Half-Hour Cable & Streaming Comedies and Dramedies, BIPOC stories set firmly in underrepresented genres (with BIPOC leads in Sci-Fi, Action, Western, Comedy, Horror, etc.), One-Hour Streaming Dramas. Would love to work with more Black female writers for all the genres I've listed. I LOVE anything that subverts familiar genre tropes!
Examples of shows I gravitate toward: THE BEAR, BETTER CALL SAUL, BLACK BIRD, BREAKING BAD, BUPKIS, FATAL ATTRACTION, I LOVE THAT FOR YOU, INVINCIBLE, THE MANDALORIAN, MAD MEN, MIRACLE WORKERS, PEACEMAKER, POKER FACE, RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES, THE LAST OF US, THE SOPRANOS, STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, SUCCESSION, WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES, WE OWN THIS CITY, WINNING TIME, and of course, REACHER and FUBAR!
Animation (family-friendly)
Dystopian
Fantasy
Hallmark/Lifetime films or TV shows
Holiday
Musical
Romance or Rom Com
Spiritual
Supernatural
YA
Michael J. Gutierrez is a Los Angeles based writer that was a finalist in the Disney/ABC, NBC and Universal Animation writing fellowship programs. He was an inaugural fellow in the Circle of Confusion Writer Discovery program and most recently has written for FUBAR and REACHER.
