Animated Pilot Rewrite Workshop: Improve Your Pilot Script Line-By-Line (Sept 2022)

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Rewrite Your Animation Pilot Script with an Animation Professional and Veteran with 25+ Years of Experience

Animated television is currently experiencing a boom like we’ve never seen before. Shows like SOLAR OPPOSITES on Hulu, CLOSE ENOUGH on HBO Max and BLOOD OF ZEUS on Netflix have joined FX's ARCHER, Adult Swim's RICK AND MORTY and Fox's THE SIMPSONS as juggernaut animated series and the list is only growing. 

The opportunities to write animation may be extra plentiful right now, but you still need to have a dynamite pilot script to present. The old adage that writing is rewriting is especially true for animation and comedy scripts that need to be tight, punchy, and effective in every sense. And since television writing is almost always a collaborative process, a necessary step to making your project successful is to bring in different perspectives, different senses of humor, and some expertise to get the script fine-tuned and to the point where it’s truly special.

We have just the person to help you with this.

Mike Disa is an accomplished director, producer, writer, and artist who produced and directed on shows like THE SIMPSONS and the hit Netflix series PARADISE PD and has been in the animation industry for over twenty-five years. Mike found success working with studios such as Dreamworks, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, and many others. Over a fascinating career, Mike has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Steven Spielberg, Eric Goldberg, Ralph Bakshi, Glenn Close, Steve Oedekerk, David Tennant, Amy Poehler, Adam Sandler, Jeffery Katzenberg and Roy Disney. A favorite and fixture among the Stage 32 community, Mike is deeply entrenched in the world of animated TV and knows better than most what it takes to get an animated show off the ground.

Mike will lead an intimate and valuable writers’ workshop with a small group of students to help rewrite and fine tune each writer’s animation pilot script, line by line. Each session, Mike will focus on 1-2 scripts and work with the group to punch up and improve each. Not only will you receive extended and personalized attention from an expert in the field to improve your own work, but you will also have the opportunity to support other writers with their own projects and learn valuable lessons from the process that you can take back to your own work.

Expect to leave this unique program with a much-improved pilot script, a set of tools you can take with you to better improve and rewrite other projects, and a supportive group of like-minded writers from around the world.

Note: Because this is a rewrite class, you must already have at least a fully written first draft of a 30-minute animated pilot script in order to participate in this workshop

Praise for Mike's Stage 32 Education:

"Mike Disa is the most knowledgeable, helpful, and straightest shooter I've ever met. He helped improve my pilot 1,000%. If you have the opportunity to work with Mike, take it. You will not regret it." - Aimee P.