Talk:Anne Cofell Saunders/Archive 1

There is a nice picture of Anne in her interview:

http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/csdaily/trenches/11_10_06_SaundersP1.html

--Deus 10:53, 13 November 2006 (CST)

Wooo, Anne for cameo!! -- Pedda 13:33, 13 November 2006 (CST)

Good example

This article is a good example of a fairly fleshed-out writer article. It even includes a picture. JubalHarshaw 12:36, 22 December 2006 (CST)

And a possible edit by the self-same writer? (The Acofell user with only edits to this page is likely either a fan of her work or her.) I'd of course welcome any assistance the crew/writers can provide regarding themselves, as they don't usually get as much of the limelight but are actually integral to the show and interesting. --Steelviper 14:00, 22 December 2006 (CST)

Second part of interview

Here's the second part of the interview that we should probably reference in this article:

http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/csdaily/trenches/11_10_06_SaundersP2.html

- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 09:42, 5 January 2007 (CST)

Another interview

Purple Prime Time, Spring 2004, Northwestern Magazine

Relevant excerpt as follows:

Anne Cofell (WCAS95) was teaching playwriting at Ohio University before she moved to Los Angeles in 2000 for a short-term gig as a production assistant, "working 18-hour days baby-sitting kids about to go on stage." Next, she got a production assistant job on the improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? where she submitted 40 skit ideas a day.

"I didn't know if anyone was reading them, so I started making them really dirty," she says. "Then when I stopped, the executive producer said, 'What happened to them?'"

She finally started getting ideas on the air, which "gave me hope." But she still had dues to pay, first as an assistant at the talent agency the Creative Artists Agency and then as an assistant to various executive producers on the Fox drama 24, where she has been since the show's inception. After three years she recently landed an agent and is poised to get her first break as a writer.

But in the meantime her job has been an eclectic mix of research, technical dialogue writing, publicity and administrative work, such as answering phones in the bullpen, down the hall from the stage where the show is shot. "Some of the most fun is researching torture techniques," Cofell says. "All I know is I would break like a twig."

Because 24 is about a government counter-terrorist unit, Cofell calls the White House regularly and has intimate knowledge of biowarfare and nuclear weapons. "Today I interviewed the head of the communicable disease program for [Los Angeles] County," she says. "When I first started, I cold-called the CIA and FBI, and they gave me information. I'm on every list, I'm sure of it."

Sometimes she learns a little too much for comfort. Last season, her boss told her, "I need dialogue on how to defuse a nuke, right away," Cofell recalls. "I got a guy from the bomb squad to help, but he kept getting called away on emergencies, which made me really nervous."

While the job has its perks - free food all day long and haircuts by the show's stylist for a six-pack of beer - the work is all-consuming. When she's not in the office, she's writing on her own spec scripts, sample episodes of various shows used to demonstrate her writing.

"Be prepared to focus 100 percent on your career for at least two years," she says to those who want to write for television. "I mean 18-hour days, 100 percent. It's incredibly competitive. There were times I almost stopped and said, 'I can be a playwright and make no money.' There were times when I almost went to lunch and didn't come back because I felt like it wasn't worth it." -- Pedda 09:18, 9 March 2007 (CST)

Possibly move to Source namespace? --Steelviper 09:20, 9 March 2007 (CST)

Sooo... should I create a page Sources:Anne Cofell Saunders (and move this stuff)? Or one for this int only? -- Pedda 09:29, 9 March 2007 (CST)

I'd say create "Sources:Interview with Anne Cofell Saunders on mm/dd/yyyy" or something like that. --Catrope 09:50, 9 March 2007 (CST)

The interview is probably copyrighted by whoever conducted it, so we'd need their permission. Isn't a hyperlink to the original source adequate? --April Arcus 10:20, 9 March 2007 (CST)