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 was born in England to a British mother and New Yorker father, so he said he was always raised to be a polite a**hole. Michael moved to Los Angeles and had barely learned how to tie his shoes (shoutout to the homie Mister Rogers) when his parents divorced. Michael’s father took him aside and bestowed upon the five-year-old the esteemed title of “Man of the House” and instructed him to look over his mother and sister. He took on that responsibility with no questions asked. After graduating film school at Cal State LA, Michael 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 wrote on seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix’s Fubar and seasons 2 and 3 of Amazon’s Reacher, respectively, where he was promoted from a Staff Writer to Story Editor.
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