Every Monday night, theOffice closes its doors so that the writers and actors of Safehouse can take over. Safehouse consists of about 20 working Hollywood writers, including founding members Jim Uhls and Blake Herron. They workshop new material with actors in front of the group. It's been a "safe house" for screenwriters and playwrights for over 10 … Continue reading 8 At The Zoo, a Fundraising Play for theOffice
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QOTD
"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index … Continue reading QOTD
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“Can You Read My Script?”
I’ve been on both sides of this question. It seems pretty harmless, doesn’t it? When someone asks me to read their script, I always say yes. As a writer myself, I know it is not always an easy thing to ask. From there, it goes down like this: They send over the script. And it’s never … Continue reading “Can You Read My Script?”
And the winner is…
After reading through every submission, we have chosen Mia Resella as the recipient of a six month fellowship here at theOffice. Mia is a screenwriter, an artist, and a host of the popular Youtube series "2 Broke Geeks". Her ten page submission was funny and original, with a fabulously unique voice behind it all. Each judge … Continue reading And the winner is…
Judges Announced for theOffice’s 2014 Fellowship
We’ve got some exciting news about our Fellowship this year. For the first time, we’ve asked some of our rockstar members to judge the finalists, and help us pick one lucky writer to work alongside them at theOffice. Here they are... Jennifer Celotta is best known for her work on the TV show The Office. … Continue reading Judges Announced for theOffice’s 2014 Fellowship
QOTD
"The odds of making it as a screenwriter always seem daunting… If you took every single person that said, “I want to be a writer,” in Hollywood, everybody who ever said that, then the percentage of people who actually make it in terms of actually being a working writer would be extraordinarily small. But then, … Continue reading QOTD
Let It Go
First Draft I recently finished the first draft of the comedy pilot I’ve been working on with a writing partner. It’s great except that it’s about twenty pages too long and not funny. We cringed every time we read it. The thing needed rewrites. Not the kind where we could just go through the script … Continue reading Let It Go
QOTD
"When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles … Continue reading QOTD
My Favorite QOTD
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, … Continue reading My Favorite QOTD
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