THE INTERVIEWEES
These are the writers, actors, producers and commentators, who help tell the story of what happened and why, in Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike.
Miranda Banks, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual and Media Arts
Emerson College
Author of:
The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild
Christopher Barrett
President Metropolitan Talent Agency
President and CEO of MTA Interactive
Justine Bateman
Actor and Writer
Credits Include:
Family Ties, Modern Family
Desperate Housewives, Californication
Wizards of Waverly Place
Kai Bowe
Writer and Producer
Credits include:
“America’s Next Top Model”, Big Smo
Airport 24/7, Pageant Wives, Tia and Tamera, Lisa Raye: The Real McCoy 2
Breaking Down the Bars
John Bowman
Writer, Producer
2007 WGA Negotiating Committee
Chairman
Credits Include:
In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Saturday Night Live
Harlan Ellison®
Writer
Awards Include:
4 Writers Guild of America Award, 2 Mystery Writers of America Awards
Credits include:
“Star Trek, Babylon 5,The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,The Flying Nun, The Man From Uncle, Burke's Law, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Web of the City, The Man with Nine LIves,
Jonathan Fernandez
Writer, WGA Negotiating Committee Member
Credits Include:
Star Trek: Enterprise
Rob the Mob
Jonathan Handel
Contributing Editor The Hollywood Reporter Entertainment and Technology Lawyer
Author of:
Entertainment Residuals: A Full-Color Guide,
The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis
Hollywood on Strike!
Peter Hankoff
Writer and Producer
Credits Include:
Pearl Harbor Declassified; Crimes of the Century; Hitler's Hidden Holocaust; Unsolved History; A Day in Their Lives;
Killer Deal
Peter Hyoguchi
CEO and Co-Founder Strike TV
Credits Inlude:
Creepy Caress
Dwelling
Unknown” Sender
Christopher Knopf
Writer,
President Writers Guild of America West 1965-67
Credits Include:
Equal Justice ;Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color; Peter and Paul; The Danny Thomas Hour; The Big Valley
Ken LaZebnik
Writer
Credits Include:
When Calls the Heart, A Prairie Home Companion, Star Trek: Enterprise;Touched by an Angel
Cynthia Littleton
Editor in Chief Television Variety
Author of:
TV on Strike
Season Finale: the Unexpected Rise of the
WB and UPN (with Susanne Daniels)
Keith McNutt
Director The Actors Fund Western Region
Former Positions:
AIDS Initiative in New York
National Grant Committee of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Howard Rodman
WGA West Vice President 2011-Present
Trustee of the Writers Guild Foundation
Professor USC School of Cinematic Arts
Credits Include:
August, Savage Grace,Takedown,
Joe Gould's Secret, The Hunger, Fallen Angels
Alan Rosenberg
Actor, SAG President 2005-2009
Credits Include:
Luck, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Guardian, Cybill, Murphy Brown,
Cloned, The Last Temptation of Christ
Jason Ross
Writer,
WGA Negotiating Committee Member
Winner:
7 Emmy Awards
1 Writers Guild of America Award
Credits Include:
The Daily Show, The Tonight Show with
Jimmy Fallon
Patric Verrone
President Writers Guild of America, West 2005-2009, Writer
Awards incude:
2 Primetime Emmys, 1 Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award
Credits Include:
Futurama, The Simpsons, Muppets Tonight, Pinky and the Brain, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson