About the Class

Write an episode of your favorite show with an actual television writer. Over the course of ten weeks, you’ll walk away with the tools to write a television script and have a partial or full sample episode of your favorite show (depending on if you do work outside of class)! Writing television is fun, collaborative, and a creative new way you use your brain!

Meet Lanie

Lanie Siegel is a professional television writer. She’s written on shows including The Neighborhood (CBS), Act Your Age (Netflix), and has a few features in development. She knows the ins and outs of writing television and loves television more than anything. She is excited to share her knowledge with you!

What You’ll Learn Each Week

1. Talk about TV shows, premises, pick your TV show
2. Figure out the premise of your episode
3. Build out the premise and storylines
4. Learn TV script structure, watch an episode of your show and create a blueprint
5. Outline your script based on the show’s structure
6. Continue outlining
7. Learn how to write in the characters’ voices, start writing the script
8. Learn joke structure, continue writing
9. Continue writing, give notes/feedback
10. Share scripts, assign parts and perform them!

Come to Class With

• A few ideas of shows you might want to write an episode for
• Your creative, unique brain!
• Have the necessary streaming service to watch a few episodes of the show you love for structure and voice purposes
• (optional) Final Draft screenwriting software, or free screenwriting software, or Google Docs/Word is fine!

Dates

The 10-class course will begin on September 9th at 3pm PT and run weekly with two weeks we'll skip (Sept. 23 and Oct 14). The last class will be on November 25th. Each class will be one hour long.