'This is my chance to give back in a very small way — in a way I would have found very helpful when I was starting out.'
Savitt relocated to Denver this past spring, looking for a new"opportunity to live in a cool city with a thriving creative scene."
Topics will include branding, developing a unique comedic voice and navigating the business side of writing. The program's main goal is to provide resources to up-and-coming scribes who may not have any other access to them, in a creative atmosphere that is supportive, safe and, above all, open to everyone.
"This has taken a lot of different shapes," says Savitt,"but really, my mentorship, or call it what you will, started in Washington, D.C., with a similar purpose. Even though maybe that's a little larger of a market, [D.C.] still has that same connotation of: It's not New York, it's not L.A. — you don't necessarily have the same career opportunities.
"With the Writers' Room, I really make it intentionally broad," Savitt says,"because when you talk about comedy and writing, I think maybe the first thing people gravitate toward is...standup. But what I've learned is there are so many different formats and opportunities, whether it's political writing like when I was in D.C., or one-liners or screenplays or playwriting or books. It could go so many different ways.
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