Pulling Your Hair Out
24 episodes - French - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPulling Your Hair Out
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#24: Jeremy Hsu
June 05, 2019 13:00 - 51 minutes - 46 MBJeremy Hsu was born – and later, raised. Even though his parents wanted him to be a Certified Public Accountant, Jeremy always knew that he was destined to do at least one of two things: become a TV writer and disappoint his parents. He's been on five showrunner interviews. "Making myself uncomfortable is pretty effective for getting me to do something I don't want to do. Anytime you're uncomfortable, something comes out of it." // Pulling Your Hair Out is produced and hosted by Rich...
#23: Shruti Saran
May 08, 2019 13:00 - 37 minutes - 30.5 MBShruti Saran is a screenwriter and third-culture kid from Ann Arbor, Michigan (by way of India, England, and Missouri). She graduated with a degree in Biology from the University of Michigan and began writing a few years later while working in digital marketing. She loves writing comedies with science-based premises and industry satires about unique workplaces. Her original pilot, BEFORE MARS, a Mars One satire, was a Tracking Board Finalist, Finish Line semi-finalist, and AFF quarterfinalis...
#22: Margot Ye
April 24, 2019 13:00 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBMargot Ye is a South Florida native and first-generation Chinese-American. She spent her childhood dodging piano practice, daydreaming at the pool, and swimming against the current of her large extended family. Putting her best practical foot forward, Margot left her hometown to pursue a business degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. There she quickly realized that finance and accounting were not her calling, but the industry of film and television beckoned. After...
#21: Jonathan Hurwitz
April 10, 2019 13:00 - 43 minutes - 44.6 MBJonathan Hurwitz is a writer living in Los Angeles. Most recently, he was the Writer’s Assistant on Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack,” where he received a Writers Guild Award nomination for his episode, “For The Last Time.” He’d like to thank Beyoncé for her continued support. "If I get stuck, I'll go and run my errands and go through my day as if I'm the main character. I remember being at the grocery store and I was shopping for myself, but I was mentally shopping for him." • Jonathan on In...
#20: Gil Hizon
May 16, 2018 13:00 - 40 minutes - 40 MBGil Hizon is a half-hour writer who was born and raised in the Philippines. A serial monogamist and a child of divorce, Gil is drawn to stories about how people cope with relationship issues. For instance, he believes that people find out who they really are when trying to pick up the pieces after a breakup. The comedies Gil writes tend to be unapologetic, grounded and emotional. Gil has BA degrees in Psychology, Theater and TV Writing/Producing. He’s also a self-proclaimed astrology expert....
#19: Morgan Dover-Pearl
May 02, 2018 13:00 - 48 minutes - 43 MBMorgan Dover-Pearl was born in Austin, Texas but thanks to her adventurous parents spent her early formative years in Spain and Argentina. Morgan’s love for storytelling was first ignited by Argentina’s abundant power outages. She wrote, or more accurately one should say dictated (because let’s be honest, at seven her writing skills were limited) plays for her and her little sister to perform while they waited out the hours of darkness. If only her time in Argentina had been solely plays and...
#18: Rachel Avery
April 18, 2018 13:00 - 41 minutes - 35.5 MBRachel Avery is an award-winning actor/writer/director who recently won the Producers Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival for her work developing and directing the one woman show The Pleasure Project, which just completed a run in Adelaide, Australia. She recently directed, wrote, and starred in the TV comedy Wake Up America! which is now available on Amazon Prime. Rachel’s short film Jet Lag, premiered at the California Women’s Film Festival. She was nominated for Best Director ...
#17: Kara Lee Burk
April 04, 2018 13:00 - 43 minutes - 40.8 MBKara Lee Burk began writing while working with The Second City-Detroit and various sketch comedy troupes in New York City. An alumni of the Warner Bros Television Writers Workshop, she has been staffed as a writer on Romantically Challenged (ABC), Melissa & Joey (ABC Family) and The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (Dreamworks / Netflix). She has developed multiple series, wrote on Hanazuki, a bunch digital shorts for The Littlest Pet Shop (both on YouTube) and is currently a writer for the upcomi...
#16: Nadia Madden
March 21, 2018 13:00 - 46 minutes - 39.3 MBNadia Madden is a former 911 dispatcher turned screenwriter. She’s found success as a Humanitas: New Voices Finalist and Sundance Episodic Storylab Semifinalist. Her law enforcement background finds its way into every script. Nadia often writes about underdog characters, particularly women, who persevere despite their circumstances. And although her San Francisco, Chinatown one-hour pilot is intentionally not laden with martial arts, Nadia happens to hold a first degree black belt in Kenpo K...
#15: Marc Warzecha
March 07, 2018 14:00 - 47 minutes - 47 MBMarc Warzecha is a comedy writer living in Los Angeles. He is a Writers Guild of America Associate Member, and was a writer for Season 2 of Comedy Central's Detroiters. Marc recently wrote for Disney Digital's Babble brand and was a recent finalist in NBC Writers on the Verge and Final Draft Big Break. With The Second City comedy theatre, he is multiple-time Jeff Award nominated head writer/director. His work as a satirist has been featured on ABC's "Nightline," Newsweek magazine, and the Wa...
#14: Jimmy Mosqueda
November 15, 2017 14:00 - 40 minutes - 40.4 MBJimmy Mosqueda is a comedy writer born and raised in the deserts of Southern California, more specifically the Imperial and Coachella Valleys. Yup, he was at Coachella before it was cool. Growing up the youngest son of a large and eccentric Mexican-American family, Jimmy often finds humor in the awkward and embarrassing experiences of adolescence. He pulls from his own life to create characters and situations that are heightened and satirical but remain grounded in real emotion. In 2016, Jim...
#13: Polina Diaz
November 01, 2017 13:00 - 43 minutes - 38.4 MBPolina Diaz is a comedy writer from Russia and Florida. Yeah. She graduated with a BFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC and went through the Warner Bros. Writers' Workshop. She was a staff writer on Fuller House and recently sold a sitcom to the digital studio Astronauts Wanted. She’s currently writing for People of Earth. She’s also a member of UNICEF's Next Generation, a group of young professionals that raise money for UNICEF’s lifesaving work. "When I focused more on mysel...
#12: Thomas Reyes
October 18, 2017 13:00 - 29 minutes - 32 MBGrowing up, Thomas Reyes' Filipino immigrant parents moved a lot. He attended seven different schools, and lived in Las Vegas for seven years, all by the time he was in middle school. As an only child, he could make friends easily, but sitcoms became his surrogate siblings. He attended UCLA and after graduating, instead of going to law school, he studied sitcom writing at UCLA Extension. He has held a variety of positions in both scripted and unscripted television and has written for ISAtv a...
#11: Geeta Malik
October 04, 2017 13:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBGeeta Malik received her Master of Fine Arts from UCLA’s graduate film program in directing. She wrote and directed the viral narrative short, Aunty Gs, which earned a College Television Award (a “student Emmy”) in comedy production from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her short film, Beast, played at Method Fest and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Geeta is a recipient of the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Award, the Coppel Screenwriting Award and the Jack Nicho...
#10: Matt Demblowski
September 20, 2017 13:00 - 40 minutes - 38.9 MBMatt Demblowski is a comedy writer and TV producer who got his start in entertainment as a development executive for Stick Figure Productions, in New York, NY. He conceived, developed and produced such reality series as National Geographic's Repossessed! and American Gypsies, among other pilots and documentary films. Matt's screenwriting has received honors in a number of national competitions including the Austin Film Festival (Finalist, Digital Series), Final Draft Big Break (Semi-Final...
#9: Stephanie Coggins
August 16, 2017 13:00 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBStephanie Coggins spent much of her early life writing stories. As an undergrad at the University of Michigan, Stephanie kept her creative juices flowing by contributing pop culture articles to several campus newspapers, and it wasn’t long before she was accepted into USC’s graduate film program at the School of Cinematic Arts. Since then, Stephanie has participated in NBC’s Writers on the Verge program, has had her work featured in NBC’s annual Scene Showcase in Los Angeles and New York, an...
#8: Ross Zimmerman
July 12, 2017 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBRoss Zimmerman is a TV writer who recently completed writing his second episode of the Disney XD live-action/animation-hybrid kids show Kirby Buckets. He also wrote and produced the pilot for the online series Geex and has pitched an animated series to multiple networks. He has worked on over 28 different film and television productions during the course of his career, including the final season of How I Met Your Mother, as he worked his way up through the ranks from intern to PA to Script C...
#7: Mike Roe
June 28, 2017 13:00 - 42 minutes - 43.4 MBMike Roe is a writer based in Los Angeles. His sitcom pilot, Student Government, made it to the quarterfinals of the 2016 Austin Film Festival screenplay competition. It also received a staged reading at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and a fully staged production at the Pack Theater. Mike writes and performs with Pack Theater house team Dandy and writes for topical sketch comedy show Top Story Weekly. He was also a finalist for NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop. By day, he works as a ...
#6: Paul Ditty
June 14, 2017 13:00 - 47 minutes - 47 MBPaul Ditty is a TV writer. His first writing “break” came in the form of a book when his satire of Nancy Drew books, The Straight Shooter: A Nate Dainty Manhunt, was published in 2010. Most recently, Paul’s dramatic comedy, Thoroughly Mormon Millie, was a second rounder at Austin Film Festival and his Mindy Project spec was a top-three finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break Competition. Currently, Paul lives in Long Beach with his husband Eddie along with their cat, dog and drought tolerant yar...
#5: April Shih
May 31, 2017 13:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBApril Shih is a comedy writer in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Southern California, April attended film school at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She wrote, directed, and produced the indie feature You, Only Better and has produced several plays including the Ovation Award-winning revival of Kiss of the Spiderwoman: The Musical. April spent two years playing professional poker in Las Vegas before completing her degree in English Creative Writing (Playwriting) at Cal State Northridge. April w...
#4: Kiyong Kim
May 17, 2017 13:00 - 28 minutes - 24 MBKiyong Kim was born in Korea and grew up in Los Angeles before going to art school in Boston. He studied Illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art, and took creative writing classes at Emerson College where he first discovered what a script was. After graduating, he moved back to Los Angeles and focused on writing and directing. His first script, Brobot, placed 4th in the Slamdance Screenwriting Competition. Since then, he’s written and directed short films that have won contests, pla...
#3: Melynda Bissmeyer
May 03, 2017 13:00 - 34 minutes - 27 MBMelynda Bissmeyer is a grad of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has developed and managed projects and productions in film, theater and new media for MTV Networks, Blue Man Group and Fox and worked as a freelance journalist for Premiere, Spin, Rolling Stone, Conde Nast Travel and The Village Voice. Her television scripts have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Scriptapalooza, the Page Screenwriting Awards and Final Draft’s Big Break. She currently has a feature in development with producer...
#2: Joanne Lee
April 19, 2017 13:00 - 36 minutes - 27.4 MBJoanne Lee is a comedy writer whose pilot, Unplanned, finished in the top ten of the 2017 Final Draft Big Break contest. She studied improvisation and sketch writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and performed stand up in New York City. She is repped by APA. "I believe ideas are living energies and they come to you. If you don't foster them and you don't commit to them, they'll go to somebody else. I do think it's a magical thing from the other side that you're trying to bring to...
#1: Nihar Patel
April 05, 2017 10:00 - 34 minutes - 26.8 MBNihar Patel has been a writer/producer on comedy variety shows and pilots for ABC, AMC, Nickelodeon, Current, and created scripted series’ for YouTube Channels Awesomeness TV, Rhett & Link, and yomyomf. He has written humor pieces for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Splitsider, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vice.com, and had a feature film script optioned in 2010. He has also worked as a director of TV sketch and field comedy, most recently for TBS’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. ...