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  • First Person: Liz Breen

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      The following is a guest post by Boston University student and aspiring television writer, Liz Breen, currently interning in Los Angeles. I am an East Coast girl. I grew up in Northern Connecticut, and I study at Boston University. However, I forcibly uprooted myself from the frozen Northeastern ground in early January to thaw out [...]

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  • Industry Pro: Television Producer Lynn Hughes

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    Today’s subject, Lynn Hughes, started by interning at a theater in Chicago and then, while working as a Production Assistant in the London theater district, had an encounter with a Monty Python icon that spun her out of classical music training and into a successful career as a producer. Read on for more on her path… Location: [...]

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  • Recommended: Media-Match.com

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    Media-Match.com is a site which helps entertainment professionals and those looking to hire them find each other. Job-seekers (both freelance and permanent) can create profiles and can also search the jobs posted to the site, which come directly from the companies doing the search or from other job sites across the internet. Companies can post jobs [...]

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  • Recommended Resource for Aspiring TV Writers

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    There are many books on the market about the TV writing business. Unfortunately, most tend to fall into one of two somewhat-unsuccsesful camps. Those that are written by academics tend to cover the basics well, but have too much of an outsider POV to give true insight into the actual workings of the biz and the path to success. Those written by [...]

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  • Industry Pro: Director/Editor/Filmmaker Roger Nygard

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    Roger Nygard has become a successful feature documentary filmmaker, and director and editor on episodic television series including ”The Bernie Mac Show,” ”The Office,” and ”Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but his entertainment career path was not a smooth one. In his profile, he talks candidly about his early struggles, and about how he turned a loan from his mother into much-needed career-stability. Current project:  My latest documentary, THE NATURE OF [...]

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  • Industry Pro: Actor Josh Randall

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    Josh Randall works a lot. Even when he’s not shooting a film or TV show, he is at meetings and auditions for upcoming projects. And, as he says below, the work you do to get the work is often more arduous than actually shooting a role. But he’s obviously doing something right on both counts, as [...]

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