NEW! INTRO TO SCREENWRITING with Jessica Rotondi, Writer, Director and Casting Director

Thursday, September 18, 2014, 4pm ET / 1pm PT

Our new screenwriting intensive is PERFECT for actors who want to create their own projects.

Jessica will cover an overview of the different plot structures for feature scripts, short scripts, and webseries pilots. She'll coach you on which ideas are good for which mediums, how actors can create compelling protagonists that are right for them as actors, how to focus your ideas, what makes scripts "sellable", writing exercises to get your "writer brain" working, and much more.

Jessica is a working writer, director, actress, and casting director. She feels working in multiple disciplines only strengthens her abilities. She's worked for a variety of production companies and casting directors, including Magnet Entertainment where she assisted on the film Adaptation. She graduated with her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA in Film from the Columbia Grad Film program. Many of her past projects have been honored in festivals and script contests. She also recently had a webseries she writes for optioned by the BET Network. Some other career highlights include: Semifinals in the Sundance Writers Lab, a Student Academy Award Nomination, a Finalist two times in The New York TV Festival, and a Finalist in The TV Guide Writing Contest.

For the last few years she's worked as a Screenwriting Teacher and Script Doctor for a number of schools and companies. She is currently developing a new TV pilot and two feature scripts, and had a feature script she wrote optioned by an established production company.

Jessica Rotondi

Jessica is a working writer, director, comedian, actress, and casting director. She feels working in multiple disciplines only strengthens her abilities. She’s worked for a variety of production companies and casting directors, including Magnet Entertainment where she assisted on the film Adaptation.

She graduated with her BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA in Film from the Columbia Grad Film program. Many of her past projects have been honored in festivals and script contests. She also had a webseries she writes for optioned by the BET Network. Some other career highlights include: Semifinals in the Sundance Writers Lab, a Student Academy nomination, an Audience Choice Award in the Columbia Film Festival, and an award in the New York TV Festival (NYTVF). 

For the last few years she’s worked as a Screenwriting Teacher and Script Doctor for a number of schools and companies.Most recently she has been a professor for screenwriting, directing, producing and directing actors for New York Institute of Technology, Hofstra University and Five Towns College. She is currently developing a new TV pilot and writing a feature script for an LA production company. She also does standup comedy and has performed all over NY and LA, including at many of the top comedy clubs.