Liz Tigelaar '98 and Mikko Alanne '97 will share their stories of how they established themselves as film and TV writers in Hollywood. This webinar will be moderated by Steve Ginsberg, IC Los Angeles Program screenwriting professor and Pendleton Endowed Chair. It is the first of three webinars marking 25 years of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program. We'll feature ICLA alumni working in the Hollywood communications industry. Registration is required through this link: tinyurl.com/HollywoodWritersRoom
The webinar will be held on October 22, from 4pm-5:30 Pacific, 7pm-8:30 Eastern. Q&A will be included!
Liz Tigelaar is a producer and writer who recently launched Best Day Ever, a new production company, which has entered a two-year overall pod deal with ABC Studios. She was most recently the showrunner and executive producer of the Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere, produced by ABC Signature Studios. In addition to Little Fires Everywhere, Tigelaar created the dramatic series Life Unexpected, which enjoyed a two-season run on The CW. She is also known as a writer and producer for such TV series Casual, Nashville, Brothers & Sisters, and Bates Motel. She began her career in 2000 as an assistant on the series Dawson’s Creek.
Mikko Alanne is a screenwriter, showrunner, and producer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for creating the National Geographic Channel's award-winning global event series The Long Road Home, based on the bestselling book by Martha Raddatz. Alanne’s film and television work has often focused on adaptations of true-life stories. His feature films as a writer include the Chilean miner rescue epic The 33, starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, and Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith. Alanne’s most recent documentary film is The Animal People, executive produced by Academy-Award winner Joaquin Phoenix. Previous to his work as a writer and producer, Alanne was a Historical Content Supervisor for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.