Meet the Writers Behind Broadcast’s Biggest Hit

EMPIRE rulez. Which means that if you’re interested in writing for TV you should be interested in how the show’s writers became almost instant Hollywood Royalty. Therefore:

thr_empire_writers_roomby Lacey Rose

The writers room responsible for Fox’s hip-hop soap opera Empire is every bit as diverse as the juggernaut itself.

“We’ve got African Americans, Latinos, white writers — it’s this really cool blend of America,” says co-creatorDanny Strong, who spends his days in the Beverly Hills writers room with showrunner Ilene Chaiken and a newly expanded writing staff of 12 crafting the hit series’ melodramatic plot twists and tight, delicious dialogue. read article