This week, we have Shernold Edwards on the beat!

 

SHERNOLD EDWARDS is an award-winning film and TV writer with roots in genre/sci-fi and family drama. Shernold adapted the acclaimed novel A Day Late And A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan (Waiting To Exhale) into a TV movie for Lifetime starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ving Rhames. For that project, she received the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie or Mini-Series. Shernold has also written for the final three seasons of SyFy’s Haven, was a Producer on the third season of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, a Producer on season two of Amazon’s Hand of God (starring Ron Perlman and Dana Delany) and a Consulting Producer on the powerful CBS limited series THE RED LINE, exec produced by Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti, that debuted in early 2019. She was most recently a Co-Executive producer on season three of Netflix's Anne With An E (based on the novel Anne of Green Gables) and is writing a TV pilot for eOne adapted from the bestselling Fiona Griffiths mystery novel series from Harry Bingham. Shernold is currently a Co-Executive Producer on the new hit CBS series ALL RISE that premiered in September 2019. Prior to writing, Shernold was a production/development executive at CTV Network (Canada) where her projects included award-winning TV movies and series like Degrassi: The Next Generation. She attended the Canadian Film Centre's Professional Screenwriting Program and has a Screenwriting MFA from Columbia University.

We talk about:

• the difference between Canadian and American writer's rooms
• why writers need to speak up and advocate for themselves
• why it is helpful for screenwriters should talk about how much money they make
• how a near death experience may have helped her land a writer's job
• the "staff writer's slump"- you need to know this!
• what it was like writing on some of my favorite shows: Instant Star, Degrassi, and Anne with an E

and more!

 

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