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In The Writers Room: A Workshop with Melinda Snodgrass

Join screenwriter and novelist Melinda M. Snodgrass and Stagecoach Foundation for a one-day seminar exploring life in a Hollywood writers' room. Discover the foundational skills of television storytelling, with a focus on breaking a story and how collaboration, debate, and consensus among a writing staff shape a concept into a script.

This workshop is open to New Mexico residents aged 15 and older. Eight participants will join the writers' room, with ten additional spots for silent observers. Participants must sign an NDA and read a pilot script in advance. Additional applicants will be placed on a waitlist.

MELINDA M. SNODGRASS

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Melinda M. Snodgrass studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna, graduated Magna Cum Laude from U.N.M. with a degree in history and went on to Law School. After 3 years as a lawyer, she realized that while she loved the law, she hated lawyers, so she turned to writing.

In 1988, she accepted a job on Star Trek: The Next Generation and began her Hollywood career. She worked on Staff on Reasonable Doubts, Profiler, Legacy and Wild Cards as well as writing numerous freelance scripts for such show as SeaQuest, Strange Luck, Odyssey 5 and Sliders. She has written six television pilots two of which were filmed — one of which was the pilot for the new Outer Limits series based on a story by George R.R. Martin.

In the feature world she has written three feature films for Disney. She is currently an executive producer on an upcoming Wild Cards series for Universal Pictures and Peacock. Wild Cards is based on a shared world anthology series that she co-edits with George R.R. Martin, and she is one of the many writers contributing to the world of Wild Cards.

She is also a novelist in her own right. She has completed the fifth and final book in her space opera series, Imperials, is working on a fourth novel in the Carolingian series and a fourth novel for her White Fang Law series. All her books are available online, as audio books, and print-on-demand. Presently available — This Case is Gonna Kill Me, Box Office Poison, The High Ground, In Evil Times, The Hidden World, and Currency of War.

For fun she rides her dressage horses, plays video games and spends a lot of time in the gym.

 

Thank you to our partners and sponsors for making this workshop possible!