INDUSTRY 101 EVENT SERIES
Outline 101:
Outlining Your Pilot
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | 5-6:30 PM PT | Online
If you’re struggling with your story, you may want to go back to your outline. Join us for Outline 101, which will take a deep look into the prewriting process and ways to get started, so that writing your first draft is (slightly) less painful.
This informational conversation will discuss and clarify what screenwriters are advised to try when planning their first pilot, and why so many established screenwriters use outlines.
PANELIST
Alicia Carroll
Screenwriter, Writing Pad Instructor
Alicia Carroll is a screenwriter and playwright. She most recently wrote on the Pitch Perfect spinoff Bumper In Berlin on Peacock starring Adam Devine & Jameela Jamil, showrun by Megan Amram and Executive Produced and co-created by Elizabeth Banks. Before that, Alicia was the Story Editor for the Hitchcockian thriller The Watchful Eye for Freeform and was staffed on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist for NBC. Previously, Alicia wrote for Crooked Media’s comedic live show and podcast, Lovett Or Leave It, as well as the Facebook Watch series, Text Stories, produced by New Form. Alicia has been a speaker at TEDxBeaconStreet in Boston, was a 2019 Film Independent: Project Involve Fellow, a Women In Film: Insight Fellow, and one of IAMA Theatre's 2020 Under 30 Playwrights Lab participants. Alicia is a graduate of Emerson College who got her start in news before moving over to screenwriting.
MODERATOR
Marilyn Friedman
Writer, Writing Pad Co-Founder
Marilyn is a freelance journalist and the Co-Founder of Writing Pad, an award-winning creative writing school whose instructors are writers from the top TV shows and publications and has existed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Online since 2005. Her essays, stories, and op-ed’s have been published in the New York Times, Salon.com, Narratively, The Frisky, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is currently working on a pilot and a memoir about her experiences as a swing dancer. She has taught writing for fifteen years, including classes at Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, The Writing Salon, and the Southern California Writers Conference. Her poetry has been published in Pearl, Squaw Valley Review, California Quarterly, Karamu, and The Great American Poetry Show and has written articles on love and dating for Match.com. Marilyn has a BA in English and Writing from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a Master’s Degree from Boston University.
