Go Live Life: How Brusta Brown's Journey Through Her Own Crucibles Brings Depth To Her Stories

Oct 26, 2020

Brusta Brown & John Mitchell Todd are a fantastic, diverse writing team who are currently Producers on BLACK LIGHTNING for Berlanti and CW. They also developed a Marie Laveau project entitled THE VOUDOU QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS with Amazon and Fox21 last year. Previously, they worked on the staffs of TAKEN for NBC, SUPERSTITION for USA, and DOMINION and DEFIANCE for SyFy.

We talk about:

• her first tv pilot that ended up being banned
• her identity journey as a Chinese + Black woman and how that helps to round out her character's journeys
• how life experience helps with a writer's depth (no, you're not too old to be writing for TV!)
• what she learned by sitting in on writer's pitches (she gives a lot of gems here about what good pitches look + sound like!)
• why getting staffed before you sell a show may be the move for you

and more!

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