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The Business of Building A Screenwriting Career with Lee Jessup - Ep #179

Leslie LaPage

Author of Breaking In: Tales from the Screenwriting Trenches from Focal Press and Getting It Write: An Insider’s Guide To A Screenwriting Career published in 2014, Lee Jessup is a career coach for screenwriters, with an exclusive focus on the screenwriter’s professional development. Her clients include working film and television writers including showrunners and A-list studio writers, writers who sold feature specs, original pilots and pitches to major studios and networks, as well as contest winners, television writing program participants, feature film lab participants and fellows, and emerging screenwriters just starting on their screenwriting path.

In addition to Lee's ongoing work with working and emerging screenwriters, she is an adjunct professor for David Lynch’s Graduate School of Cinematic Arts, mentor Final Draft’s Big Break contest winners, and have been a consultant for NBC International’s sales team and a mentor for Universal’s prestigious Universal Writers Program.