Topics in Screenwriting: Inside the Writers' Room

A workshop where Showrunner and Stanford alum Cheo Hodari Coker guides a select group of students through the writers' room process: workshopping a single idea into the first act of a television show while also shaping their individual script ideas as a means of teaching basic television writing structure. Students will read and analyze successful pilots as well as learn how to develop outlines, write scenes and do a weekly "table read" of a scene. Coker will also invite working showrunners, in person and virtually, to talk about their process and answer questions about the fastest growing medium in visual entertainment.