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Career. Junge was a writer and producer for Friends from 1994 to 1999, for which she was nominated for three Emmy Awards [ 5] and a Writers Guild of America Award. [ 6] Junge wrote the episode "The One Where Everybody Finds Out", which won the National AOL Poll for "All Time Favorite Friends Episode" [ 2] Her episode "The One with the Prom ...
Alexa Junge. Producer: Friends. Alexa Junge is known for Friends (1994), The West Wing (1999) and Grace and Frankie (2015).
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- What Was Your Big Break?
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I'm impressed by how pragmatic (they are). There's a kind of facility for plotting because the orders for shows are so big and there's a constant hunger, like we have this amount of time, we have this many episodes, we're going to roll up our sleeves and just start plotting. And so I think I'm impressed with the writers that I've met, their ability...
It completely varies, but I tend to spend more time on character and then not really dig into plotting if I can. So that character is creating plot rather than the other way around. And it depends too whether it's a half-hour or hour show because they are different animals. So a half hour is intrinsically more character-based than about cliffhanger...
I would tend to say up to a month and a half if I'm chewing on the characters and the set up. I could do it faster than that, but sometimes I like just having the time to plough the soil, think deeply about the characters, and run it by other writers. But that's not time I'm necessarily paid for. Right now I'm working on two different projects. [Wi...
In our business writers are the most powerful people on the show. We outrank the directors and we creatively outrank the producers. Executive producers and creators of shows have always had the power in our business all the way back to the 70s and Mary Tyler Moore. So if you're a showrunner or show creator you're telling the production art directio...
It really depends on the unique show. So when I worked on Friends we were in the room a lot. Everybody still did have a lot of ownership over their episodes, but there was a lot of room work. When I was on The West Wingthere was not that much room work. The room was used to break story and figure out episodes but it was not a ‘come to work in the m...
My big break was getting hired on Friends. But it was also a big break to get an agent and start being considered for jobs, because in Hollywood when somebody is looking to staff a show they reach out to the four big agencies. Those agencies submit clients. Some agents submit 15 people for the show and then other times they work individually. So if...
I'd had a big theatre agent in New York, but when I moved to California, it didn't transfer. I could not get them to return my calls. And so I just had to start trying to find an agent on my own and pound the pavements and use connections to try to be proactive about getting my material to someone. But it's not easy. I’d already been a head writer ...
If a writer had a project that a producer responded to, the producer could help them find an agent, so you can do it that way too.
It's easy for me to say from where I sit to be yourself and follow your passion, but in Hollywood that's what gets people jobs, because there's a lot of OK writers and there's a lot of reliable, safe, good writers, but there's not that many inspired writers. So actually in a lot of ways it is a meritocracy. I believe the people that are really succ...
Alexa Junge grew up in Los Angeles and attended Barnard College, where she wrote The Varsity Show with David Rakoff and Jeanine Tesori. After receiving her MFA in NYU’s Dramatic Writing program, Junge wrote for “Friends” from 1994 to 1999. Her popular episode, “The One Where Everybody Finds Out,” earned her an Emmy nomination for Best ...
Alexa Junge worked in the Star studio. Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters.
Alexa Junge is a television executive producer, consulting producer and script writer. Her career in television began in the mid 1990s and she is best known for her work on shows such as Friends, Veronica's Closet and United States of Tara.
