Marti Noxon & Jessica Rhoades Lead “Torchlighter” Female Showrunners In Discussion About Wage Parity, Diversity & Success – ATX
Marti Noxon and Jessica Rhoades are behind Torchlighter Dinners, a series of gatherings for women in television to talk all things industry – from finding the right agent, creating a diverse writers room to fighting for pay parity. With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic the duo, who became close friends after executive producing together Sharp Objects, took their intimate gatherings to Zoom for ATX, where they invited a group of top showrunners and up-and-coming writers, Tanya Saracho (Vida), Nichelle Tramble Spellman (Truth Be Told), Janine Nabers (Atlanta), Jenniffer Gomez (Vida), Sarah Acosta (Second Wave) and Erika L. Johnson (The Good Lord Bird), to share best practices and common experiences as women in Hollywood.