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SUMMARY:Artist Spotlight Q&A with Ronald McCants on Starting a Career as a TV Writer
DESCRIPTION:How do I start my career as a TV writer? A question you’ve probably asked yourself many times over. In this artist spotlight session you’ll have an opportunity to chat with a professional tv writer as he discusses his journey to the screen.\n\nThis session is an Artist Spotlight Q&A session with writer and producer  Ronald McCants  \n\nRon has written for NBC, ABC and Disney on shows like Chicago Fire, Speechless and many more!\n\nWherever you are on your screenwriting journey, check out this series.  Also if you have pages you’d like table read, send us a note to admin@blacktvfilmcollective.org ( mailto:admin@blacktvfilmcollective.org ) and we will help put together a reading!\n\nLike this event? Check out other upcoming events ( https://www.blacktvfilmcollective.org/events/ ) and member opportunities.\n[kleo_divider type=”full|long|double|short” double=”yes|no” position=”center|left|right” text=”” class=”” id=””]\n \n\n\n \nAbout Ronald McCants\n \n\nRon writes dramas that explore the human experience. His stories are often fueled by\ndark secrets and deep shames at the intersection of crime and family because his\nfamily’s full of addicts, pimps, prostitutes, murderers, CIA operatives, business\nowners, professional athletes, detectives and educators straight out of a Flannery\nO’Connor novel. Ron’s a TV writer because he didn’t know any better. He’s from a\nsmall town in Missouri where its chief exports are cotton and violence. He has 9\nsiblings and lucked out when some college named Dartmouth sent him a free\napplication, and he began his odyssey. When you have 9 siblings and are from the\ncorner of Nowhere and Nothing, your main goal when you leave home is to survive.\nWhile Ron received a B.A. in Engineering from Dartmouth College, the college\nunexpectedly taught him how to dream. Ron had severe difficulty with verbal and\nwritten communication, but he took a writing course every term. He wanted to take\nhis greatest weakness and make it a strength. While honing the craft, Ron worked in\nfinancial planning, private equity, information management, biotechnological\nengineering and business development. He moved to California for an M.F.A. in\nPlaywriting from UC, San Diego. He became an award-winning playwright, got\nmarried, had two girls and broke free from the talons of poverty. In 2016, he was\nselected as a Disney ABC Program Writer and staffed on Speechless. Ron’s still a\nfearless adventurer with no map who’s got grit in his crawl. He was most recently a\nstaff writer on Chicago Fire, but he’s written a music video for Nas and worked on\nMarvel’s Falcon and The Winter Soldier. He runs an organization aimed at improving\nthe career outcomes of marginalized writers through data. He loves the gym and plans\nto compete in his first bodybuilding competition in 2020.\n
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