If you're not following me on IG or Tiktok Yet, now is definitely the time to do so because I am going to be dropping GEMS on these platforms leading up to our TV Camp launch in October!! I'm talking writing timelines, TV Pilot breakdowns, and so much more. I'm having so much fun nerding out making content for you all, so I hope to see you in the comment section engaging! Which reminds me, the TV Camp waitlist is open! If you didn't catch the announcement yesterday, I'll give you a quick...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
We are back with the 3rd Summer issue recapping my industry takeaways from Tribeca Film Festival (and really the past year in the business overall). We're finally addressing the 10 Ton Guerrilla in the room... Backrooms and Obsession. As I mentioned in the previous newsletters, I went to Tribeca’s Storytelling Summit which focuses on educational panels and networking and TribecaX which focuses on where brands, marketing and filmmaking intersect and in BOTH sections of the festival nearly...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed the heat wave and some bbq last week. ICYMI I went to Tribeca Film Festival's Storytelling Summit and Tribeca X at the beginning of the month, and took notes to share with you all. This is part 2! I mentioned last week that Tribeca X had a huge focus on cross-platform storytelling and the influx of social series, micro-dramas, and brand-sponsored filmmaking. You may have started to see shows like this pop up on your feeds. Our industry experiences a contraction,...
3 months ago • 9 min read
She's back!! TV Camp is up and running (and thriving! I'm having so much fun with these writers so far). And my obligatory summer cold has come and gone. I have a LOT to catch you up on and I have been banking some posts to share with you over the summer. I went to Tribeca Film Festival's Storytelling Summit and Tribeca X at the beginning of the month as well as the Main Street vs The Merger Town Hall at the WGA East offices, and took notes to share with you all. I also wrapped up my TV Pilot...
3 months ago • 8 min read
One thing about me is that I have some strong opinions about arts education, accessibility, and how TV classes are structured... After 8 years of teaching screenwriting, 6 years of teaching TV writing specifically, I’ve watched the same thing happen to good writers over and over again. It goes like this. A writer decides they’re finally going to do it, they’re going to write their pilot. Yay! They sign up for a class. One with good reviews, a reputable company with a teacher experienced in...
4 months ago • 3 min read
It feels like my entire life right now is prepping TV Camp, but I do have some other exciting things (and less exciting things) going on! I am getting to know the fantastic cohort of writers in the Sundance Collab course I'm advising this month. I'm catching up on "writer admin" now that my pilot is done -- applying to grants, playwriting fellowships, updating my website etc. Getting ahead on work so I have free time for WGF Festival and Tribeca next month! Doing some reading and ideating on...
5 months ago • 5 min read
Hey Reader, If you’ve been circling the same idea for months (cough, years) watching other writers move forward, while you restart your outline for the fourth time, you’re not alone. I know so many early-career writers who are dedicated, passionate and talented but also stuck. Not because they don’t have what it takes, but because nobody ever gave them a clear, complete path from idea to finished draft, that actually works for them. Screenwriting is this oddball marriage of intuition and...
5 months ago • 2 min read
I started teaching another Sundance Collab course this week and a student asked me to tell her my journey to screenwriting and how I got where I am. I realized I haven't told that story to many of you on this email list, so I put together a 3-part series on Social media breaking down the exact path I took to getting repped and staffed as a TV writer. The craft side of things I'll be breaking down in my course this summer, but the career strategy is something I thought I'd share with you all!...
5 months ago • 5 min read
I feel like I blinked and April was gone! I have sooo much to update you on! I've been hard at work prepping my summer TV pilot course, while finishing up my most recent pilot with my reps and noodling on what the rest of 2026 is going to look for me, writing-wise. Recently, I've fixated on the problem of a lack of career-advice and business advice for screenwriters/creatives in the industry and have been thinking of ways I can help. For now, I have set up a voicemail box where people can...
5 months ago • 7 min read