Evan Iwata is a TV drama writer who recently sold his original high-concept crime procedural ON THE CLOCK to ABC with Lionsgate Television and Alexi Hawley’s Perfectman Pictures. He was previously a staff writer on the HBO Max sci-fi thriller SUBJECT TO CHANGE from J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot, and has also developed a YA action-adventure series for DreamWorks Animation. He began his career in the writers room, working in support staff roles on series including Starz's OUTLANDER, CBS's CSI:CYBER and PURE GENIUS, and ABC's THE FIX and EMERGENCE. An alum of the Warner Bros. TV Writers’ Workshop and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Today we are getting into how Evan went from being rejected from USC film school to a WGA writer selling his own show, what it was like working directly with JJ Abrams ona series for HBO and the three typical expectations most writers have that are completely incorrect.
BREAKDOWN:
13:46 – Evan’s work on a potential Dreamworks show 18:26 – Pitch vs. pilot vs. series bible 23:18 – How to get paid before you start writing the pilot 28:41 – From Oshkosh to USC / underGRAD 31:41 – Megan Niquette 33:21 – Namrata 34:11 – Evan McGahey, Monisha Dadlani, Ethan Welling 41:41 – Signing with reps 42:24 – Writers’ Assistant Program, Conrad Sun 46:41 – Knowing when to add an agent to the team 46:41 – Kat Reilly 50:41 – Warner Bros. TV Writer Workshop + Covid 51:26 – Jennifer Yale 52:01 – Getting in the writers room on JJ Abrams show 59:21 – Starting as support staff (CSI: Cyber, Outlander) 1:06:11 – Wrong expectations as writers 1:17:41 – Getting a WGA card 1:18:11 – Adapting a true story from an article 1:24:36 – TIME CAPSULE
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