From family TV to teaching web series writing… Ross Brown wrote for some of the biggest family sitcoms of the eighties and nineties, including creating a show that would be the launching pad for Halle Berry‘s career. Click image to play video; more details are below. Few of us have more humble beginnings… Ross Brown [...]
John Vorhaus is best known as the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. This seminal book on writing comedy for television and film is now available in four languages, and continues to be a definitive source of information and inspiration for writers from Santa Monica to Scandinavia. Click [...]
The doctor is in! This week features none other than the TV Script Doctor herself, Sarah McLaughlin, who also happens to be a successful comedy writer on shows such as That 70′s Show and Drop Dead Diva. Click image to play video; more details are below. Growing up in New York, Sarah McLaughlin wasn’t allowed [...]
ScriptMag.com has launched a campaign to support and celebrate screenwriters with fantastic websites. We’re proud to announce “Screenwriter Website of the Week.” Our initial launch showcases the talented Chuck Wendig of Terribleminds. Wendig is an author, screenwriter, blogger and penmonkey extraordinaire, posting fantastic writer tales and tidbits regularly. Head on over and check out why Wendig [...]
This week we are proud to welcome the creator of some of the UK’s finest and highest-rated TV series of the 1970s, recipient of the Best Series Writer award by the Writers Guild of Great Britain, writer-author-series creator John Finch!
She wrote the book on TV writing … literally! And she also started what has become the most esteemed graduate school for television writing. This week Gray has a wonderful chat with author, writer, and professor Pamela Douglas.
This is the story of Le Dieu du Carnage, the international hit play by acclaimed novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza. Based on a real-life incident, translations of Reza’s satirical comedy won an Olivier Award and a Tony® before director Roman Polanski and Reza wrote a new translation, for the screen. Ray Morton talks to the celebrated writer.
From Robert McKee’s “Screenwriting 101″ class at USC, to co-developing a successful spinoff of a John Hughes classic, to writing on some of the most well-known shows of the last two decades, writer-producer-author-director Alan Cross has a lot of great stories to tell!
Pilar Alessandra moved to L.A. from Boston to pursue acting, but immediately fell in love with storytelling, and has worked for Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers, The Robert Evans Company, Cineville Entertainment, Handprint Entertainment, and Saturday Night Live Studios.
