'S.W.A.T.' writer A.C. Allen outlines how to create a more diverse writers room, including establishing HBCU internships
In my first writers room, I got lucky. The showrunners, a Jewish and Muslim duo, staffed three women, including me and another Black female. In my second writers room, it was painfully obvious that the only reason the white male showrunner staffed me was to serve as the show's token Black writer.
Several years later, more showrunners openly acknowledge that an all-white, all-male writers room is wrong, creatively and morally. How can we ask viewers to believe in the multicultural America onscreen if we can't achieve that goal in a writers room of 10 people? Showrunners can do these five things right now to increase representation:Instruct support staff to request and read scripts from Black writers.
A.C. Allen is developing a series about the 1958 stabbing that nearly ended Martin Luther King Jr.'s life.
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