by TVWriter™ Press Service
Fox Inclusive has named a fellow for its Fox Writers Lab.
Writer Keely MacDonald has been selected from the sixth annual group of finalists and has received a script development deal with Fox Broadcasting Company. A 2012 grad of Duke University, MacDonald became an intern on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow in 2013, eventually graduating to full-fledged writer on show with the season four episode, “Insatiable.”
Launched in 2011, Fox Writers Lab (formerly known as the Fox Writers Intensive) is an initiative designed to nurture writers who have diverse voices, backgrounds and life experiences in an effort to create a strong pipeline of talent for potential staffing on Fox television shows and films.
During this year’s program, the Lab writers each developed and wrote an original pilot script, working with producer Sheila Hanahan-Taylor of Practical Pictures and Kelly Kulchak, head of current programming at Dreamworks Animation. The writing culminated in a “Pitchfest” in which writers pitched their original ideas to network and studio executives.
Other writers who participated in the lab were Arielle Diaz, Brad Marques, Elizabeth Oyebode, Erick Castrillon and Esteban Arango, Jennifer Graham Imada, Lauren Tyler, Mellori Velasquez, Nicky Young, Pilar Valdes, Tania Lotia and Yasemin Yilmaz.
All the writers are being promoted throughout the Fox creative community and submitted for potential staffing on current and future Fox Entertainment productions. This year’s 12 writers were selected from a pool of nominations submitted by showrunners, talent representation and arts organizations across the country, so if you aren’t already a kind of junior showbiz insider, be aware that this may not be the program for you.