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    Is the TV writers room facing its diversity problem? Playwrights raise the question

    by Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times Nov 22, 2017 2 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Before she agreed to attend a Times photo shoot of playwrights working in television, Heidi Schreck asked her agent for information.

    "I'm trying to get a little more context about the piece, particularly the level of diversity of the names presented. Are you interviewing any other writers or showrunners of color?" her agent emailed, before listing several writers, including Carla Ching, Tracey Scott Wilson, Tanya Barfield,

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