Featuring over forty interviews with America’s leading showrunners, this book provides unique perspectives and insights into the TV industry, and demystifies the craft, backbone, skill, strategies, challenges, and persistence it takes to succeed in Hollywood and internationally.
Marygrace O’Shea’s conversations with women showrunners are part master craft lesson, part backstage pass, part career guide from the geniuses who create the best TV. The book shines a light on what it truly means to be a showrunner working in the industry today, and reveals how to navigate a career and a future in the global marketplace. Interviews include Angela Kang (The Walking Dead), Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Barbara Hall (Madam Secretary), Charlotte Brown (Rhoda), Chris Nee (Doc McStuffins), Elizabeth Berger (This is Us), Gloria Calderón Kellett (One Day at a Time), Ilene Chaiken (The L Word), Liz Meriwether (The New Girl, The Dropout), Liz Tigelaar (Tiny Beautiful Things, Little Fires Everywhere), Marta Kauffman (Friends, Grace and Frankie), Tracy Oliver (Harlem, Awkward Black Girl), Sierra Teller Ornelas (Rutherford Falls), and many more.
Ideal for professional and aspiring television writers, as well as students of screenwriting, film and TV, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the art, craft and business of creating television.
By:
Marygrace O'Shea
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781032287195
ISBN 10: 1032287195
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 22 December 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction, Aline Brosh McKenna I’m Here to Tell You You’re Qualified Angela Kang Permission to Go After What I Love Barbara Hall We’re All on the Side of the Show Charlotte Brown The First Woman in The Room Who Wasn’t There to Take Lunch Orders Chris Nee The World as I Hope it Will Be Dailyn Rodriguez Advocate for Yourself Dayna Lynne North Be Your Own Hype Girl Dee Johnson I Climbed Every Rung of the Ladder Elizabeth Berger We Loved the Way Television Made Us Feel Erica Kodish You Girlfriend, Are Going into Battle Felicia Henderson Sometimes, You’ve Got to Put on Your Sasha Fierce Gillian Horvath I’m a lot of Things, a Woman is Only One of Them Gloria Calderón Kellett They Don’t Know I’m Superman Ilana Pena Let’s, Like, Do Big Things Ilene Chaiken You Have to Believe that You Know Best Janine Sherman Barrois I’m Going for the American Dream Daily Jenny Bicks In a Good Room, It’s Magic Jo Miller People Want to Hear an Angry, Menopausal Woman Screaming, So Here I am Julie Plec I Moved Here with No Experience and No Skills Krista Vernoff The Key to Longevity is Knowing Yourself Well Linda Yvette Chávez Me, Fully and Without Fear Lisa Hanawalt A Little Room to Play Liz Meriwether People Feeling Safe is, as a Showrunner, Your Job Liz Tigelaar I Had to Stop Being So Wide-Eyed and Grateful Marta Kauffman To Prove it to Myself Marti Noxon Let Go of Being Liked By Everybody Meg DeLoatch I’m Authentically Telling My Story Melinda Hsu Foster an Atmosphere of Possibility Michelle Nader Open Your Mind to All the Possibilities Monica Macer You Gotta Be the First One Out on the Dance Floor Natalie Chaidez My Lane is Trangressive Women Nkechi Okoro Carroll Everyone Deserves the Right to Dream Raelle Tucker Is This a Net Positive for the World? Sarah Gertrude Shapiro Fear is The Enemy of Creativity Shoshannah Stern Trusting Your Gut is the Only Way to Go Sierra Teller Ornelas I Come from Storytellers Soo Hugh Ideas are Your Insurance Susannah Grant I am so Firmly Heart First Tanya Saracho We’ve Been Excluded from the Narrative for So Long Tracy Oliver Know What You’re Worth Veena Sud Blasting Away the Sacred Cow of Motherhood Winnie Holzman See the Beauty of it Acknowledgements
Marygrace O’Shea is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Film and Television Department. She has also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program, has been a Visiting Professor of the Arts at Sarah Lawrence, an instructor at the Media Arts and Technology Department at BMCC, and has also led master classes for students from La Femis. She has worked on shows for ABC, PBS, NBC, HBO, and FOX including Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: SVU, HBO’s In Treatment. She is an active member of the WGA East.
