VIRTUAL WRITERS ROOM WORKSHOP RETREAT 

FACILITATOR: DAVID WYATT

SPONSORED BY:  

OBS & WGAw

DATE:      JUNE 18 – 20, 2010

LOCATION:              WGAw

               7000 WEST THIRD STREET

               LOS ANGELES, CA 90048

COST:	

               $325 PER PERSON ½ hr. Comedy Specs (REVIEWED SCRIPTS)

$375 PER PERSON ½ hr. Comedy Pilots (REVIEWED SCRIPTS)

$400 PER PERSON 1 hr. Drama Specs (REVIEWED SCRIPTS)

$450 PER PERSON 1 hr. Drama Pilots (REVIEWED SCRIPTS)

                $200 PER PERSON (PARTICIPANT/OBSERVER)

	FULL PRICE REQUIRED IF REGISTER AFTER JUNE 15TH 

               LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE

Friday evening (June 18),  6pm-10pm

Saturday (June 19),  10am — 10pm

Sunday (June 20), 11 am —  8pm

OBS will present another edition of the Virtual Writer’s Room Retreat Workshop facilitated by David Wyatt and Co-Sponsored by Writers Guild of America - West.  This television writing experience inside the writer’s room is different from any other type of creative writing.  This intensive three-day workshop is for writers without professional television experience who want to learn how it's really done.

David Wyatt, in this workshop, will recreate the authentic experience of a professional writers' room to give participants the feel of what it's really like to work in the television industry.   Participants will work together to collaborate on writing for a current television show.  All participants will be encouraged to participate, to pitch ideas, create the jokes/fixes, and to offer plot twists.  In this workshop there are no bad ideas.

The objective of this workshop is that by the end, participants can expect:

Hands-on experience, worthy of your resume, with the television writing process;

Tips and concrete knowledge that can be used when developing future spec scripts, which will get you noticed when you submit for fellowship programs, contests, submit to agents, studios, networks and producers.  You’ll also be privy to insider secrets and knowledge as gained by David for his experiences working on numerous shows.

1. Workshop is limited to a maximum of four (4) writers to submit scripts & eleven (11) participant/observer writers 

2. Prep work – Participants must submit copies of Spec Script by May 30th with six (6) additional copies for workshop.  Additionally, the participants must provide a copy of a minimum of 3- episodes of the show that coincides with the Spec Script on DVD with 3 copies of that show’s script. Pre-workshop meeting Tues., June 1, 2010 @ 7p.m. location TBA.

3. Payment:  DEPOSIT OF $100 must be received by May 22nd to be considered.  Balance Due: On of Before June 1st!  

– Make payment online or via cashiers check or money order to:  

                    Organization of Black Screenwriter’s – ATTN: Virtual Writers’ Room Retreat

                    1999 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018 

If you have questions or need additional information please contact: Jennifer Williams - 626.710.3318

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: 

David Wyatt- WGA Writer/Producer

After receiving a B.A. degree from California State University, Long Beach, David

Wyatt launched his Hollywood career as an assistant in business affairs at Columbia

Pictures Television. A studio vice president recognized Wyatt’s off-beat and raw writing

talents and encouraged him to seek a career in screenwriting. Three specs scripts and

twelve months later, he began work on the Fox comedy, MARTIN, where he wrote four

scripts his first season.

Growing up in the sometimes perilous city of Compton to writing for a living in the heart

of Manhattan, Wyatt has proven that he’s able to absorb his many life experiences, apply

his unique writing talents and quirky sensibilities to an array of projects. He moved up

the ranks working on the writing staff of other successful television series such as THE

WAYANS BROS., COSBY, SISTER SISTER, and WHOOPI were he served as writer

and producer.

Wyatt also found time to pitch and sell freelance episodes for other successful television

series such as LIVING SINGLE, THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR, IN THE HOUSE

and EVE.

The writer/producer has excelled in the world of animation and children’s programming.

He was on the writing staff of The Kid’s WB animation series, WAYNEHEAD, created

by Damon Wayans, and has written for the Nickelodeon the shows HEY ARNOLD,

GULLAH GULLAH ISLAND and served as a consultant on the Nickelodeon series THE

BROTHERS GARCIA. PROUD FAMILY and the Cartoon Network’s CLASS OF 3000

are also on his resume.

Wyatt also invests his time helping other would be writers. He seasonally works as the

television writing professor for Bill Cosby’s Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting

Fellowship at the University of Southern California. He has spoken on many panels such

as the Los Angeles Screenwriting Expo and done writing workshops for the Hollywood

Black Film Festival and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers

(NALIP).

Wyatt is active in the Writers Guild of America, West where he serves on the Committee

Advisory Panel, the Committee of Black Writers, the Trial Committee and previously

served on the Board of Directors Nominating Committee. He was recently a strike

captain and studio coordinator for Paramount Pictures during the recent labor dispute.

The writer has been featured in and written for the WGA monthly magazine Written By.

For his writing on WAYNEHEAD, he received a Prism Commendation for outstanding

effort in addressing the issue of drugs and violence.