The Beat Sheet

Sep 28, 2020

Jacquelyn Revere was born and raised in Inglewood, Ca. Jacquelyn developed a deep interest in storytelling at a young age and theatre became her outlet. A professed theatre nerd, she studied Shakespeare at Oxford University before receiving her Bachelors and Masters in Fine Arts. After graduate school Jacquelyn became...

Sep 21, 2020

This week on the beat, Motion Braithwaite is our guest!

We talk about:

• How her love of poetry helped in her screenwriting journey
• The major differences between playwriting and screenwriting
• The plays she reads to study storytelling structure
• What makes a play becomes a successful film adaptation
• How to co-write a film...

Sep 14, 2020

Baindu Saidu & Courtney Perdue (CoP, Diverse) are a comedy and drama writing team who're currently Co-Producers on BIGGER S2 (BET+). Prior to that they were ESE's on the upcoming GOSSIP GIRL REBOOT (HBO Max), and SW's on TRINKETS S2 (Netflix) and BIGGER S1. In 2018 they were finalists in the inaugural “Script...

Sep 7, 2020

Welcome back to Season 3 of The Beat Sheet! I'm so excited to share brand new stories from Black women screenwriters this season. This week on the beat, we have Meredith Dawson. 

After graduating from Northwestern, Meredith (a Chicagoland native) moved to LA to pursue a career as a...wait for it.... talent agent! Her...