Event Date: Saturday, June 17, 2017 Speaker: Lee Jessup Check-in: 12:30 pm Location: CBS Studio Center 4024 Radford Avenue Studio City, CA 91604
In this candid talk with career coach, author and studio & network consultant Lee Jessup, learn the realities, secrets, challenges and keys to going from emerging to professional screenwriter in today’s unique industry climate. During our time together we will explore what it really takes to land representation, get into a feature or television writing program, staff on a television show, sell a spec or a pilot, or land a writing assignment.
Lee Jessup is a career coach for professional and emerging screenwriters, a twice-published, best-selling author, and consultant whose expertise have been utilized by major studios and networks. Lee’s clients include writers who have major spec, pilot and pitch sales under their belts, staffed television writers, television writing program fellows, Hit List, Blood List and Black List writers, as well as writers just beginning to chart their professional course. Lee is the author of BREAKING IN: TALES FROM THE SCREENWRITING TRENCHES (Focal Press) and GETTING IN WRITE: AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO A SCREENWRITING CAREER (MWP). She instructs and mentors writers chosen for Universal Studios’ prestigious Emerging Writers Fellowship, and also consults with NBC International. Lee’s professional background includes a stint as a working screenwriter, a development executive, and the director of ScriptShark.com. Lee is a mentor for Final Draft’s Big Break contest winners, as well as ISA’s Fast Track contest winners. She has appeared in countless screenwriting conferences and panels domestically, abroad, and online, is a contributor to Script Magazine, and has been the interview subject of countless podcasts. Never too far from the industry, Lee resides in Los Angeles with her family.
IMPORTANT:
For security purposes, you MUST REGISTER before 10:00 pm on Thursday, June 15, 2017 – for guaranteed entrance onto CBS’ lot.
**Please note that each guest and/or attendee needs to REGISTER individually.













