Fred Rogers Productions (fredrogers.org), the kids’s media group behind a number of Emmy-winning PBS KIDS collection, has fashioned the Writers’ Neighborhood, a five-year initiative centered on figuring out and supporting new and rising writers from underrepresented racial teams as they construct careers in kids’s media.
The eight-week program goals to assist hone the abilities and broaden the expertise of gifted creatives who higher signify the more and more various viewers for the corporate’s personal hit collection, like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Alma’s Method and Donkey Hodie, in addition to that of the broader kids’s media trade.
Within the wake of its profitable pilot in fall 2022, Fred Rogers Productions will settle for purposes for this system’s second cohort from Could 1 to Could 15.
“Many writers in kids’s media are freelancers, so we designed the Writers’ Neighborhood with a twin focus of creating your craft and constructing your profession,” mentioned Ellen Doherty, Chief Inventive Officer, Fred Rogers Productions. “Understanding the best way to write story or develop participating characters is a very completely different ability set from discovering work, asking for and understanding suggestions, or cultivating relationships, and we need to assist our fellows achieve expertise on all fronts.”
The Fred Rogers Productions Writers’ Neighborhood will welcome eight fellows per cohort as they be taught to be intentional of their writing course of, decide context for a collection when they aren’t on a manufacturing employees, and interpret and take notes, amongst different vital expertise, together with the best way to discover and safe jobs within the discipline.
Past the eight-week program, Fred Rogers Productions will provide further mentorship connections and alternatives to interact in trade actions and occasions. Lots of the fellows who participated in final yr’s pilot program at the moment are writing episodes for collection presently in manufacturing at Fred Rogers Productions.
Fred Rogers Productions will host an utility info webinar on April 27, 2023, particulars for which could be discovered on LinkedIn. The Writers’ Neighborhood is open to people ages 21 and older as of the entry date. Different eligibility necessities embrace:
- Should be a citizen or everlasting resident of the US
- Haven’t had in depth media writing expertise akin to having written greater than 4 episodes for a United States-based community or cable scripted/narrative collection
- Determine with an underrepresented racial group (Asian, Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Indigenous, Center Jap/North African, or multiracial).
