NBC TV Writers Program |
2022
NBC TV Writers Program identifies & develops writers whose distinct points of view & lived experiences provide unique perspectives to the writers room
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BAD RELIGION
Private
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
In the year of our Lord, 2001, Christian good girl -- and Jesus' BFF -- Grace has her holy world unravel when she ventures to explore sexuality within the confines of her strict religion.
Burbank, CA
No bio available.
Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
A low-level loan shark has a heart attack and dies — but when Death comes to collect his soul, he fights him off, and becomes Death himself. To make sense of his new job, he joins up with a local Death Doula; but he soon discovers the problems of his mortal life just won’t let him go.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, CA
Hernán Barangan is a Filipino/Salvadoran filmmaker from San Francisco who writes elevated genre about rule-breakers who defy their limitations. As a wheelchair user, he defies them every day. His work has placed him in NBCU’s Launch TV Writer’s Program, Black List’s LatinXlist and Tracking Board’s NextList. As a writer on AppleTV+’s LIFE BY ELLA, he...
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Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
In the 1970s, the ambitious Tongsun Park, known as "The Asian Gatsby" among the D.C. elite, conducts an illegal influence-buying campaign that brings American democracy to the brink and now lives in infamy as the political scandal known as Koreagate. Based on true events.
Los Angeles, California
William Yu writes stories about witty underdogs who upend the systems that have held them back. A recent alum of the NBCU Launch TV Writers Lab (fka Writers On The Verge), Yu is also a graduate of the Sundance Episodic Labs. His feature rom-com IT WAS YOU was also voted to the annual Black List. He is currently a Staff Writer on a new, unannounced s...
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Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
After 11 years behind bars, Riley King comes home to a community divided over her innocence. While her newfound notoriety pushes her to the forefront of local politics, her quest to rebuild her life pulls her back into the world of crime she vowed to avoid.
Los Angeles, CA
Aurora Ferlin is a writer and director of Rwandan origin, raised on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium. A first generation immigrant to the US she is now based in Los Angeles.
Her latest short film “Mothers” which she both wrote and directed has been screening at film festivals nationwide including the 2018 American Black Film Festival where it wa...
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ROMANCE IS DEAD
Private
Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 53 Pages
After a freak accident kills his soulmate and leaves him with the ability to communicate with spirits, a mortuary cosmetologist must master his new abilities and reconnect with his lost love before a mysterious mentor can block his plan.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
Two inner-city teens, who share a passion for dance and graffiti, decide to start
their own hip-hop crew. But the battles they fight on stage prove to be much easier than the ones they have to face in real life.
Los Angeles, CA
VARTA TOROSSIAN is a multicultural writer/director with roots in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She traveled the world with a dance company before immigrating to the US. Varta earned two master's degrees in Directing and Screenwriting, the latter from AFI. As an alumna of the NBC TV Writers Program, she sold a couple of scripts and was recentl...
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Selection
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
Deputy Harriet Ogden isn't about to tell the other cops that she's autistic -- they hate her enough already. But she might have an ally in the charming new captain of the narcotics division, especially after a volunteer snitch brings her the case of a lifetime.
Amelia was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She came up as an assistant and worked on the support staff of six shows, including “Power Book IV: Force,” for which she co-wrote and produced the season two finale. Amelia was staffed on the third season. Most recently, she was staffed as a story editor on the second season of "Based on a True Stor...
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