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Writers' Assistant
Writers' assistant is a junior role in the television industry, providing clerical support and record keeping for writers' room meetings and basic office support for writing teams. Job description The term "writer's assistant" is somewhat of a misnomer; the person in this position assists the "writing process" more than anything else. Their major job is attending all writer meeting and taking notes making a careful record of what was said, particularly something on the white board or said by the showrunner. After taking notes at the room meetings, the assistant organizes this information, and sends out a 15-20 page email to the writers to provide them with material for their deadlines. Other duties include doing research, pitching ideas, producing web content, read and type scripts, and print and add revisions to scripts. Mundane duties during non-meeting days can include setting schedules, getting coffee, managing email and taking calls. There are generally 6-12 writers for a sho ...
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Writers' Room
A writers' room is a space where writers, usually of a television series, gather to write and refine scripts. The television industry has long had a collaborative model for writing shows. Historically the rooms were physical spaces. Increasingly these collaborations are done through Zoom (software), zoom. With the explosion of scripted shows, and the competition among the networks and streaming channels, a "fluidity has developed to the way shows are created." The writers' room follows no single formula; it is an open-ended process with a range of set-ups. Room sizes vary from two to thirty, depending on the budget and number of episodes, each room with its own rules. "Mini-rooms" exist for limited series and smaller shows, mostly those haven't gotten the Thumb signal, thumbs-up. Room hierarchy/pecking order The showrunner runs the entire writers' room. They have overall responsibility for the entire series; they are in charge of the budget, scripts, crew, keeping actors ha ...
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Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class. It includes individual attitudes, behaviors, systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper class at the expense of the lower class. Social class refers to the grouping of individuals in a hierarchy based on wealth, income, education, occupation, and social network. History Class structures existed in a simplified form in pre-agricultural societies, but it has evolved into a more complex and established structure following the establishment of permanent agriculture-based civilizations with a food surplus. Classism started to be practiced around the 18th century. Segregation into classes was accomplished through observable traits (such as race or profession) that were accorded varying status and privileges. Feudal classification systems might include merchant, serf, peasant, warrior, priestly, and noble classes. Rankings were far from invariant w ...
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Writers' Room
A writers' room is a space where writers, usually of a television series, gather to write and refine scripts. The television industry has long had a collaborative model for writing shows. Historically the rooms were physical spaces. Increasingly these collaborations are done through Zoom (software), zoom. With the explosion of scripted shows, and the competition among the networks and streaming channels, a "fluidity has developed to the way shows are created." The writers' room follows no single formula; it is an open-ended process with a range of set-ups. Room sizes vary from two to thirty, depending on the budget and number of episodes, each room with its own rules. "Mini-rooms" exist for limited series and smaller shows, mostly those haven't gotten the Thumb signal, thumbs-up. Room hierarchy/pecking order The showrunner runs the entire writers' room. They have overall responsibility for the entire series; they are in charge of the budget, scripts, crew, keeping actors ha ...
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Robin Veith
Robin Veith is an American television writer. She served as a writer's assistant on the first season of ''Mad Men'' and co-wrote the final episode of the season "The Wheel" with the series creator Matthew Weiner. Weiner and Veith were nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for their work on the episode. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff she won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series and was nominated for the award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony for her work on the season. She returned for the second series as a staff writer. She was nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for her work on the second season. She won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series (after being nominated for the third consecutive year) at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season. Veith was also nominated for the WGA award for episodic drama at the Februar ...
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Naomi Ekperigin
Naomi Ekperigin is an American comedian, actress, producer, and writer. She has written for the television shows ''Great News'' and ''Broad City''. She has acted on the television shows ''Corporate'', ''Search Party (TV series), Search Party'', ''Central Park (TV series), Central Park'', and ''Mythic Quest''. Early life and education Ekperigin was born and raised in Harlem, with a father from Nigeria and a mother from Detroit. She attended the Dalton School, where she was one of six black students in a class of 118, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005. In college, Ekperigin began performing comedy and doing improv. Career After graduating from college, Ekperigin spent a year touring with the National Theatre for the Deaf, and she returned to New York in 2007 where she got a start doing stand-up while working a day job at an art magazine. When that magazine folded in 2013, Ekperigin found a position working as a writer's assistant for ''Broad City''. She was promoted to ...
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Gordon Smith (screenwriter)
Gordon Smith is an American television screenwriter, best known for his work on ''Breaking Bad'' and ''Better Call Saul''. Smith has been nominated for three individual Primetime Emmys, and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama in 2018 for the episode "Chicanery", and has received several other nominations. Career Smith started as an office production assistant for season 3 of ''Breaking Bad'', then became Vince Gilligan's assistant in season 4, and the writers' assistant in season 5. Smith co-wrote the ''Breaking Bad'' mini-featurette titled ''Chicks 'N' Guns'' which was released on the fifth season Blu-ray. Smith was then hired as a staff writer for the ''Breaking Bad'' spinoff ''Better Call Saul''. His first television script, for the episode " Five-O" (from season 1) earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. He also wrote episode 8 from the first season, titled "RICO". For the second season of '' ...
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Cherry T. Chevapravatdumrong (; born 1977), also known as Cherry Cheva, is an American author, screenwriter, comedian, and producer. She serves as an executive producer of ''Family Guy'' and a co-executive producer of ''The Orville'' and ''Resident Alien''. Early life Chevapravatdumrong, a Thai American, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from Huron High School in 1995. She majored in psychology at Yale University, where she wrote for ''The Yale Record'', Yale's humor magazine. She later earned a Juris Doctor degree from New York University Law School, where she wrote for the comedic Law Revue. During law school, she spent her summers working at law firms and her winter breaks waiting tables at her parents' restaurant. Career She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing. Before working on ''Family Guy'', she was a writer's assistant on '' Listen Up!'' She released two young adult novels, ''She's So Money'' and ''DupliKate'', under th ...
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Tracey Wigfield
Tracey Wigfield (born June 19, 1983) is an American comedy writer. She created, produced and appeared in the NBC sitcom ''Great News''. She also developed the Peacock teen sitcom ''Saved By The Bell'', a revival of the original series of the same name created by Sam Bobrick. Early life Raised in Wayne, New Jersey, Wigfield attended Catholic schools throughout grade school. As a child, she was involved in both acting and dance. She graduated in 2001 from the all-girls Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey. In high school, she used her parents' video camera to record comedy skits together with a friend.Winters, Debra"Wayne native Tracey Wigfield scores Emmy for '30 Rock' writing" ''Wayne Today'', September 27, 2013. Accessed October 27, 2013. "Wigfield graduated from Immaculate Heart Academy, an all girls school located in Washington Township, in 2001." Wigfield graduated from Boston College in 2005, where she majored in theater and English. ...
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Chloe Domont (born September 2, 1987) is an American television and film writer and director, best known for her 2023 film directorial debut, ''Fair Play'', an erotic thriller about gender dynamics in the workplace. Early life and education She is from Los Angeles. Her father, a cinephile, is credited for developing her love of film. Initially wanting to be a screenwriter, she made short films in high school. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in film and television. At NYU she transitioned to directing. Directing career After graduation she directed commercials and wrote for short films. A chance meeting with Julian Farino led to a writers' assistant position on '' Ballers''. Farino found her "monumentally overqualified," but still eager to learn with "an intensity of purpose." She advanced to the writers' room and then creator Steve Levinson gave her a chance to direct an episode, her first big break. By 2017 she had steady television work, ...
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Screenwriting
Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession. Screenwriters are responsible for researching the story, developing the narrative, writing the script, screenplay, dialogues and delivering it, in the required format, to development executives. Screenwriters therefore have great influence over the creative direction and emotional impact of the screenplay and, arguably, of the finished film. Screenwriters either pitch original ideas to producers, in the hope that they will be optioned or sold; or are commissioned by a producer to create a screenplay from a concept, true story, existing screen work or literary work, such as a novel, poem, play, comic book, or short story. Types The act of screenwriting takes many forms across the entertainment industry. Often, multiple writers work on the same script at different stages of development with different ...
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