Rosanne Welch's video: 06 Inside The Writers Room from There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV

Watch this entire presentation https://rosannewelch.com/2019/05/19/there-and-back-again-writing-and-developing-for-american-television-from-freelancing-to-writers-rooms-dr-rosanne-welch-video-52-minutes/ For more information and videos, visit http://RosanneWelch.com Thanks to the gracious invitation from my SRN colleague Paolo Russo - and a grant he was able to procure (and in the before-Covid time) I was able to spend a week at Oxford-Brookes University working with the screenwriting masters students in Paolo's course. At the culmination of the week, I gave this lecture on how writers rooms worked in the States. Transcript: What happens with writers rooms because this is the place where work gets done. Where stories get told, created, honed, in a particular way. The very beginning, this is what everybody thought. This is a writer's room because comedies did use them. Comedians, we're used to having three or four guys -- generally, always guys -- who travel with them and help them make funnier jokes. In America that was best seen in the Dick Van Dyke Show which you can see on youtube in a million different ways and Sally Rogers was the only woman anybody ever saw who wrote television which was kind of shocking but many women who came later defined her as a role model because that told them they could get in a room someday right? If they found the right kind of guys who would let them in.