Photos courtesy of Allison Collins-Smith When screenwriter Tehran Von Ghasri was a child, he never saw himself represented on the big or small screen. As a Persian, Black Jewish person, Von Ghasri felt alone in his identity and, at first, alone in th...

As an eight-year-old child, Aarthi Ramanathan, and her family, were ripped from their home in Kuwait and forced into a refugee camp. It was the beginning of the Gulf War, and within what seemed like moments, Ramanathan’s life turned upside down; she ...

Documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Kevin Bachar didn't let the COVID-19 pandemic slow him down; 2020 was full of new and exciting moments for his career. Aside from finishing up his ninth film for PBS Nature on the sharks of Hawaii, as well as an...

Quarantine hasn't slowed Monique 'Mo' Moshaty down, as she works from home in her newly formed writers room; an all-female horror collective made up of four women from around the country. The group, which formed in March, is crafting a dark, sci-fi a...

Aspiring Hollywood screenwriter Lisa Jay isn't just sitting around, patiently waiting to hear back on whether the options have gone through for her multiple scripts. Jay kept busy through the pandemic writing a new horror feature her manager, Scott F...

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Every day is the same for Lucy Luna, a writer on CBS’s new show All Rise: Wake up in her Los Angeles apartment at seven am, work out, shower, and have breakfast by 10 am, at which time she makes the long commute to her desk to open her laptop and pre...

Anngelica-Marie Eshesimua knows the importance of hard work and determination; it's what helped her land her current job as writer's assistant on the Netflix show Family Reunion. She's fulfilled her first goal of working inside a room after years of ...

Felicia Pride celebrated her 39th birthday in her very first Hollywood writers room; ironically, about 20 years after her first-ever published piece.