An Open Letter from Writers on the September 2019 WGA Election
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As members of the Writers Guild of America, we firmly believe that many agency practices are in need of major reform. We are grateful to the present leadership for bringing these matters to the fore.
And we believe this present situation is best resolved in a negotiating room and not in a courtroom.
Furthermore, we are facing a critical negotiation with the AMPTP, a fight that has huge financial consequences for our members especially in the area of residuals, and we believe this battle is best fought by a united, forward-thinking guild that is not entrenched in lawsuits.
Our union is strong enough to endure honest differences of opinion voiced by writers who are loyal to the guild and its mission, who are driven by their concern for our most vulnerable members, but who believe there is a different way to achieve our shared goals.
We believe
Phyllis Nagy, for President
and Nick Jones, Jr. for Secretary-Treasurer
are the best and strongest voices to lead our guild into its next chapter.
We are grateful to them for being willing to serve, and we are proud to endorse them.
Signed,
Andrea Abbate
Marc Abrams
Tammy Ader
Robert Adetuyi
Ali Adler
Jesse Alexander
Mando Alvarado
Jennifer Ames
Hossein Amini
Jace Anderson
Kristina Lauren Anderson
Josh Appelbaum
David Appelbaum
Isaac Aptaker
Michelle Ashford
Nate Atkins
Shalom Auslander
Nicole Avenia
Michael Bacall
Neal Baer
Steve Baigelman
Byron Balasco
Rene Balcer
Laura Bans
Andrew Barrer
Kenya Barris
Peter Barsocchini
Samuel Baum
Travis Beacham
Simon Beaufoy
Bridget Bedard
Elisa Bell
Warren Bell
Leah Benavides
Jessica Bendinger
David Benioff
David Berenbaum
Elizabeth Berger
Greg Berlanti
Mick Betancourt
Ann Biderman
Peter Biegen
Ken Biller
Stuart Blumberg
Mark Boal
Andy Bobrow
Yvette Bowser
Pam Brady
T.J. Brady
Chris Brancato
Josh Brand
David Branson Smith
Aalia Brown
Julia Brownell
David Broyles
William Broyles, Jr.
Scott Buck
Jeff Buhai
Jeffrey Buhler
Tara Butters
Lila Byock
Debora Cahn
Sara Caldwell
Deborah Calla
Sheila Callaghan
Brandon Camp
Dave Caplan
Jonathan Caren
Morris Carnovsky
Glenn Caron
Lea Carpenter
Alex Cary
Brendan Casey
Sam Catlin
Michael Chabon
Ilene Chaiken
Damien Chazelle
Etan Cohen
Jonathan Collier
Ryan Condal
Sarah Conradt
Adam Cooper
Kinan Copen
Mario Correa
Mark Cullen
Robb Cullen
Alex Cunningham
Carlton Cuse
Gary Dauberman
Laura Dave
J.P. Davis
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Elizabeth Devine
Nevin Densham
Brad Desch
David Diamond
Evan Dickson
Katherine Dieckmann
David Digilio
Rob Doherty
Bathsheba Doran
Erin Donovan
Karey Dornetto
Timothy Dowling
Craig Doyle
Ethan Drogin
James A. Duff
Ava DuVernay
Rene Echevarria
Becky Hartman Edwards
Rick Eid
Lee Eisenberg
Kirk Ellis
Taylor Elmore
Jonathan Entwistle
Tom Epperson
Anya Epstein
Zack Estrin
Ben Falcone
Barry Fanaro
Michele Fazekas
Jon Feldman
Matt Fennell
Gabe Ferrari
David Field
Joel Fields
Liz Flahive
Mike Flanagan
Susanna Fogel
Dan Fogelman
Naomi Foner
David Foster
Scott Frank
Kelly Fremon Craig
Richard Friedenberg
Hannah Friedman
Jason Fuchs
Dan Futterman
Dan Fybel
Steve Gaghan
Joe Gangemi
Rodrigo Garcia
John Gatins
Alex Gibney
Keith Giglio
Gail Gilchriest
Emer Gillespie
Tyler Gillett
Michael Gilvary
Jonathan Glatzer
John Glenn
Will Gluck
Stephen Godchaux
Akiva Goldsman
David H. Goodman
Sara Goodman
Andy Gordon
Dan Gordon
Jill Gordon
Andrew Gottlieb
Al Gough
David Goyer
Michael Grace
Gary Graham
Jim Danger Gray
Raf Green
Michael Green
Randall Green
Laura Greene
James Greer
Alex Gregory
John Griffin
Ted Griffin
Andrew Guest
Marc Guggenheim
Derek Haas
Jason Hall
John Lee Hancock
Liz Hannah
Dean Hargrove
Stephen Harrigan
Jordan Harrison
James V. Hart
Allan Heinberg
Eileen Heisler
Todd Helbing
Bruce Helford
DeAnn Heline
Tim Herlihy
Jonathan Herman
Marshal Herskovitz
Justin Hillian
Jonathan Hirschbein
Tyler Hisel
John Hlavin
Cheo Hodari Coker
Chad Hodge
Samm Hodges
Courtney Hoffman
David Hollander
Elyse Hollander
Matt Holloway
Adam Horowitz
Jeff Howard
George Huang
Soo Hugh
Ted Humphrey
Mitch Hurwitz
Peter Huyck
David Henry Hwang
Kevin Hynes
Allison Intrieri
David Iserson
David Israel
Ryan Jaffe
Joanna Johnson
Rian Johnson
Phil Johnson
Amanda Johnson-Zetterstrom
Becky Johnston
Deborah Jones
Eileen Jones
Jason Jones
Nick Jones, Jr.
Jeff Judah
Alexa Junge
Laeta Kalogridis
Dave Kalstein
Kourtney Kang
Tom Kapinos
Sid Karger
Lawrence Kasdan
Evan Katz
Marta Kaufman
Robert Kamen
Emily Kapnek
Stephen Kay
Nick Kazan
Patrick Keefe
David E. Kelley
Brendan Kelly
Courtney Kemp
Jennifer Kent
Carla Kettner
Kyle Killen
Jon Kinnally
Eric Kirsten
Edward Kitsis
Amitabh Klemm
Barbie Kligman
Anya Kochoff Romano
Dan Kopelman
Ben Koppel
Stacy Kramer
Eric Kripke
Roger Kumble
Alex Kurtzman
Kenny Kyle
Shia Labeouf
Mark Lafferty
Elizabeth Laime
Peter Landesman
Christopher Landon
Andrew Lanham
Adam Lash
Amanda Lasher
Bill Lawrence
Jeffrey M. Lee
Zander Lehman
Warren Hsu Leonard
Nick LeRose
Rob Letterman
Steven Levenson
David Levien
Richard Levine
Steve Levitan
Kenneth Lin
Amy Lippman
Kari Lizer
Lisa Long
Rob Long
Matt Lopez
Phil Lord
Jeff Lowell
David Lowery
Silka Luisa
Jenny Lumet
Ben Lustig
David Magee
Erin Maher
Jennifer Maisel
Ted Malawer
Tracey Malone
Art Marcum
Justin Marks
Donald Martin
Marissa Matteo
David Matthews
Gregg McBride
Melissa McCarthy
Cindy McCreery
Ian McCulloch
Juliet McDaniel
Michelle McGrath
David McMillan
John McNamara
Carly Mensch
Wendy Mericle
Alex Metcalf
Enzo Mileti
Chris Miller
Brian Miller
Ashley Edward Miller
Rina Mimoun
Andrew Mogel
Graham Moore
Kirk Moore
Jack Moore
Hud Morgan
Chris Mundy
Robert Munic
Marisha Murkerjee
Ryan Murphy
Kevin Murphy
Aireka Muse
Ally Musika
Marsha Myers
Janine Nabors
Margaret Nagle
Andre Nemec
Sally Nemeth
Andrea Newman
Patrick Ness
Rasheed Newson
Matt Nix
Jesse Nixon-Lopez
Ken Nolan
George Nolfi
Courtney Norris
Sohrab Noshirvani
T.S. Nowlin
Ken Nunn
Tim O’Donnell
Nancy Oliver
John Orloff
Jack Orman
Nicholas Osborne
Tom Pabst
Daniel Paige
Ol Parker
Kamran Pasha
Robert Patino
Jim Patterson
Jarrad Paul
Sherman Payne
Rob Pearlstein
Quinton Peeples
Sascha Penn
Jonathan Penner
Scott Pennington
Charlie Peters
Clyde Phillips
Jeff Pinkner
Nic Pizzolatto
John Pollono
Tracy Poust
Jeff Rake
Rand Ravich
Elwood Reid
Max Reid
Kay Reindl
Scott Reynolds
Shonda Rhimes
Stephen Rivele
Matthew Roberts
Katie Robbins
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Alvaro Rodriguez
Jacob Roman
John Romano
Kim Rome
Tiffany Romigh
Scott Rosenberg
Todd Rosenberg
Jordan Ross
Matthew Ross
William Rotko
Russell Rothberg
Lisa Rubin
Stacy Rukeyser
Greg Russo
Kenny Ryan
Dre Ryan
Jon Ronson
Rodney Rothman
Gabe Sachs
Joshua Safran
Matthew Sand
Sean Sansiveri
Nick Santora
Michael Sardo
Andrea Savage
Dario Scardapane
Brian Schacter
John Scheinfeld
William Schmidt
Deborah Schoeneman
Jon Schroeder
Michael Seitzman
David Seltzer
Stephanie SenGupta
Alexandra Seros
Lara Shapiro
Jessica Sharzer
Sam Shaw
Scott Shepherd
Tom Sheppard
Taylor Sheridan
John Shiban
Brennan Shroff
Rachel Shukert
Christopher Silber
Scott Silver
Jen Silverman
Josh Singer
Eric Singer
Peter Skavlan
Todd Slavkin
Kiwi Smith
Stephanie Smith
David Branson Smith
Paige Smith Orloff
Jill Soloway
Holly Sorensen
Aaron Sorkin
Malcolm Spellman
Evan Spiliotopoulos
Gary Spinelli
Melissa Stack
Will Staples
Darren Star
Jon Steinberg
James P. Stephens
Dan Sterling
Nick Stoller
Matthew Stone
Danny Strong
Scott Sullivan
Sarah Sutherland
Craig Sweeny
Robin Swicord
Massy Tadjedin
Anthony Tambakis
Chap Taylor
Michael Testone
Dustin Thomason
Caroline Thompson
Jake Thornton
Eric Tipton
Stacy Title
Craig Titley
Donald Todd
Michael Tolkin
Wes Tooke
Albert Torres
Joan Torres
Nikki Toscano
Tony Tost
Jason Tracey
Nichelle Tramble Spellman
Sarah Treem
Jonathan Tropper
Liz Tuccillo
Steven Turner
Cori Uchida
William Vallery
Bryce VanKooten
Matt Venne
Jeff Vintar
Petra Volpe
Flint Wainess
Lena Waithe
Ayelet Waldman
Greg Walker
David Walpert
Harriet Warner
Steve Waverly
Katie Wech
David Weil
Jenny Rachel Weiner
Joseph Weisberg
DB Weiss
David Weissman
Gina Welch
John Wells
Ben Wexler
David C. White
Sharr White
Ed Whitmore
Marianne Wibberley
Cormac Wibberly
Dan Wiedenhaupt
David Wiener
Kelly Wiles
Christopher Wilkinson
Tyger Williams
Vaun Wilmott
Scott Wilson
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Tracey Scott Wilson
Max Winkler
Nick Wootton
Angela Workman
Carly Wray
Lawrence Wright
Craig Wright
Bill Wrubel
J.H. Wyman
Gideon Yago
Graham Yost
Nick Zayas
Stuart Zicherman
Lenore Zion
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