E26 - Indie Panel: The Journey From Assistant To Staff Writer

The Catalyst Storieroad Institute proudly presents: The Journey from Assistant to Staff Writer. Learn about making the career move into the writers' room at some of the industry's most well-known studios. 

 

Matthew J. McCue is a screenwriter and producer who was born and raised in New York. He's a Fulbright Scholar, Tarot Card reader, and David Bowie fan who once freed a llama from a petting zoo. Most recently, Matthew has worked on 'Hit & Run' for Netflix, 'Pachinko' for Apple's streaming service, and is currently working on 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' for Showtime."

 

Eugene Ramos is a Humanitas Prize-nominated writer from Chicago. He is an alum of Columbia University’s Film Division, the CAPE New Writers Fellowship, and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop. Most recently he was the Showrunner’s Assistant on Netflix’s “Daybreak” and wrote for the show’s podcast spinoff, “The Only Podcast Left.”

 

Alexa Babin is a writer who most recently worked as a Writers' PA on the Netflix dramedy series, Daybreak. She's also worked as an assistant to the executive producer of NCIS: Los Angeles and as a production assistant on a various reality tv shows.

 

Thank you to WDSE-WRPT in Duluth and the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences for supporting Catalyst Storieroad.