UCLA - Television Sit Com Writing/Producing

Write and produce a situation comedy by camp's end.

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What do Will and Grace, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Girlfriends, and Joey, all have in common? You guessed it! They are all situation comedies - and the UCLA Arts Camp offers the only Sitcom Camp in the country.

Write and Produce a situation comedy under the guiding eye of two seasoned professionals. The two week long camp is patterned after the real life experiences of a creative sitcom team of people who must deliver a situation comedy to the network executives. The writer/producers will spend their time pitching story ideas, writing conferences, casting sessions, staging, and a camera shoot of the project in a television studio. Studio guests and a visit to a sitcom are planned. This highly successful camp is the only one of its kind anywhere and is unique to the UCLA Arts Camp.

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Program Directors

Jordan Moffet, Program Director
This is Jordan's second year with the UCLA Arts Camp Workshops and the Sitcom Workshop is excited to have him back as faculty in our program. Jordan's professional credentials are impeccable, and with Sally Struthers he brings an entirely new dimension to the Sitcom Workshop for 2008.

A graduate of Boston University and Executive Producer/Creator of the highly successful Fox series, Rhythm and Blues, Jordan's career if quite impressive. Writer, producer of Barney Miller and One Day at A Time, The Duck Factory and Harper Valley PTA, He was supervising producer of The Marshall Chronicles, at ABC, Babes for Fox Television and Life and Stuff for CBS. A veteran of television sitcoms both single camera and multiple camera, Jordan Moffet is also a screenwriter having written such movies as Like Mike, and George of the Jungle 2. He is the executive producer and creator of Home and Hearth a new series from Touchstone/ABC, and a Writers Guild of America nominee for writing the highly successful series Barney Miller. A very prolific and busy writer producer, Jordan Moffet will be inspiring the next generation of young comedy writers in our 2007 UCLA Arts Camp/Workshop in Situation Comedy.

Collaborating Director

Sally Struthers, Program Director
The UCLA Arts Camp Workshop is excited to have Sally Struthers as the head of the Sitcom Acting Workshop for 2008. One of the busiest actresses in the business, Sally is a two-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner for her performance in the groundbreaking Norma Lear series All in the Family. No newcomer to situation comedy she starred in the Fox television series 9 to 5 and her own CBS series Gloria. Her recurring roles in the successful sitcom series' include the CBS comedy Still Standing and the CW's highly acclaimed Gilmore Girls.

Sally was heard as the voice of the teenage dinosaur Charlene Sinclair in the ABC prime-time series Dinosaurs. She is also the voice of Pebbles Flintstone on the Pebbles and Bam-Bam cartoon series and the lead female character on the popular Disney cartoon Tailspin. Struthers' television movies include: A Gun in the House, And Your Name is Jonah, The Great Houdinis, Hey, I'm Alive, In The Best Interest of the Children, Deadly Silence, My Husband is Missing, and Intimate Strangers.

But Sally Struthers is not only a television star as she has co-starred in the legendary classics: Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson and The Getaway with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. She was featured in two independent films: Out of the Black and A Month of Sundays with Rod Steiger. What makes Sally unique to our workshop is that her foundation is in the theater and at any time of the year you can see her on stages in Los Angeles and New York. Sally's first two Broadway forays were in Wally's Café with Rita Moreno and Jimmy Coco and in Neil Simon's female version of the Odd Couple with Brenda Vaccaro. For three years she starred as Miss Mamie Lynch on Broadway and on tour in the Tommy Tune production of Grease. In the 20th Anniversary National Tour of Annie, Sally played the coveted role of Miss Hannigan.

Sally was named Best Actress by the Los Angeles Artistic Director Theatre Awards for her role as Louise Seger in the musical, Always, Patsy Cline, a true story based on the relationship between Seger and Cline. She also won the 2003 Ovation Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Agnes Gooch in the Los Angeles production of Mame. She has also starred in regional productions of Hello Dolly, Anything Goes, The Fifth of July, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, and The Full Monty.

A special guest to the Arts camp Workshops in 2006 and 2007, Sally, because of her great joy and devotion to the youthful talent of tomorrow, joins our distinguished faculty in bringing her passion and knowledge about acting to those enrolled in Sitcom Acting for our 2008 Workshops. We are honored to have her join our TFT family.

Location Information

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is the only university in the country where the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.

The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media offers a wide range of courses for undergraduates in the study of three areas of moving images: Critical Studies, including the history, theory and aesthetics of both film and television; Production/Directing, including film, television (studio and field), digital, experimental and animation; and the film and television disciplines, including writing, producing, cinematography, sound recording and editing.

At the graduate level, there are five areas of concentration: Critical Studies, which offers film and television history and theory; aesthetics and popular culture, films from diverse genres and extensive national cinemas; Production/Directing, which trains students in all aspects of directing narrative fiction, documentaries and/or experimental film, emphasizing the aesthetic components; Screenwriting, in which the elements of character, dialogue, story and tone are explored; Animation, in which students are trained to create an individual style and voice; and the Producers Program, in which students learn the business and art of making films and television programs.

At UCLA's Department of Theater, we believe that great theater programs must prepare and train students for careers in all contemporary and emerging entertainment forms -- including live theater, film, television, video, themed entertainment, interactive gaming, and more. Our students live in a world that is interactive, collaborative, and fueled by their passion for our art form -- one that encompasses the many forms of professional practice as well as the theoretical exploration of current and emerging entertainment forms.

Igniting our students' talent and passion to achieve success is our goal. That is why students work with a distinguished faculty composed of professional and creative artists who have excelled in their fields. UCLA Theater has some of the most distinguished faculty and visiting artists in the world, among them Mel Shapiro, Annette Bening, Anthony Hopkins, Larry Moss, Neil Jampolis, Deborah Scott and Jerry Katzman. With this professional training, students are following in the footsteps of such illustrious alumni as Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Robbins, James Dean, Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and many others.

TFT's extraordinary undergraduate and graduate students are drawn from an admissions pool of the finest students from around the world, and enjoy participation in small classes with faculty members who themselves are accomplished artists and industry leaders.

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