EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has chosen 4 Fellows for the 2024 Fox Writers Incubator, an initiative designed to nurture numerous and artistic voices, in addition to present assist to 4 writers of all genres, together with comedy, drama and animation. Ava Anderson, Jon Lazar, Ronald Metellus and Kirsten Rezazadeh-Jakob had been named because the 2024 FWI Fellows. They had been chosen from over 1,400 submissions.
Now in its third yr, the Fox Writers Incubator initiative is a rigorous three-month workshop targeted on honing writing expertise, skilled growth and an exploration of the media and leisure enterprise. It additionally gives its Fellows with one-on-one mentorship alternatives with Fox executives and staffed writers.
Following profitable completion of the FWI, Fellows will work throughout sequence produced by Fox Leisure’s in-house manufacturing unit Fox Leisure Studios and animation studio Bento Field Leisure.
“Creating rising expertise by way of our Incubator initiative creates important alternative for each members and our staff,” mentioned Fox Tv Community President Michael Thorn. “By honing the talents of those 4 promising writers, we’re investing within the inventive group’s subsequent era and the way forward for storytelling excellence; and are excited to welcome Ronald, Kirsten, Ava and Jon as our 2024 Fellows.”
The Fox Writers Incubator 2024 Fellows:
ANIMATION
Ronald Metellus
Ronald Metellus is a author, comic and actor based mostly in Los Angeles. He at present writes for Bleacher Report’s shortform animated soccer comedy, Gridiron Heights. Beforehand, he was a author and recurring forged member of the late-night present, Ziwe. He additionally labored as a employees author on Stephen Colbert’s Tooning Out The Information, the place he scored a WGA Award nomination. He minimize his enamel at The Onion, writing a whole lot of headlines for satire the establishment over the course of 4 years, together with the viral Sha’Carri Richardson headline: “Dream Crushed Over Trivial Bullshit Represents Nation Higher Than Gold Medal Ever May.” Initially from Philadelphia, he performs frequently on each coasts and yearly co-hosts the variability present Black Historical past Month-to-month at Helium Philly.
COMEDY
Kirsten Rezazadeh-Jakob is a Center Jap author who lately co-wrote episodes of Grimsburg (Fox) and Twisted Steel (Peacock) as a writers’ assistant/script coordinator and is at present on the writing employees of Fox’s new sequence, Going Dutch, by way of the 2024 Fox Writers Incubator initiative. She made her comedy debut within the seventh grade with “Wikipedia Brown,” an “Encyclopedia Brown” satire for the Web Age (satirically written in #2 pencil). Kirsten’s tv and have initiatives deal with know-it-all protagonists who understand — by way of humor, coronary heart, and excessive ideas — that they’re simply know-it-somes. Kirsten holds a Screenwriting BFA from USC. Her different room expertise consists of American Lady (Paramount Community), Cobra Kai (Netflix), #BLACKAF (Netflix), and The Crowded Room (Apple+).
DRAMA
Ava Anderson:
Ava is an solely little one, so sure, she has robust foremost character syndrome. She studied movie manufacturing and English at San Diego State College. Ava enjoys writing comedy, sci-fi, horror and coming of age tales…something bizarre. Ava additionally has an curiosity in writing for animation. Ava is a member of IATSE Native 871 and at present works as an Artwork Division Coordinator for The Worth Is Proper. She has labored on award successful films akin to Barbie, The Fabelmans and Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Working within the Artwork Division has taught her the significance of visible storytelling, world constructing and bodily manufacturing logistics when writing her personal initiatives. Ava’s horror comedy/sci-fi pilot Snatched is a BloodList 14 Recent Blood Choice and is at present on Coverfly’s Crimson Checklist.
DRAMA
Jon Lazar:
Jon Lazar is a Los Angeles-based Latino author/director from NY. He was a Zamboni driver earlier than acquiring his MFA in writing from Columbia College the place he was a School Selects Winner for each his TV Pilot and have movie script thesis. He’s a 2023 Circle of Confusion Discovery Fellow and a 2024 Sundance Episodic Intensive Fellow. Because the nephew of a life-sentenced inmate, in his spare time, Jon volunteers with the Freedom To Select Venture the place he assists within the transformation of the lives of California DOC Inmates by way of compassionate experiential training with the purpose to cut back jail violence and recidivism. His work tends to deal with character-driven crime drama and mysteries with themes of psychological sickness and inspecting familial roots.
