ON THE WRITERS BLOCK

Niceole Levy paid her way through USC working graveyard shifts as a police dispatcher. Most recently a co-executive producer on NBC’s Found, she’s also written on S.W.A.T., The Recruit, and Cloak & Dagger, and co-wrote the feature The Banker. The author of The Writers’ Room Survival Guide joins Megan to talk about reading and surviving the room you land in, development rooms versus full season orders, and pitching a beat versus pitching your own show. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.comEmail: [email protected]: @onthewritersblocInstagram: @GoldenGrl22Threads: @GoldenGrl22For more about our guest Niceole Levy, visit: www.niceolelevy.comThreads: @niceolecookiesInstagram: @niceolecookies

Paul Guyot spent nearly a decade as a Hollywood stand-in before landing his first writing job. He’s since written and produced over 200 hours of television, from Felicity and Judging Amy to Leverage, took over as showrunner on The Librarians, and co-wrote Geostorm. He joins Megan to talk about what craft really means after all these years, the hard truths in his book Kill the Dog, running a room, and the discipline that keeps him at the page. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.comEmail: [email protected]: @onthewritersblocInstagram: @GoldenGrl22Threads: @GoldenGrl22For more about our guest Paul Guyot, visit: www.screenwritingtruth.comTikTok: @screenwritingtruth

Laura Moran has known she wanted to write since the third grade, when she turned in a twenty-five-page book report on Abraham Lincoln written in crayon. Since then she’s written on How I Met Your Mother, The Neighborhood, Harley Quinn, and Going Dutch, and sold shows to Warner Bros. and CBS. She joins Megan to talk comedy across multi-cam, single-cam, and animation, what it really takes to sell a show, and a watch party of The Neighborhood pilot. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.comEmail: [email protected]: @onthewritersblocInstagram: @GoldenGrl22Threads: @GoldenGrl22For more about our guest Laura Moran, visit: www.lauramoran.comTikTok: @laurampotatoesInstagram: @laurapotatoes

Caroline Renard went from pre-law at FSU to story editor on Disney+’s Secrets of Sulphur Springs, then stepped behind the camera. Her directorial debut, Unbraided, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won Best Comedic Short at the 2024 Micheaux Film Festival. The first-generation Haitian-American writer-director joins Megan to talk about the leap from writing to directing, turning a canceled braiding appointment into a story about Black women and their hair, and building a cast and crew that looks like the story. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.comEmail: [email protected]: @onthewritersblocInstagram: @GoldenGrl22Threads: @GoldenGrl22For more about our guest Caroline Renard, visit: www.caroline-renard.comTikTok: @caroline_renardInstagram: @caroline_renard

Paynudeh Allen got her start in the mailroom. From there, the Liberian-American comedy writer from Maryland worked her way through rooms like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Surfside Girls, wrote a freelance episode of Be@rbrick, and landed a staff writer spot at Nickelodeon. She joins Megan to talk about the climb from support staff, what programs like TRIBE really give you, and her lane: the delightfully mundane and truly weird lives of Black women. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.comEmail: [email protected]: @onthewritersblocInstagram: @GoldenGrl22Threads: @GoldenGrl22For more about our guest Paynudeh AllenInstagram: @pkaresse