'Art Directors Guild Suspends Training Program: ‘We Cannot in Good Conscience Encourage You to Pursue Our Profession’

A memo sent to prospective applicants cited 75 percent unemployment in the ADG's ranks.'

indiewire.com/news/breaking-…

My precious perfect followers that I love so much, we need you!! I’ve been paired with this family who recently evacuated Gaza (via a project called Pass The Hat) to get some eyes on their GoFundMe and get them some much needed help. gofund.me/77b575e0

If you're able to give, now's the time:

Via Venmo: venmo.com/u/green-envelo………

Via Paypal: paypal.me/GreenEnvelopeG……

For more info and application status, go to: sites.google.com/view/green-env…

Green Envelope Totals 5/8

12 grants sent!
$3000 raised! (yay!)

$0 remains in the fund (nay!)
420 applications received

all proceeds benefit Green Envelope Grocery Aid mutual aid fund. tix/info here — elysiantheater.com/shows/retrospe…

still some tickets left to join me and Retrospecs podcast for a live table read of my SUCCESSION spec that is an actual retrospective celebration of Hot Labor Summer, in which a ragtag group of brave billionaires & CEOs famously vanquished the greedy creative class

This Thursday, we are thrilled to have SPIDER-MAN 2 video game writer (& legendary fmr Strike Captain) Rob Forman chat with us about WRITING IN GAMING this Thursday! Come thru!

The alternate ending of Spring Awakening

why did they dress jean smart as the daily

Surprise! We made a Star Wars!

.Jackie (Decembly) Penn, a TV writer, talked to Molly Kinder about the Writers Guild of America West strike. Read more here: brookings.edu/articles/five-…

WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN: We are excited to announce that we have a tentative agreement with @condenast on our first contract. Our pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ ahead of the #metgala2024 moved the company and our progress at the bargaining table kicked into high gear…

If Condé Nast employees do strike tomorrow, WGA and SAG owe them to not cross picket lines especially after what we went through last year.

My fav part of the Steve Martin doc is when his adorable wife says, “that’s why I shouldn’t tell this story, you’ll get someone to tell it better” and they hard cut to Eric Idle 😂

“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore” Now why did Burr have to say all that?!?!

Tomorrow (Sunday), join us for a gorgeous day at Smorgasburg LA!! With nearly 100 food vendors, a DJ, a bar, & cornhole, this is our favorite laidback event.

Free to attend & free parking garage (so you can hang even if you don’t want to buy any food).

Hope to see you there!!

Down With Love: The Musical when?!

'We were getting all these awful stories about what it was actually like being at the bottom rung in Hollywood, and it became very, very clear that if we were going to continue the way we were -- paying assistants less and less each year -- we were going to lose the truly…

to celebrate one year of the AMPTP rejecting proposals and refusing to counter I thought I might treat myself to a round of trade articles about how all the current misery in hollywood is actually the writers’ fault and definitely not greedy CEOs and also striking never works

To all of us writers waking up today with ptsd…remember why we fought. Remember those who supported us then and whom we must support now.

One year later, a giant THANK YOU to our sister entertainment unions ⁦SAG-AFTRA⁩ ⁦IATSE // #IASolidarity⁩ ⁦Teamsters⁩ ⁦AFM⁩❤️