My personal interest in NYU’s dramatic writing program stems from an adolescence spent on the fringes of normal. Growing up as the shy, smart black girl in small-town Virginia, I found myself scouring the television or school library desperate to find someone like me, desperate to share in my otherness. But I couldn’t find her. She was trapped in a rejection letter due to her lack of urban flair. Or she was relegated to only providing sassy quips behind the fairer-skinned lead. Luckily, I found a likeness as an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, a palpable sisterhood amongst my peers. Above all, I found my voice, my calling: writing. An NYU graduate degree gives me the best chance to develop that voice, my passion, into a career in the television or film industry.
NYU appears particularly supportive of fledgling writers like me, who have a passion for storytelling, but do not yet have major writing credits. Because I believe that experience is the best teacher, my main draw to the program is the rigorous structure that allows its students to dive right into writing an assortment of actual …show more content…
However, that particular change is slow to affect writers’ rooms or other positions behind the camera. I bring to NYU a unique perspective of the world due to a combination of my race, gender, and an undergraduate degree in the field of psychology. I hope to bring a voice that will be invaluable in the push to stop reducing certain characters to stereotypes. I bring a hardworking and open mind that purposes to create leads that are multi-layered above all. I bring writings that have been influenced by the loneliness and shame I once felt because I could not find representation when I turned on the television. I strive to be that change in the writers’ room, that person that will take extra care of those characters on the fringes of
NYU appears particularly supportive of fledgling writers like me, who have a passion for storytelling, but do not yet have major writing credits. Because I believe that experience is the best teacher, my main draw to the program is the rigorous structure that allows its students to dive right into writing an assortment of actual …show more content…
However, that particular change is slow to affect writers’ rooms or other positions behind the camera. I bring to NYU a unique perspective of the world due to a combination of my race, gender, and an undergraduate degree in the field of psychology. I hope to bring a voice that will be invaluable in the push to stop reducing certain characters to stereotypes. I bring a hardworking and open mind that purposes to create leads that are multi-layered above all. I bring writings that have been influenced by the loneliness and shame I once felt because I could not find representation when I turned on the television. I strive to be that change in the writers’ room, that person that will take extra care of those characters on the fringes of