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“Telling & Selling Your Story”
May 23, 2015 @ 8:30 am - 11:00 am
Saturday, May 23 – 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. Jen Grisanti Workshop
TELLING AND SELLING YOUR STORY
Jen Grisanti, an international speaker, acclaimed story/career consultant at Jen Grisanti Consultancy Inc., Writing Instructor for NBC's Writers on the Verge, and author of the books: Change Your Story, Change Your Life and Story Line: Finding Gold In Your Life Story, will teach a class about telling and selling your story. Jen will focus on the three areas that have led her writers toward success and that she believes make the difference between a non-working and a working writer.
The areas she will cover include; Writing A Script They Can't Ignore, Developing A Strong Personal Narrative, and Strategy: Action Plan and Creating Your Brand. Grisanti started her career in 1992 as an assistant to Aaron Spelling, who served as her mentor for 12 years, and she quickly climbed the ranks and eventually ran Current Programs at Spelling Television Inc., covering all of Spelling’s shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and Charmed. In 2004, Grisanti was promoted to Vice President of Current Programs at CBS/Paramount where she covered numerous shows, including Medium, Numbers, NCIS, 4400 and Girlfriends.
In January 2008, Grisanti launched Jen Grisanti Consultancy Inc., a highly successful consulting firm dedicated to helping talented writers break into the industry. Drawing on her experience as a studio executive where she gave daily notes to executive producers and showrunners, Grisanti personally guides writers to shape their material, hone their pitches and focus their careers.
Since launching the consulting firm, Grisanti has worked with over 700 writers specializing in television, features and novels. Due to her expertise and mentorship, sixty-five of her writers have staffed on television shows and twenty-eight have sold pilots, four that that went to series.
Grisanti has taught classes for the TV Writers Summit (in LA and London), The TV Writers Studio (in Australia), The Big Island Film Festival, Chicago Screenwriters Network, Scriptwriters Network , Screenwriting Expo, the Great American Pitchfest, the Northwestern Screenwriter’s
Guild in Seattle, and the Alameda’s Writer’s Group. In addition, she has served on panels for the WGA, iTVFest, UFVA, PGA and The Writer’s Bootcamp, telling her story to inspire others. Grisanti attended USC where she received a B.A. in Communications.