Showrunner Panel 2024 Recording
Online Dec 5 (1 Thursday Afternoon)5:00pm - 6:00pm Pacific$5
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Spend an evening with the gatekeepers of America’s favorite TV shows. Join us for a Q&A with our TV Showrunner’s panel! They’ll be discussing running a writer’s room, working with actors, and finding their show’s DNA. They will also share their secrets for breaking into the biz, pitching that next award-winning pilot, and getting that sweet overall development deal.
Panelists: Dailyn Rodriguez (Netflix’s LINCOLN LAWYER, QUEEN OF THE SOUTH), Paul Thureen (HBO’s SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE), Sam Ernst (Amazon’s CROSS), Sera Gamble (Netflix’s YOU, Syfy’s THE MAGICIANS, EP, Apple TV+’s PHYSICAL)
Dailyn Rodriguez
Showrunner, THE LINCOLN LAWYER, 7 Pilots Sold
Dailyn Rodriguez is currently the Executive Producer/Co-Showrunner of THE LINCOLN LAWYER on Netflix and was the Co-Showrunner for the 4th and 5th seasons of QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, and was the Co-EP for seasons 2 and 3. She's sold 7 pilots and has worked in both Comedy and Drama. Some of her credits are: GEORGE LOPEZ, UGLY BETTY, LIE TO ME, THE NIGHT SHIFT. She received a Writer’s Guild Award for writing for an Outstanding New Series (UGLY BETTY). In 2001, she participated in The Walt Disney Studios Television Writing Fellowship. She’s a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she earned a BFA in Dramatic Writing. MORE
Paul Thureen
Showrunner, SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, 4 Pilots Sold
Paul Thureen is a writer, who – together with Hannah Bos – is the creator and showrunner of HBO’s SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE (AFI Award; GLAAD and Gotham noms for new/breakthrough series). They won the 2024 Peabody Award for Entertainment and were nominated for a 2022 Humanitas Prize for Comedy Teleplay for their work on SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE. Paul and Hannah have also written for HBO’s HIGH MAINTENANCE and Amazon’s MOZART IN THE JUNGLE, and developed pilots for HBO, FOX, Paramount, and Amazon. The duo received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for “Best First Screenplay” for their feature DRIVEWAYS (dir. Andrew Ahn) which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (North American premiere at Tribeca Film Festival). Along with Oliver Butler and Hannah, Paul was founder/co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society, a multiple-Obie award winning, Brooklyn based theater company. MORE
Sam Ernst
Showrunner, Amazon's CROSS, 7 pilots
Sam Ernst is currently a Co-Showrunner on season two of Amazon's CROSS. He was an Executive Producer on season one and before that, an EP on Amazon's CARNIVAL ROW with Orlando Bloom. He wrote on Apple TV’s TRUTH BE TOLD with Octavia Spencer, was Co-Executive producer for Marvel’s DAREDEVIL (Netflix), Co-Executive Producer of HAND OF GOD (Amazon) and the co-creator/Executive Producer of SyFy Network’s HAVEN, based on a book by Stephen King. Sam also sold seven pilots FX, Amazon, Apple, and ABC. He has been on staff for THE DEAD ZONE, and Consulting Producer on NBC’s CRISIS, starring Gillian Anderson and Dermot Mulroney. He’s also worked for Legendary Studios, 20th Century/Fox, Lionsgate, FX, ABC Studios and Entertainment One. He's written SHREK video games for Activision, DEFENSE GRID Video games for Hidden Path Entertainment. MORE
Sera Gamble
Showrunner, YOU, THE MAGICIANS, EP, PHYSICAL
Sera Gamble is the Creator and Executive Producer, with Greg Berlanti, of YOU (Netflix), based on Caroline Kepnes’s acclaimed novel of the same name. The series, which stars Penn Badgley, is one of Netflix’s most watched series and one of the most critically acclaimed. Gamble wrote and executive produced THE MAGICIANS (Syfy), a series she co-created with John McNamara, based on Lev Grossman’s bestselling novels. She was an Executive Producer of the Apple series PHYSICAL starring Rose Byrne and earlier served as writer and executive producer of the NBC series AQUARIUS, starring David Duchovny. She wrote and produced the cult CW series SUPERNATURAL for its first seven seasons, running the show in seasons six and seven. Gamble also writes essays, poetry and fiction. Her poems have recently appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, Harpur Palate, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice. Her stories have previously appeared in the Best American Erotica series and in journals such as Washington Square and Nerve. MORE