Pitch Your Origin Story

Online Classes
Hosted By:
Celena Cipriaso - Executive Story Editor, THE CLEANING LADY, CLARICE
Weekly, starting: Wednesday 01/22 @ 6:30PM - 8:00PM PT
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$149.00

As you meet new people in your career, chances are they're going to want to ask you how you got into screenwriting and why you write what you write. Seems like a pretty simple question, but most of us suddenly get tongue tied and turned around when we try to answer. The good news is, because just about everyone is going to ask you this question, you can prepare an answer for it. Workshop the answer like a pitch and you can leave those tongue tied days in the rearview mirror! 

Join Roadmap Alumna Celena Cipriaso for this three week clinic to get your origin story pitch down for your next meetings! 

This Three Week Clinic Will Cover

  • Identifying your writer origin story 
  • Why you write what you write 
  • Crafting the origin story pitch 
  • Feedback on your origin story pitch

Week One - Identifying and Articulating Your Origin Story

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This week, we will cover how to find your writer origin story and how to formulate your "pitch" of yourself for execs and reps. 

Week Two - Pitch Your Origin Story

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This week, we will practice everyone's origin story pitch and receive the instructor's feedback. 

Week Three - Pitch Your Origin Story

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This week, we will practice everyone's revised origin story pitch and receive the instructor's feedback. 

More about
Celena Cipriaso
Executive Story Editor
THE CLEANING LADY, CLARICE

Celena Cipriaso is a first-generation Filipina/American, who worked on Seasons 1-3 of THE CLEANING LADY for Fox and was most recently an Executive Story Editor. Previously a Staff Writer on CBS/Secret Hideout’s CLARICE, she worked her way up as a writer’s assistant on shows like STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. She was a fellow of the 2017-2018 NBC Writer’s on The Verge Program and was named as one of the up-and-coming TV writers for 2023-2024 Next List by Coverfly and Tracking Board. She got her start in TV helping her grandma learn English by watching All My Children (which she also eventually became a writer for). In another life, she was a pop culture and beer journalist for outlets such as CNN, Slate, and the Root.

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Our vetted executives are chosen by the legitimacy of the companies they work for and their ability to evaluate pitches and pages.

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