NBCU Launch is the umbrella brand that houses the comprehensive inclusion efforts across NBCUniversals entertainment TV portfolio.
Other guest instructors will include showrunners with overall deals at Universal Studio Group such as Patrick Macmanus (PeacocksDr.
Additionally, the writers will participate in self-branding sessions to hone their personal narrative.
NBCUNIVERSAL EVENTS – NBCU Launch, “Writers Workshop, 2024” (l-r): Bixby Elliot, Neda Jebelli, David Loong, Maia Henkin, Helen Fernandez, Domonic Diaz-Smith, Sebastián Rea, Bryce CracknellDanny Ventrella/NBC
Upon completion of the program, they will be considered for available staffing opportunities across NBCU series.
Learn more about the eight members of the 2024-25 class of the NBC TV Writers Program below.
North Carolina nativeBryce Cracknellis a writer, producer and director based in Los Angeles.
Cracknell is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Anthem Award-winning environmental justice publication The Margin.
In 2023, Forbes named him as one of 68 climate leaders changing the film and TV industry.
Cracknell is repped by Kronicle Media.
Domonic Diaz-Smithis a comedy and mystery writer who writes to make people laugh first and think second.
Diaz-Smith is currently seeking representation.
Bixby Elliotis a queer writer for theater, film and television.
Elliots plays have been produced in several major cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and London.
His play I Love You St. Petersburg!
was published by major theatre licensing company Samuel French.
It was also nominated for a Jeff Award that honors outstanding theater in Chicago.
He is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Columbia University and co-founder of The Brooklyn Generator.
Elliot is currently pitching a new half-hour TV show with Byron Allens Entertainment Studios attached as producer.
He also recently finished principal photography on his next short film The Yellow Sponge Is the Dish Sponge.
Elliot is currently seeking representation.
Currently, Fernandez is a showrunners assistant on NBCsSt.
She began her career as an Off-Broadway playwright in New York.
The project she directed premiered at the Oscars-qualifying independent short film festival HollyShorts, and HBOs Catalyst Film Festival.
Henkin is repped by Untitled Entertainment.
Neda Jebelliis an Iranian American screenwriter who has always been interested in telling stories about outsiders and underdogs.
Jebelli was most recently a script coordinator on NBCsThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Jebelli is currently seeking representation.
David Loongwrites genre dramas featuring deep worldbuilding and multicultural, code-switching outsiders.
Born in Hong Kong, he attended high school in Oxfordshire, England before getting a B.A.
in history from Yale University.
He was selected for The Thousand Miles Project, UCPs highly regarded talent incubator.
Loong is repped by Anonymous Content and IAG.
Sebastian Reais an Ecuadorian American writer and director from New York City.
As a queer, Indigenous, Latino immigrant, his stories provide unique perspectives of intersectionality and identity.
Rea was also selected as a Notable Writer at the Outfest Screenwriting Lab with the pilot version ofHeritage.
Rea is currently seeking representation.
