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TV Drama 1 TV Drama Pilot Workshop

Online Dec 9, Dec 16, Jan 13, Jan 20, Feb 3 (5 Monday Evenings)6:00pm - 9:00pm Pacific$5251 Spot Left

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Do you have a great idea for HBO’s next hit series? Let successful TV writer Nina Fiore (Co-EP, The Handmaid’s Tale, 4 Pilots) help you transform your brilliant premise into a page-turning script! In this 5-week Online TV Drama Pilot Class, you’ll learn how to craft a great logline, structure a compelling story, plan a season arc that keeps the audience hooked, and break your pilot story just like they do in the writers’ room.

Nina will show you how to dramatize and sprinkle in the right amount of plot, character and story for a one-hour show. Through in-class workshopping and pitching, you’ll clarify your tone, voice and world. By the end of this class, you will have created a beat sheet for an irresistible TV Drama pilot.

After studying with us, our alums have landed 402 staff writing positions on shows including FARGO, PERRY MASON, AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, THE BROTHERS SUN, FRASIER and DAVE and won 173 fellowships/staffing program spots at organizations including Disney, NBCU, WB, Paramount & Disruptors.

Note: If you’ve never taken a TV writing class before, we strongly recommend you take TV Dramedy 101 and TV Structure for Pilot Writing in addition to this class.

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Nina Fiore

(Co-EP, The Handmaid’s Tale, 4 pilots)

Nina Fiore is an Emmy-nominated writer and Co-EP on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (all seasons) where she collaborates with writing partner, John Herrera. Nina and John wrote on Bloom, a new show for Netflix that will be coming soon. She and John have also worked on USA’s The Purge, Syfy’s Nightflyers, Blood Drive, Alphas, and Eureka. Additionally, Nina and John have sold their pilots Players and Dante’s Inferno (the latter co-written with Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris) to CW and Freeform, respectively, and an adaptation of Melissa Lenhardt’s genre-bending, feminist western novel, Heresy, with MGM. Nina also co-wrote the movie Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase for Warner Brothers and is currently adapting a true-life feature story about the latter days of the Bosnian-Serb conflict of the 1990’s. Before becoming a TV writer, Nina was a script coordinator and writer’s assistant on Eureka, Sleeper Cell, The L Word. Born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother and a Sicilian father, Nina spent most of her formative years surrounded by an excess of personality. MORE

“BRILLIANT! Nina is best ever at breaking things down and communicating it to you effectively. I learned more from her than I have from all the other projects I've done.”
“Nina gave useful feedback on my beat sheet and clearly knows a lot of great and valuable information on TV writing. She was also often funny.”
“Both John & Nina were so great at sharing their own real world experiences and being open and honest about the entire experience of making a great pitch & pitch deck and what it is like to be in the room. I learned so much about how to improve and move forward with my project. They give great insight, suggestions, and ideas. I'd love to learn more from them in the future.”
“Nina has an amazing ability to get you out of your head and your story onto a complete beat sheet in 5 weeks! She knew where the cracks and weaknesses were, and gave smart coaching on how to fix them. She's just awesome!”
“She was amazing at keeping things positive and providing great feedback. She always made sure we were comfortable with feedback and notes.”
“Nina is very compassionate, kind, empathetic, and thoughtful. Being a working writer, she comes with experience and insight that is very beneficial. She is very approachable and pays attention to each student as they share their ideas.”
“Nina knows how to get to the heart of a concept and makes great suggestions to elevate it, without ego. She knows the writer might take a different approach. Also, she has been incredibly open with her own experiences. She's very encouraging.”

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