Breaking into TV Writing with Lena Waithe (MASTER OF NONE) & Tom Fontana (OZ)

Tom Fontana has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life On The Street, Oz, The Philanthropist, Copper and Netflix’s Borgia. He has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers Guild Awards, Four Television Critics Association Awards, the CableACE Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Special Edgar and the first prize at the Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva. Fontana serves on the boards of Stockings with Care, the WGAE Foundation, the New York City Police Museum, DEAL, The Creative Coalition, The Acting Company, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Center for Creative Voices in Media.