One-On-One with Writer, Author and Actress Jorjeana Marie
April 21, 2021
|| Event Date: Saturday, May 8, 2021 ||
|| Speaker: Jorjeana Marie ||
|| Start time: 1:00 pm PDT ||
This One-On-One event will discuss a variety of topics, including: the Speaker’s story, writing characters, creating a compelling premise and/or story, finding your voice, script development, writer’s vision, past projects, among many other topics. See more information below.
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More information:
Jorjeana Marie is a television writer on the forthcoming Disney show Mickey Mouse FunHouse, a nationally touring comedian opening for Richard Lewis, Kathleen Madigan and Louis Anderson and the author of Improv for Writers (Penguin Random House/Ten Speed Press 2019). She is an award-winning voice actress you may have heard on Nickelodeon or Disney and has narrated over 400 audiobooks. She has earned a prestigious Audie, more than a dozen Earphones awards and been named one of the best YA voices for several consecutive years. Publishers Weekly calls her “Pitch Perfect”. Paste Magazine named her one of their favorite narrators and Audiofile Magazine calls her characters “Hilarious!” She is the voice of the New Nancy Drew Diaries and AudioFile says “Jorjeana Marie captures the essence of what makes Nancy Drew such a timeless fictional icon”. As an actress, Jorjeana starred in the pilot “Listen to Grandpa, Andy Ling” with Randall Parks and Elliott Gould and can be seen or heard regularly in dozens of national commercials.
Her desire to create work for herself led to becoming an award-winning playwright, creating and performing three one-woman shows in NY and LA: “Ally, MaryJane & Me”, “NY, I Love” and “JoJo and Friends” – a sold-out solo sketch show with animation, puppets and stand-up. With an endorsement from Daisy Rock Guitars, Jorjeana performs ‘micro-songs’ in her act. She has also written on television shows for Dreamworks, Cartoon Network and Netflix. She writes about comedy for Writer’s Digest Magazine and is included in Writer’s Digest Best Of.
While she shares her passion for improv by teaching and speaking at Disney, Google, CBS/Scriptwriter’s Network and Cartoon Network Studios, she is often involved in many charitable organizations as a host and comedienne including: Gilda’s Club, Comedy Cures, Young Storytellers and The Big Big Show.
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Meeting Timeframe: 1:00 pm PDT to approximately 3:00 pm PDT
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