TV Writing

CineStory Quarterfinalist

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CineStory TV Fellowship Quarterfinalist

February 2017

Ali’s pilot “44 Steps” was a quarterfinalist of the 2018 CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship in the Original Drama Devision. “44 Steps” is a one-hour legal drama about the personal and professional challenges that face five Supreme Court Justices’ clerks. When conservative Justice Seranno unexpectedly dies from a heart attack, the nation pauses to mourn. The Supreme Court Justice’s clerks, however, have no time to pause. Esther, Zac, Issi, Charlotte, and Jayden- the nation’s most ambitious and promising young legal minds- must scramble to influence a currently tied vote while fighting to keep their jobs in the wake of the Justice’s vacancy. 

 

UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

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Graduated from UCLA’s Professional Program in Writing for Television

December 5, 2016

Los Angeles, CA

Ali is proud to announce that she just received her graduate certificate from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Professional Program in Writing for Television. Over the past ten months, Ali studied TV writing online with top industry professionals. She completed two original pilots and a spec. Her pilot “44 Steps” follows the daily triumphs and travails of Supreme Court Clerks in the wake of a Justice’s death. Her other pilot “Throuple” deals with marital challenges and explores the new frontier of polyamory. Ali also wrote a spec episode for “How to Get Away with Murder.” She is grateful to her professors and classmates for their expertise, collaboration, and insight. Ali is excited to continue pusruing a career as a television writer and playwright, and she is proud to join her father as the second Bruin in the family!

 

UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

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March- November 2016

Los Angeles, CA

Ali is proud to announce that she has been accepted into the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Professional Program in Writing for Television. Over the next ten months, Ali will be studying TV writing online with top industry professionals. Students in this program focus on workshopping their teleplays and the goal is for each student to complete one spec script of an existing television show and two original pilot scripts by the end of the course. Upon finishing the program, Ali will receive a certificate from UCLA. She is excited to begin this journey in writing for a new genre andproud to join her father as the second (quasi) Bruin in the family!