Sam Schifrien, Development Executive for RoseyTV
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Webinar hosted by: The Pitch Tank
Sam Schifrien is the Development Executive at Rosey TV, the production shingle of veteran Producer Michael Rosenberg (The Riches, Skins, Hung, Hell on Wheels, The Firm, Rogue). Allen James Roughton is the Stage 32 Script Services Coordinator, a screenwriter, reader and development researcher who has consulted on over 100 projects, scripts, books, comics and films and conducted research on life stories, exposés, professions and locations for development at major production companies. Nick Assunto is part of the Stage 32 script services team and a screenwriter himself. He was previously a reader for the Austin Film Festival, a writer for the 2017 CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, co-host of the Sunday show B.Y.O.T. at UCB, and dabbled in acting, having been featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, an eHarmony commercial directed by Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst (for real), and is infamously known as Tony, the annoying party member from the 'Four Friends' Elder Scrolls spots. Full Bio »
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Development Exec from Rosey TV joins our Panel as we listen and read your pitches live to help educate the Writers' Room screenwriters on what is and isn't working in their pitch.
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We'll take a look at a live pitch for an original super-hero series, a dark show with a serial-killer protagonist, and a period limited series with an evil lurking beneath 1907 San Francisco.
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