EXCLUSIVE: Fox Leisure has chosen 4 Fellows for the 2024 Fox Writers Incubator, an initiative designed to nurture various and artistic voices, in addition to present assist to 4 writers of all genres, together with comedy, drama and animation. Ava Anderson, Jon Lazar, Ronald Metellus and Kirsten Rezazadeh-Jakob have been named because the 2024 FWI Fellows. They have been chosen from over 1,400 submissions.
Now in its third yr, the Fox Writers Incubator initiative is a rigorous three-month workshop centered on honing writing expertise, skilled improvement and an exploration of the media and leisure enterprise. It additionally offers its Fellows with one-on-one mentorship alternatives with Fox executives and staffed writers.
Following profitable completion of the FWI, Fellows will work throughout collection produced by Fox Leisure’s in-house manufacturing unit Fox Leisure Studios and animation studio Bento Field Leisure.
“Creating rising expertise by our Incubator initiative creates important alternative for each contributors and our staff,” mentioned Fox Tv Community President Michael Thorn. “By honing the abilities of those 4 promising writers, we’re investing within the artistic neighborhood’s subsequent era and the way forward for storytelling excellence; and are excited to welcome Ronald, Kirsten, Ava and Jon as our 2024 Fellows.”
The Fox Writers Incubator 2024 Fellows:
ANIMATION
Ronald Metellus
Ronald Metellus is a author, comic and actor based mostly in Los Angeles. He at present writes for Bleacher Report’s shortform animated soccer comedy, Gridiron Heights. Beforehand, he was a author and recurring forged member of the late-night present, Ziwe. He additionally labored as a employees author on Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The Information, the place he scored a WGA Award nomination. He lower his tooth at The Onion, writing tons of of headlines for satire the establishment over the course of 4 years, together with the viral Sha’Carri Richardson headline: “Dream Crushed Over Trivial Bullshit Represents Nation Higher Than Gold Medal Ever May.” Initially from Philadelphia, he performs repeatedly on each coasts and yearly co-hosts the range present Black Historical past Month-to-month at Helium Philly.
COMEDY
Kirsten Rezazadeh-Jakob is a Center Japanese author who lately co-wrote episodes of Grimsburg (Fox) and Twisted Steel (Peacock) as a writers’ assistant/script coordinator and is at present on the writing employees of Fox’s new collection, Going Dutch, by the 2024 Fox Writers Incubator initiative. She made her comedy debut within the seventh grade with “Wikipedia Brown,” an “Encyclopedia Brown” satire for the Web Age (paradoxically written in #2 pencil). Kirsten’s tv and have tasks deal with know-it-all protagonists who notice — by humor, coronary heart, and excessive ideas — that they’re simply know-it-somes. Kirsten holds a Screenwriting BFA from USC. Her different room expertise contains American Girl (Paramount Community), Cobra Kai (Netflix), #BLACKAF (Netflix), and The Crowded Room (Apple+).
DRAMA
Ava Anderson:
Ava is an solely youngster, so sure, she has robust principal character syndrome. She studied movie manufacturing and English at San Diego State College. Ava enjoys writing comedy, sci-fi, horror and coming of age tales…something bizarre. Ava additionally has an curiosity in writing for animation. Ava is a member of IATSE Native 871 and at present works as an Artwork Division Coordinator for The Value Is Proper. She has labored on award successful motion pictures corresponding to Barbie, The Fabelmans and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Working within the Artwork Division has taught her the significance of visible storytelling, world constructing and bodily manufacturing logistics when writing her personal tasks. Ava’s horror comedy/sci-fi pilot Snatched is a BloodList 14 Contemporary Blood Choice and is at present on Coverfly’s Crimson Checklist.
DRAMA
Jon Lazar:
Jon Lazar is a Los Angeles-based Latino author/director from NY. He was a Zamboni driver earlier than acquiring his MFA in writing from Columbia College the place he was a School Selects Winner for each his TV Pilot and have movie script thesis. He’s a 2023 Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellow and a 2024 Sundance Episodic Intensive Fellow. Because the nephew of a life-sentenced inmate, in his spare time, Jon volunteers with the Freedom To Select Mission the place he assists within the transformation of the lives of California DOC Inmates by compassionate experiential schooling with the purpose to cut back jail violence and recidivism. His work tends to deal with character-driven crime drama and mysteries with themes of psychological sickness and analyzing familial roots.
