As we continue our Women TV Writers series, we are excited to present our first writing team, Elisabeth R. Finch and Kate Barnow, who wrote for HBO’s True Blood, and now are staffed on ABC’s No Ordinary Family.
They had very different paths into the industry… Elisabeth was a playwright from Jersey and Kate a former history major writing an unproducible period piece. Which women’s career website connected them with True Blood? And how did their jobs as assistant and script coordinator equip them to write the True Blood comic book?
Find out how they managed to write three freelance True Blood scripts while still performing their other job duties, and then how they made the jump to full staff writers at No Ordinary Family. They also share many of the ways that the writing process varies between cable shows and network shows.
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First published January 18, 2011.
095 - Michael Narducci (Showrunner of The Originals)
094 - Arika Lisanne Mittman (EP of Paradise Lost, Timeless)
093 - Sarah Watson (Creator of The Bold Type, Author of Most Likely)
092 - Bob Goodman (Creator of The Zeta Project, EP of Elementary)
091 – “How I Wrote That” Podcast Host Khanisha Foster (VIDEO)
090 – Touched By An Angel, A Prairie Home Companion Writer Ken LaZebnik (VIDEO)
089 – Kirby Buckets Co-Creator Mike Alber (VIDEO)
088 – Jimmy Kimmel Writer, 2nd Smartest in the World Rick Rosner (VIDEO)
087 – Hand of God Creator/Showrunner Ben Watkins (VIDEO)
086 – Automatic Pilot Author Bill Taub (VIDEO)
085 – San Diego Comic-Con Panel - How to Write a TV Pilot (VIDEO)
084 – Unseen Africa Pilot Producer/Host Francis Tapon (VIDEO)
083 – Bad Teacher Creator/Showrunner Hilary Winston (VIDEO)
082 – Caper Creator, Eureka Writer/Producer Amy Berg (VIDEO)
081 – Lost Co-Creator, Tuck Everlasting & Necessary Roughness Writer Jeffrey Lieber (VIDEO)
080 – UK Writers James Whitehouse & Hannah George (VIDEO)
079 – The Finder, The Good Guys Writer Aaron Ginsburg (VIDEO)
078 – The Client List Writer, Script Anatomy Consultant Tawnya Bhattacharya (VIDEO)
077 – Own Your Career – Sterling Anderson from Sterling Writers Group (VIDEO)
076 – Hemlock Grove, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville Writer/EP Mark Verheiden (VIDEO)
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