Nickelodeon Writing Program
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon Writing Program
2020
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Active Since 2000
Apply for the chance to hone your skills, build a professional network, and get your foot in the door of Nickelodeon's writers' rooms.
Accepting TV Pilots and Specs
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About
Our global Writing Program is one of the best in the biz. We offer aspiring TV writers, with unique voices and from underrepresented communities, the opportunity to hone their skills and launch their careers as writers on Nickelodeon’s scripted live-action and animated productions. While in the Program, writers workshop their comedy chops, meet our series creators, work in writers’ rooms, and receive hands-on experience writing scripts and pitching story ideas, all while being paid a salary.
There are three tracks to choose from:
General Track – If you live in the US and want to focus on kids’ and family comedy.
International Track – If you live outside the US (see www.nickwriting.com for visa requirements).
Preschool Track – If you live in the US and want to focus on writing for the preschool demographic. You bring the smart, funny, engaging stories and characters, and we’ll help you bring the preschool.
Note! This program's application requires both an original comedy pilot and a spec pilot from Nickelodeon's Accepted Show List. We highly recommend reading the steps and materials needed for submitting here.
Benefits
Launch your screenwriting career straight from the Nickelodeon studio in Burbank. You'll participate in exclusive workshops, sharpen your skills with hands-on mentorship, build a professional network, and experience our writers' rooms first hand, all while getting paid to live the dream.
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2023 Winners on Coverfly
Paranormal Ricktivity
Private
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
When Summer's favorite boy band breaks up, Rick agrees to take her to see them in a subsect of the afterlife. In order to do this, Rick, Morty, and Summer must temporarily die. Beth and Jerry start to spiral upon finding their lifeless bodies.
Los Angeles, CA
Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, I attended Boston College where I received a degree in Economics with a Math minor while I pursued my interests in comedy and writing through extracurriculars. I was accepted to the NBCUniversal Page Program in 2015 and have lived and worked in Los Angeles ever since. When not writing, I can be found performing stand up c...
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Top 4%
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
When Janine’s new class pet goes missing, she goes to great lengths to avoid having a difficult conversation with her students. Meanwhile, Gregory gets serious about the school garden while Ava avoids going to the dentist.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Brooke Shapes Up
Private
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
Brooke struggles to honor women’s stories when Chase becomes the villain of Kiernan Shipka’s new memoir. Cary makes his reality TV debut on “Rainbow Rentals.”
Chicago, IL
No bio available.
Announcements
Oct 30th
Semifinalists
Nov 15th
Finalists
Nov 30th
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