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Kindsey L. Young is known for We Stay Looking (2020), A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019) and Insecure (2016).
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Nov 13, 2020 · We were curious about what a working TV writer actually, y’know, *does* with an original pilot spec script once they’ve written it. To find out, we asked Kindsey L. Young, a writer on HBO’s Insecure and creator of Harrietta, hopefully coming soon to a TV screen near you. ***
- Learning on The Job
- You Know What That is? Growth
- Directors Get Their Shot
- The Next Episode
In the beginning, Insecure was led largely by first-timers: Rae, a first-time TV show creator; Prentice Penny, a first-time showrunner; Melina Matsoukas, directing her first episode of narrative TV; Amy Aniobi, a first-time TV producer. “It was scary, and obviously you have moments of imposter syndrome,” says Aniobi. “But at the end of the day, how...
Getting new faces in the door was the first step. The next stage would be to build a culture of growth (as Natasha Rothwell’s character Kelli expressed in a widely-sharedGIF). Syreeta Singleton, who started as Penny’s assistant and a writer’s room PA, says that people were consistently teaching their jobs to those one level down, “because the thoug...
Rae also made it a priority to hire directors at varying career stages, giving them opportunities to expand the industry’s narrow conception of them. One of those was Kevin Bray, a veteran director who had spent the early 2010s working on middlebrow dramas like Franklin & Bash and White Collar. “She took a chance on me because I was a kind of dyed-...
In the past, Black creatives in Hollywood have expressed frustration about finding steady work even after their big breaks, largely because they weren’t considered for non-Black shows, and the number of Black shows was so limited. But now, as Insecure wraps up, it’s hard to find an alumni of the show that hasn’t already dived into another significa...
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Kindsey Young - Writers' Assistant - HBO | LinkedIn. Writer. Inglewood, California, United States. 84 followers 74 connections. View mutual connections with Kindsey. Welcome back. About. An...
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Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.
