New Screenwriters on Breaking In
Welcome to New Screenwriters on Breaking In, a show about how BIPOC women are breaking into screenwriting today. I'm Priscilla Nguyen, a pre-WGA writer, and in each episode you'll hear from a working writer who broke in within the previous five years about how they buckled down, found their reps, and got their first job. If you want to know how writers are breaking in - not twenty years ago, but today - this show is for you.
New Screenwriters on Breaking In
Kelechi Urama on starting out in Pittsburgh and getting repped off the Black List
Kelechi Urama staffed off a hot new pilot that had just been optioned. But first she had to drop out of Fordham, transfer to Pittsburgh, and finally move to LA. We'll talk about how she got stuck working admin, used the pandemic to write three new pilots, and got repped off the Black List. I'm Priscilla Nguyen, a pre-WGA writer, and you're listening to NEW SCREENWRITERS ON BREAKING IN.
Kelechi Urama is a Nigerian-American screenwriter from Maryland. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Communications, and moved to Los Angeles a year later. In 2020, she wrote a comedy pilot called I NEED BLACK FRIENDS, which got her a manager and an option agreement with Party Over Here and CBS Studios. In 2021, she became a Staff Writer on RUN THE WORLD.