Sidney Butler - Sundance Collab

Sidney Butler is a writer and filmmaker from Houston, TX. A graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, her work has been awarded by the Sundance Ignite Fellowship and the Disney Writing Fellowship. Over the last few years in Los Angeles, she has worked in multiple television writers' rooms including: Station 19, A Black Lady Sketch Show and Grown-ish before she was staffed on the Lee Daniels’ drama, Our Kind of People. Her scripted YA podcast, “Academy,” for Wondery and Amazon went #1 on the Apple fiction charts and later went on to win a 2025 AMBIE for Best Scriptwriting. Most recently, she was a writer for the HBO comedy, I Love LA. When she’s not writing, she enjoys binging trashy reality television and trying to find the best Thai food in Los Angeles.

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Self-Paced Course

TV Writing: Core Elements

With: Angela LaManna and 2 more

$375

TV Writing: Core Elements

Beginner to Intermediate

With: Angela LaManna, Cheryl Puente and Sidney Butler

Create an outline for your episodic TV pilot idea in eight weeks with an accomplished TV writer as your guide. In this introductory level self-paced course, you will take this important first step for your original pilot script and learn a set of tools to help you ask the important questions of every scene and character that will get you past "stuck" when writing future episodes.

$375