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Access Without Agents: The Writerpreneur Path

Programs

Access Without Agents: The Writerpreneur Path

You can have agency and autonomy over your career. There’s even a hashtag for it: #writerpreneur. If you want to move faster and chart your own course inside the traditional Hollywood system, it’s time to become one.

Creator of the Amazon Prime show 37 Problems, Lisa Ebersole empowers writers and filmmakers with the knowledge that there are ways forward in this industry without reps. But it requires creatives to understand that they have to be businesspeople at least 50% of the time.

Join Lisa for a frank discussion of how you can become a paid working writer or paid indie filmmaker in Hollywood without waiting to be “chosen” by gatekeepers.

About the speaker

Lisa Ebersole is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. She is best known for the comedy series 37 Problems, which launched on Amazon Prime and was recently acquired by Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaha and Xfinity/Comcast. Lisa is currently pitching a multi-platform half-hour with actor/producer Eric Balfour (Six Feet Under, 24, Haven) that utilizes the latest social and live video tools.

Before moving to LA, Lisa was a playwright in New York for ten years. Her last play starred Buck Henry and Holland Taylor. Lisa’s plays are published by Samuel French, and Smith & Kraus.

Lisa co-founded The Writing Intensive with producer Tom Nunan, best known for the Oscar winner, Crash. Prior to her work in entertainment, Lisa was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the kids site, BrainPOP.com, where she wrote hundreds of animated movies and ran the writing department for 8 years. She produced the inaugural iPhone and iPad apps for Disney Interactive.

Lisa grew up in Washington DC and currently lives in Venice, CA, but still considers New York City home.

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