When did you realize you wanted to be a writer? It was during my sophomore year of high school. This is going to sound like the most boring anecdote ever, but we were writing essays about “Madame Bovary,” and I just remember something clicked for me in that constructing a piece of writing is like…
Noelle Carbone (TV)
When did you realize you wanted to work in television? I’m not one of those people who knew what they wanted to be when they were a kid. It took me some time, and some fumbling around, to figure out that I wanted to be a screenwriter. Initially, I thought I was going to be…
Jessie Cannizzaro (Theater)
When did you realize you wanted to be an actor? Well, the first show I ever did was in first grade. I went to a very liberal New York City public school, and my teacher had us put on an original musical about the dangers of child labor. I had one line – “We never…
Rob Lowry (Music)
What was your first job in the industry? What did you learn from it? My first job in the industry was a production assistant on The Bonnie Hunt Show, which was a talk show that lasted two seasons. I learned so much – maybe the most important being, there are a million jobs that exist…
Gloria Calderon Kellett (TV)
When did you realize, you wanted to work in television? I started writing senior year of college and knew I wanted to be a writer and storyteller at that point. Television specifically didn’t come till a few years later after grad school. I had to choose between television and screenwriting and felt [it was] the most…
Rob Thomas (TV)
When did you realize you wanted to work in television? I remember trying to make television happen when I was 30. I’d written my first couple of young adult novels for Simon & Schuster. My book money wasn’t quite enough to live on, and I was a TV fan. I ended up writing a letter…
Mike Royce (TV)
When did you realize you wanted to work in TV? My basic story, I always felt like I was writing, even when I was in film school and in College. The stuff I liked writing the most, in my screenwriting classes had a little bit of a sitcom feel to it. The first film I…
Graeme Manson (TV)
When did you first realize you wanted to write/ produce for television? When I first realized I wanted to write for TV I just got out of school. I really wanted to write in film, so at the time TV was great and it was a good gig because I needed to work and it…
Kate Johnson (TV/ Webseries)
When did you realize you wanted to work in television/ produce online content? From a very young age, I always knew that I wanted to work in entertainment in some way, shape or form and that always kind of changed through the years. I really sort of locked in wanting to work in television when…
Jeremy Boxen (TV)
When did you realize you wanted to work in television? Well, I knew I wanted to write all the way back in high school. I actually fell in love with movies at a pretty young age. I think when I wrote my first screenplay I was still in high school, it was terrible of course…
Unsung Heroes 