Disney Writing Program Unveils 2023 Participants
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Disney General Entertainment has selected 13 participants for its 2023 Writing Program. The one-year writing initiative, formerly known as the Disney|ABC Writing Program and the Walt Disney Television Writing Program, helps participants secure their first TV staff writer assignments on a DGE series.
Participants also are offered mentorship, advanced professional development and access to DGE’s creative executives, producers, showrunners and program alumni. “The Creative Talent Development & Inclusion team is proud to launch this extremely talented group of writers into the next phase of their career,” said Tim McNeal, senior vice president, Creative Talent Development & Inclusion (CTDI). “The flagship Writing Program is one of the critical ways CTDI connects creative talent to opportunities across Disney and continues to fuel our company’s staffing pipeline specifically for emerging, diverse TV writers.
We look forward to seeing this cohort shape the next generation of producers and showrunners.” The program was the starting point for show creators and co-creators such as Erica Montolfo-Bura (Zoe Ever After), Reggie Bythewood (Shots Fired), Jordan Cahan (Black Monday), Zahir McGhee (Queens), Raamla Mohammed (Reasonable Doubt), Saladin Patterson (The Wonder Years, Dave), Peter Saji (mixed-ish) and Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds); and showrunners Aseem Batra (I Feel Bad), Ayanna Floyd Davis (The Chi), Dailyn Rodriguez (Queen of the South) and Anthony Sparks (Queen Sugar).
Last year’s participants secured staffing assignments on 20th Television’s True Lies; ABC and 20th’s Not Dead Yet and The Company You Keep; ABC and ABC Signature’s The Good Doctor, Home Economics, The Rookie and The Rookie: Feds; ABC
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