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The Blackhouse Foundation & Starz #Takethelead Set Five For New Producers’ Fellowship


The Blackhouse Foundation & Starz #Takethelead have partnered on a new fellowship for episodic producers, setting their first cohort.

Designed to support female-identifying, mid-career producers working in episodic, the fellowship’s participants were selected from The Blackhouse Foundation’s alumni pipeline to convene this weekend during a three-day intensive in Los Angeles. “The goal of the three-day intensive is to deliver personalized feedback and noteworthy direction, combined with the expertise of our facilitator, to prepare these candidates to enter an episodic room as non-writing or writing producers in the near future.” Added Starz’s President of Original Programming, Kathryn Busby, “We are excited to partner with The Blackhouse Foundation to help cultivate new talent and drive an increase in Black female producers, which is essential to our business as a network focused on women and underrepresented audiences.

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