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How To Write & Produce Your Own Sit-Com (Silvia Manning Interview)

silviamanning85-115.jpgSilvia Manning is an American actress who decided she was going to write her own sit com, and was going to get it on screen, and nothing was going to stop her. Listen to her in conversation with Sally Brockway as she describes the process, from those early days of having an idea and nothing else, all the way through to selling the thing to a network and getting it all in the can.

You might remember Silvia Manning from the Walker Texas Ranger tv show, or you might have caught her as in the film 'Screen Door Jesus'; but recently she has shown a whole different set of talents as a writer and producer. In the last year she has been working hard on her own sit com, and has the scars to prove it. Just before the show goes into production she managed to find time to give us this interview. 

Hear all about: 

  • How Silvia took the show from the first rough sketch of a premise through to a script, through to pitching it to the networks, through the ups and downs of the entire commissioning process right through to the cameras rolling.
  • Her instinctive writing process, how she writes by tapping into her inner visualisations and dreams
  • The value of writing for local theatre as a way into the industry
  • How just because a film script gets rejected doesn't mean it's dead
  • The epic story of putting finance together in the first place - and holding it there for the length of the project
  • How you tell if your comedy is funny - or dead in the water
  • The unarguable value of playing to your strengths as a writer

And much, much more!

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