Writing for the Small Screen with Chisa Hutchinson
Have an idea for a TV series? Fab. Let’s write it.
Course Summary
Have an idea for a TV series? Fab. Let’s write it. In this weekly 2-hour, workshop-style class, you will lay the foundations for your series down on the page before writing either one 60-minute pilot or 30-minute pilot plus the second episode.
This is a 6 week class happening every Monday, 6-8pm ET, July 7 - August 11, 2025, 6-8pm.
Your passion for the craft and dedication to teaching have reminded me just how impactful storytelling can be, and it’s something I’ll carry with me wherever my path leads."
Lauren Cardone
Former Student
Chisa Hutchinson
(B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A NYU - TSoA) has presented her plays, which include She Like Girls, Somebody’s Daughter, Surely Goodness & Mercy, Whitelisted and Dead & Breathing at such venues as Alley Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Contemporary American Theater Fest, the National Black Theatre, Second Stage, and Arch 468 in London. Her radio drama, Proof of Love, can be found on Audible (with a boss rating). She’s been a New Dramatist, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Lark Fellow, a Humanitas Fellow, a NeoFuturist, and a staff writer for the Blue Man Group. Chisa has also won a GLAAD Award, a Lilly Award, two New York Innovative Theatre Awards, a Helen Merrill Award, and the Lanford Wilson Award for her work in theater. Lately, she’s been venturing into film and television. She’s been staffed on two television series—Three Women (Starz) and Tell Me Lies (Hulu)— and is just getting back to work on her pan-African heist film with SuperSpecial for Orion as well as her biopic for Gosnell Duncan, the paraplegic, Grenadian immigrant who invented the modern silicone dildo. Her first original feature, THE SUBJECT (starring Jason Biggs and Aunjanue Ellis), in which a white documentarian deals with the moral fallout from exploiting the death of a black teen, is available on various VOD platforms after a successful film festival circuit during which it won over 30 prizes.
To learn more, visit www.chisahutchinson.com
