Name: Jennifer Monteagudo
Email: jennifermonteagudo@gmail.com
Graduation Year: 2022
Track: TV Track
Short 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.
Title #1: Putting on a Show
Project Type #1: TV - Hour Long
Project Genre #1: Historical Dramedy
Logline #1: When WWII spells the end of her wartime radio sitcom, Shirley Vigueras must fight a sexist entertainment industry, a jealous movie star sister, and a greedy ad exec to pivot her show from radio to TV. However the increased scrutiny of this new visual medium threatens to out secrets Shirley holds with her gay co-star and husband, Ben, and the interracial relationship she shares with Charles.
Email: jennifermonteagudo@gmail.com
Graduation Year: 2022
Track: TV Track
Short 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.
Title #1: Putting on a Show
Project Type #1: TV - Hour Long
Project Genre #1: Historical Dramedy
Logline #1: When WWII spells the end of her wartime radio sitcom, Shirley Vigueras must fight a sexist entertainment industry, a jealous movie star sister, and a greedy ad exec to pivot her show from radio to TV. However the increased scrutiny of this new visual medium threatens to out secrets Shirley holds with her gay co-star and husband, Ben, and the interracial relationship she shares with Charles.
