Paradigm has added Zac Simmons to its roster. The industry veteran has joined the agency's TV Lit department and started work Monday. He'll be based in Paradigm's Beverly Hills office. The literary agent comes from the Kaplan Stahler Agency, where he started in 2007 and worked with a long roster of clients including Adam Hoff and Justin Herber, who were among the 2012 Young and Hungry List, as well as Sons of Anarchy's Liz Sagal, writer-director Rod Holcomb (ER) and Alison McDonald (She Got Problems), the latter of which had her short in development at ABC. Simmons, who started
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- 7/23/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bravo for Alison McDonald! We loved and featured both web shorts she created, produced and starred in - She Got Problems and Alison Is Having A Really Bad Day - and even hoped that she'd get the opportunity to further explore and expand on her ideas, via some grander stage/platform like TV, or the big screen. That was in the spring; Skip ahead several months, to news today that the veteran TV writer and story editor (and the sister of actress/singer Audra McDonald who made a hilarious cameo appearance in She Got Problems), has set up musical-comedy pilot for She Got Problems at ABC - home to Shonda Rhimes' family of...
- 12/3/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Alison McDonald's short She Got Problems is heading to TV. ABC has given a script order to the short about a lovable dreamer, with the Nurse Jackie writer/story editor on board to adapt the project for the ABC Studios. The single-camera comedy centers on the ever-changing life of a woman who has a song in her heart but no man in her bed when she meets her match after she begins working for an outspoken mogul. More TV Development News Comedian McDonald, a Fulbright Scholar whose credits also include Accidentally on Purpose and Close to Home, wrote, directed
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- 12/3/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was in April that Sergio posted what looked like a web series titled She Got Problems, created by and starring Alison McDonald (a veteran TV writer and story editor and the sister of actress/singer Audra McDonald who made a hilarious cameo appearance in She Got Problems). Your responses to it were fun, and I think a lot of you dug it. So here's another episode in the series that Alison says are more like "trailers" she' using as pitches for what she hopes will eventually become a full-fledged web or TV series, or a feature film. Here's Alison Is Having A Really Bad Day, which I liked just as I did the first...
- 7/3/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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