Fairly recent grad (and recurrent guest poster) Liz Breen reflects on the road not taken (at least yet). Not long ago, I had a conversation online (God bless the Internet) that went something like this: “Hey, Liz. It’s _____ from the BU in LA program. How are you?” “I’m great, ____. How are you?” “I’m [...]
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Here at Your Industry Insider, we love to shed light on professions within the industry which people might be curious about, but for which little information exists. Game show writer/producer Ryan Hopak has worked on some of the top shows in his genre, including “Survivor, ” “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?,” and “Jeopardy!” [...]
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The following post was sent out to the Actor’s Fund participants as part of their ”Jobs Bulletin” last month, but I think it’s an important accompaniment to this post I did not long after the event referenced and that readers here – actors and others pursuing “dream jobs” – would get a lot of value from it. Please feel [...]
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Recent grad (and recurrent YII guest poster) Liz Breen reflects on a parent’s long-ago visit to a psychic and what it means for her prospects of landing a staff writing gig on a hit network sitcom. When I was a little girl no older than 8-years-old, my father went to a psychic. He asked her [...]
Read More →People often wonder how Your Industry Insider stays up on current technologies and developments within cutting edge fields such as gaming and transmedia. I’ll tell you right now: It’s by knowing people like sci fi/fantasy prose, TV, transmedia and game writer/game designer, Anne Toole. When she pauses for a second in her busy schedule (which includes [...]
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Most books about screenwriting are written by academics and others who know how to analyze story and convey the basics of script construction, but who have never had a pitch or script optioned, never dealt with studio notes, never been in a writer’s room … in short, who have never gotten paid to write movies [...]
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Intrepid recent college grad and so-far three time guest poster Liz Breen (read her first and second posts here) faces life after academia with a good job secured and her dreams still top of mind. It should tell you a lot that I call this post, “What to Do When You’re Old.” I’m sure the [...]
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You hear a lot of people say “Oh I could do better than that” when watching TV or a movie. In the case of Stephen and his writing partner, an episode of “Baywatch” inspired them to try their luck at screenwriting. That inspiration was followed by writing some bad scripts and then some not-so-bad scripts, [...]
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Today’s profile subject is a current (January 2012) nominee for the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Animation for an episode of ”Futurama” he wrote as an assignment while he was a writer’s assistant on the show. He was not new to “Futurama,” though, nor was he new to the television business, and his path to becoming staffed on a [...]
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In spite of being a writer, Executive Producer, and actor on one of the top half-hour comedies on network television, “The Office,” Mindy Kaling is near the beginning of her entertainment career. Unlike “Stories I Only Tell My Friends,” in which actor Rob Lowe chronicles his 30-plus years in showbiz or “Bossypants,” whose author, [...]
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