This session format is available only to writers in our Top Tier Program.
Exec will read the first 15 pages of your script and conduct a 20-min. general meeting with you via Zoom.
For me, half-hour cable and streaming comedy is ideal, Comedy and Rom Coms in the feature space. I have worked in animation kids, adult, TV and features and am happy to give feedback on animation writing but also know most people are hired for animation off comedy writing samples.
Colleen is a writer and former film & TV executive living in Los Angeles. Her credits include Head Writer on Nickelodeon’s ZOKIE OF PLANT RUBY, Story Editor and Head Writer for Netflix’s musical comedy series, I HEART ARLO, and writer on Jimmy Fallon’s 5 Sleeps ‘TILL HALLOWEEN animated special based on his book of the same name. She has developed for TV and feature film with Nickelodeon where she had an overall deal, Dreamworks Animation, Netflix and Disney. Her original pilot PUSSIES was selected for the HBO-sponsored WIF & Blacklist TV lab.
As an executive, Colleen worked at Illumination Entertainment on the MINIONS and DESPICABLE ME franchises, THE SECRET LIVES OF PETS, SING, and THE GRINCH and Produced the Secret Life of Pets dark ride at Universal Theme Park. While the Director of Current Series at Hasbro Studios, she produced MY. LITTLE PONY: EQUESTRIA GIRLS, HANAZUKI, THE LITTLEST PET SHOP series, MICRONAUTS and was Co-EP on the HANAZUKI theatrical feature short.
She received her B.S. in Television Radio & Video Production from Ithaca College and her M.F.A in Motion Picture Producing from USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program.
Colleen hails from blustery Upstate New York and lived abroad in Ireland and thus has an above-average ability to survive cold temperatures and make excellent Irish Coffee. She loves writing about broken characters who don’t need to be fixed.
After registering, your confirmation email will contain a link that says "CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS" that will take you to a form where you will submit your material within 24 hours of registering.