Author: Sabrina Nouadir

Sabrina is a writer and producer who considers herself a cultural mutt, growing up with a French Canadian father, Algerian mother, and living in Spain, Canada, Australia, and the US. A pop-culture aficionado, she graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and has been working in the Film and Television industry ever since. Sabrina is a fan of coming of age stories, superheroes, and Disney princesses (especially the ones who do more than get a prince by the end of the movie). She can recite any Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode by heart, and she dares you to test her. Sabrina currently resides in Los Angeles, CA working for the writers of The CW’s iZombie from the creators of Veronica Mars.

My first job in a writers’ room was as an intern for the creator of a basic cable show back in 2013. I was still in college, and eager to spend half my days learning first-hand about breaking a story, developing characters, and dealing with networks. The creator of the show became somewhat of a mentor figure, quickly promoting me and taking me under his wing as the Luke to his Yoda. Though I was happy to accept the mentorship, a lot of the things he told me I’d already learned while at USC. It’s the classic stuff that, although…

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How I went from being the biggest Veronica Mars fan to working for the creators of the show – and how to deal when you’re working for people you admire. There’s a scene in a 2005 episode of Veronica Mars where the titular character uses her infamous wit to defend a nerdy classmate from a bully’s attack. Now, I know we’ve all seen this a million times: The hero is supposed to help the helpless. But then, and that’s the part that stuck with me, Veronica turns to the pigtailed high school weirdo and says: “You want people to leave…

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