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Fox Leisure has named HaJ, Allison Jackson, Michelle Lesley Johnson and Nicole Jones-Dion the Fellows for its 2022 Fox Writers Incubator initiative. The 4 writers have been decided on from over 1300 submissions.
The Fox Writers Incubator seeks to enhance various and artistic voices and supply coaching the 4 writers throughout all genres starting from comedy, drama and animation. Fox published the guys on Thursday.
“The release of the FOX Writers Incubator has resulted in a document choice of submissions from aspiring writers with an improbable quantity of ability,” stated Michael Thorn, President, Leisure, FOX Leisure. “A heartfelt ‘thanks’ to everybody who submitted and we proudly congratulate HaJ, Allison Jackson, Michelle Lesley Johnson and Nicole Jones-Dion on their Fellowships. We’re assured their ingenious trips and distinctive voices will additional make stronger our pipeline of authentic storytellers.”
Within the initiative, the Fellows will take part in a three-month workshop fascinated with honing writing talents, skilled building and the exploration of the trade of media and leisure. The 4 decided on Fellows may also obtain one-on-one mentorship alternatives with Fox executives. Upon final touch of this system, Fellows might have the option to paintings throughout FOX Leisure presentations.
Persevered Thorn: “As we proceed to pursue our dedication to variety and inclusion all the way through Fox Company, the Fox Writers Incubator initiative is an improbable addition to these efforts. We congratulate the 4 writers who have been named Fellows on this inaugural season, and we stay up for their contributions and to them becoming a member of the FOX circle of relatives.”
Learn extra in regards to the 4 FWI Fellows underneath:
ANIMATION
HaJ
HaJ is an award-winning author who could also be a manufacturer, director, performer, and the founding father of TICKLES.TV, a multi-media manufacturing corporate with greater than 40 authentic comedic cartoon movies created and disbursed to greater than 20 million audience since its founding. In 2016, she created the award-winning, one-woman degree display about individuals who code-switch, “Funnel Cake Plants & The City Chameleons,” which debuted Off-Broadway and received the Very best Creator award. MadameNoire named HaJ one of the vital Most sensible 15 Tech & Branding Gurus for the interactive movie “HERadventure,” which she produced and co-created with movie and TV director (and mom) Ayoka Chenzira (“Trinkets,” “Dynasty,” “Queen Sugar,” “4400”). Lately, HaJ is an government manufacturer on THE YEAR BETWEEN via Alex Heller that includes Steve Buscemi this is these days in post-production. She could also be serving because the dramaturge at the new Broadway display POTUS written via Selina Felinger directed via five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman (The Manufacturers) starring Vanessa Williams, Julianne Hough, and Rachel Dratch. HaJ gained her B.F.A. in performing from Carnegie Mellon College.
COMEDY
Allison Jackson
Allison Jackson is a Los Angeles primarily based screenwriter who writes humorous presentations about Black girls in not-so-funny scenarios. Firstly from a the city of 3 thousand in Ohio, Jackson evolved her love for screenwriting whilst running in China, and discovered Mandarin via gazing Chinese language duration dramas. She then attended the American Movie Institute, the place she studied screenwriting and evolved her voice for writing nerdy, humorous, Black characters. She has labored as a Writers’ Assistant for Amazon and as a showrunner’s assistant on an HBO comedy display. Her comedy pilot, “Sufficient,” was once decided on for the second one spherical of the Sundance Episodic Lab, and her function, “Consider the Hype,” was once decided on for the second one spherical of the Sundance Construction Monitor.
DRAMA
Michelle Lesley Johnson
Michelle Lesley Johnson graduated with Difference from The College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She additionally holds an M.A. in training from the College of California at Berkeley. Her authentic pilot, “The 5th Quarter,” complex to the second one spherical of the 2020 Sundance Episodic Lab. At the energy of “The 5th Quarter,” together with every other authentic pilot, “HipHop Top,” she was once a 2021 Disney Basic Leisure Content material Writing Program Semi-finalist. Her writing credit come with “Let’s Keep In combination” (BET), “Meet The Browns” (TBS) and “Area of Payne” (TBS). She these days works as a script coordinator, on presentations together with Season 4 and 5 of the Emmy-winning drama, “The Handmaid’s Story,” (MGM/Hulu) and Season One in all “BMF” (Lionsgate/Starz).
Nicole Jones-Dion
A graduate of Duke College, Nicole Jones-Dion has written, directed and/or produced quick shape tasks for the SyFy Channel, Lionsgate, Sony and extra. Nicole was once in short within the Military sooner than shifting to Baton Rouge, the place she helped expand one of the vital first interactive multimedia coaching techniques for Swiss pharmaceutical large Ciba-Geigy. She relocated to Los Angeles, the place she labored in video video games and e-commerce sooner than switching to engineering tool. She spent the majority of her skilled occupation with Dassault Systemes as a advertising and marketing supervisor for a number of in their manufacturers, together with the SolidWorks and COSMOS product strains, the place she evolved the entirety from buyer case research to tutorial movies.
