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How has the business changed for writers? Join Alexa Alemmani for a deep dive on writing what you love, and getting paid for it.

How has the business changed for writers? Join Alexa Alemmani for a deep dive on writing what you love, and getting paid for it.

FromHollywood Wolfpack With Kaia Alexander


How has the business changed for writers? Join Alexa Alemmani for a deep dive on writing what you love, and getting paid for it.

FromHollywood Wolfpack With Kaia Alexander

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jul 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Alexa Alemmani started her career as an actor, working in independent features, as well as hit shows such as Masters of Sex, Lucifer, The West Wing & more, she’s most well known for playing Allison on the Emmy winning AMC Drama Mad Men for four seasons, for which she won a SAG Award.
As a writer, she launched her career with the pilot Appletown, which landed on the Tracking Board’s Young & Hungry List. On the television side, with her writing partner, she staffed on TNT’s hit show The Librarians and sold a pilot: Mansfield Park to Tornante Media.
On the feature side, she and her writing partner wrote Something Blue, the sequel to the breakout hit Something Borrowed (Kate Hudson) for Black Label Media, as well as the book adaptation of Serpent’s Bite by Warren Adler (War of the Roses) with Grey Eagle Films. They recently sold their feature I Won’t Be Home For Christmas to UCP for USA Networks. Their feature Lion in the Library is in pre-production with Level Forward & Prodigal Entertainment.
As a producer she has overseen and/or produced ten shorts, and is in active development on two micro-budget features. .
Alexa is an adjunct professor of Screenwriting at USC., and also teaches screenwriting at New York Film Academy for both BFA & MFA students. She has had speaking engagements with Women in Film, Brian Patacca, and Caricon among others. She serves as a Backstage Expert, and was recently a contributing writer to The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writers’ Life In Prison.
She is a graduate of Vassar College with a degree in theater and history.

https://www.alexaalemanni.com/

https://twitter.com/AlexaAlemanni

Connect with your host Kaia Alexander:

https://entertainmentbusinessleague.com/


https://twitter.com/thisiskaia 


Produced by Stuart W. Volkow P.G.A.
Get career training and a free ebook “How to Pitch Anything in 1Min.” at www.EntertainmentBusinessLeague.com

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Released:
Jul 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Hollywood Wolfpack Look behind-the-scenes in the exciting careers of working pros, and find out their secrets to navigate the ever-changing landscape of the entertainment business. Join your host Kaia Alexander, writer/producer and founder of the Entertainment Business School. Find out why in this profession you need a wolfpack. Special guests include above-the-line writers, directors, showrunners, execs, actors, producers, attorneys and more. For more information: https://entertainmentbusinessleague.com/ About Host Kaia Alexander Kaia Alexander is the CEO/founder of the Entertainment Business League and Entertainment Business School. She was a development executive on the feature films JUST FRIENDS, PEACEFUL WARRIOR, THE GOOD NIGHT, and HACHI: A DOG'S TALE. She was mentored by comedian Garry Shandling. She's an award-winning Harper Collins novelist, for her historical novel Written in the Ashes. As an animal lover and native of Southern California, there are always surfboards on her car and fur on her sleeves. She’s proud to be the BQ in LGBTQ. You can find out more about Kaia on her IMDB and Twitter @ThisisKaia Produced by Stuart W. Volkow P.G.A