Exclusive: The Writers Guild Foundation has announced the participants for the 2023 session of the Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program.
Out of the nearly 2,100 applications received, 18 candidates were selected: Archana Shinde, Ashley Obinwanne, Del Potter, Filipa Ioannou, J. Gabriel Ware, Jazmyn Edmonds, Jon-Alexander Genson, Khadijah Iman, Kyle Harris, Maaman Rezaee, Madonna Diaz-Refugia, Rodrigo Carvalhedo, Saira Umar, Samuel Christopher Spitale, Stephanie Leke, Stephen Ra-Choi, Xuan Mai and Yeon Jin Lee.
Applications were reviewed by a committee of over 30 television creators, executive producers, showrunners, and writers who previously worked as writers’ assistants and script coordinators, including program founders Tanya Saracho (Vida), Mike Royce (One Day at a Time) and Liz Hsiao Lan Alper (Day of the Dead), along with showrunners Gloria Calderon Kellett (With Love), Sera Gamble (You), Glen Mazzara (The Rookie), Latoya Morgan (Duster) and Steven Canals (Pose).
The 12-week course begins in mid-August and will be taught by instructors Debbie Ezer...
Out of the nearly 2,100 applications received, 18 candidates were selected: Archana Shinde, Ashley Obinwanne, Del Potter, Filipa Ioannou, J. Gabriel Ware, Jazmyn Edmonds, Jon-Alexander Genson, Khadijah Iman, Kyle Harris, Maaman Rezaee, Madonna Diaz-Refugia, Rodrigo Carvalhedo, Saira Umar, Samuel Christopher Spitale, Stephanie Leke, Stephen Ra-Choi, Xuan Mai and Yeon Jin Lee.
Applications were reviewed by a committee of over 30 television creators, executive producers, showrunners, and writers who previously worked as writers’ assistants and script coordinators, including program founders Tanya Saracho (Vida), Mike Royce (One Day at a Time) and Liz Hsiao Lan Alper (Day of the Dead), along with showrunners Gloria Calderon Kellett (With Love), Sera Gamble (You), Glen Mazzara (The Rookie), Latoya Morgan (Duster) and Steven Canals (Pose).
The 12-week course begins in mid-August and will be taught by instructors Debbie Ezer...
- 7/31/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Professional Programs has revealed winners of its 2020 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions.
The winners, who were among the 221 students who completed the yearlong Screenwriting, Writing for Television Professional and Acting for the Camera programs, were notified on the last day of classes, June 5.
Gwenola Balmelle is the Feature Screenplay competition winner for her comedy-drama screenplay Chouchou the Cosmonaut. Honorable mention went to Shannon Walsh for the drama Death, Ghosts & Other Stuff.
Jessica Rowlands won Writing for Television Drama Pilot with her script Ruby. She won last year’s Feature Screenplay competition and is the program’s only award-winner in Feature Screenplay and Writing for Television categories.
Rodrigo Carvalhedo was the Writing for Television Comedy Pilot winner with his animation Enchanted Isle. Honorable mentions went to Kennedy O’Brien, Marek Glinski, Amaya Cervino and Cathal Eric Power.
The winners, who were among the 221 students who completed the yearlong Screenwriting, Writing for Television Professional and Acting for the Camera programs, were notified on the last day of classes, June 5.
Gwenola Balmelle is the Feature Screenplay competition winner for her comedy-drama screenplay Chouchou the Cosmonaut. Honorable mention went to Shannon Walsh for the drama Death, Ghosts & Other Stuff.
Jessica Rowlands won Writing for Television Drama Pilot with her script Ruby. She won last year’s Feature Screenplay competition and is the program’s only award-winner in Feature Screenplay and Writing for Television categories.
Rodrigo Carvalhedo was the Writing for Television Comedy Pilot winner with his animation Enchanted Isle. Honorable mentions went to Kennedy O’Brien, Marek Glinski, Amaya Cervino and Cathal Eric Power.
- 7/1/2020
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
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