. When she will not be writing, Lauren co-hosts “Smith Sisters Dwell,” a each day popular culture radio present on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy, which received the 2022 Gracie Award for Greatest Nationally Syndicated Discuss Present.
Iturri Sosa got here to television writing after a profession in psychological analysis and anthropological fieldwork, graduating with a level in cultural/medical psychology. She accomplished her medical coaching at Cook dinner County/Stroger Hospital. Her doctoral work took her to southern Mexico, the place she performed anthropological analysis that sought to enhance entry to psychological well being look after rural Yucatec Maya audio system. In 2022, she received an Edgar for an episode she wrote for Narcos: Mexico. Her television writing credit embody GOTHAM, THE DEUCE, and SCARPETTA.
Jim Strouse wrote and directed the characteristic movies GRACE IS GONE, PEOPLE PLACE THINGS and THE INCREDIBLE JESSICA JAMES, all of which premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
Mfoniso Udofia is a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator. Upcoming productions embody Sojourners (Huntington Theatre, Spherical Home Theatre), and The Grove (Huntington Theatre). Sojourners, Runboyrun, Her Portmanteau and In Outdated Age have been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, Playwrights Realm, Magic Theater, Nationwide Black Theatre, Strand Theater, and Boston Courtroom. Mfoniso has written on acclaimed exhibits like 13 REASONS WHY on Netflix, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN on Amazon, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN on Showtime, and PACHINKO (Peabody Award), LITTLE AMERICA and LESSON IN CHEMISTRY (WGA Nomination) on Apple TV+. She has additionally developed movies for HBO, Legendary, and Amazon. Training: BA Wellesley Faculty, MFA American Conservatory Theater. Recipient of the 2017 Helen Merrill Award, 2017-18 McKnight Nationwide Residency/Fee, and member of New Dramatists.
