BPS 156: Inside Warner Bros Writing Program with Rebecca Windsor

Today on the show is Rebecca Windsor, the Vice-President of the
Warner Bros. Television Workshop, the premier writing and directing
program for professionals looking to start and/or further their
careers in television.

As an extension of her role developing new talent, Rebecca was
recruited to help launch Warner Bros. new digital content brand
Stage13, overseeing the critically acclaimed short-form digital
series Snatchers, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film
Festival and is available on Verizon’s go90 platform.

Previously, she was the Creative Producing Initiative Manager of
Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program, playing a key role in
coordinating the Creative Producing Lab and Summit, Screenwriters
and Directors Labs, and Episodic Story Lab.

Prior to Sundance, Windsor was Manager of Development at Samuel L.
Jackson’s television company, UppiTV, and at Mandeville Films. She
started her career as an assistant at the Broder Webb Chervin
Silbermann Agency and ICM. A San Diego native, she attended
Northwestern University, where she received a BS in Theatre.

Write For A Warner Bros. Show
Every year, the Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop selects
up to eight participants out of more than 2,500 submissions, and
exposes them to Warner Bros. Television’s top writers and
executives, all with the goal of earning them a staff position on a
Warner Bros.-produced television show. The Warner Bros. Television
Writers’ Workshop consists of three components, all geared towards
preparing the writer for a successful career in television writing:
lectures, a simulated writers’ room, and staffing. The 2021
Writers’ Workshop application closed on May 31st.

Direct On An Active Warner Bros. Set
The Warner Bros. Television Directors’ Workshop is an initiative
that introduces up-and-coming directors to prime time television.
With the backdrop of active Warner Bros. Television sets as the
learning environment, and top television directors,
cinematographers and showrunners as the instructors, those selected
to the program will have the opportunity to participate in a
workshop that is unparalleled in the industry.

Directors will be taken through the full process of episodic
directing, from what is expected during prep, to working
collaboratively with actors and key crew during production, through
post-production. The 2022 Directors’ Workshop opens on January
7th.

Enjoy my conversation with Rebecca Windsor.

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