Jennifer Monteagudo
jmonteagudo@g.ucla.edu
The Denver Portland Show
1/2-hour comedy
When her show is cancelled, teen star Denver Portland finds herself out of work, out of stardom, and attending real high school for the first time. Now she must learn how to adjust her celebrity attitude, lower her expectations, and navigate a world she’s only known through TV.
Joy, FL
1-hour dramedy
When Cuban-American family the Morejóns move from Miami to the isolated community of Joy, they become enchanted by its WASPy charm. Except that is, for 16-year-old Bianca, a Santeria-practicing witch, who sees the charm for what it really is: an actual magic spell, which she must counter before her family loses their identity forever.
Alma Mater: NYU
Inspiration: I’m inspired by the voice and activism of Tanya Saracho, who uses her leverage in Hollywood to increase Latino representation in the industry.
Bio: Jenn is a Cuban-Colombian writer who grew up in Miami, FL. She studied Journalism and Politics at NYU before moving to California to pursue TV writing because of a dream. Not a pie-in-the-sky dream, but a drool-on-the-pillow dream: she dreamt a full-on spec episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and decided then and there that yup, this was her destiny. Jenn also studied Sketch Writing at UCB before pursuing her masters in Screenwriting at UCLA. She is the recipient of the Cheech Marin Scholarship.
jmonteagudo@g.ucla.edu
The Denver Portland Show
1/2-hour comedy
When her show is cancelled, teen star Denver Portland finds herself out of work, out of stardom, and attending real high school for the first time. Now she must learn how to adjust her celebrity attitude, lower her expectations, and navigate a world she’s only known through TV.
Joy, FL
1-hour dramedy
When Cuban-American family the Morejóns move from Miami to the isolated community of Joy, they become enchanted by its WASPy charm. Except that is, for 16-year-old Bianca, a Santeria-practicing witch, who sees the charm for what it really is: an actual magic spell, which she must counter before her family loses their identity forever.
Alma Mater: NYU
Inspiration: I’m inspired by the voice and activism of Tanya Saracho, who uses her leverage in Hollywood to increase Latino representation in the industry.
Bio: Jenn is a Cuban-Colombian writer who grew up in Miami, FL. She studied Journalism and Politics at NYU before moving to California to pursue TV writing because of a dream. Not a pie-in-the-sky dream, but a drool-on-the-pillow dream: she dreamt a full-on spec episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and decided then and there that yup, this was her destiny. Jenn also studied Sketch Writing at UCB before pursuing her masters in Screenwriting at UCLA. She is the recipient of the Cheech Marin Scholarship.