Unions

An Open Letter from Writers on the September 2019 WGA Election

Signatories are listed below. Add your name!

Signatories are listed below and updated regularly. Add your name !

Jason Fuchs: Why I am running for the WGA board

I have been a proud WGA member for virtually the entirety of my adult life working in both film and television. Until April 13th, I had literary representation for an even longer period, spending four years with a boutique agency, followed by…

Sarah Treem: Why I am running for the WGA board

I’ve been a WGA member for over 12 years. I’ve been nominated for three WGA awards, won two. I marched in the picket lines last strike. I believe strongly in the importance of this guild. I’ve brought multiple writers into this union during my…

Marc Guggenheim: Why I am running for the WGA board

For the past nineteen years, I have been a proud member of the Writers Guild of America alongside my wife and brothers. My youngest daughter was literally raised on the picket line as my wife and I pushed her in her stroller at only three…

Nick Kazan: Why I am running for the WGA board

I’ve been in the WGA for more than 40 years, working in both film and TV. If elected, I’ll bring experience, institutional memory, and an understanding of our history as a union — where and how we’ve succeeded and where we’ve fallen short.

Ashley Miller: Why I am running for the WGA board

In my time in the WGA, I have been a working television writer and a working feature writer. My experience in both worlds gives me insight across the spectrum of membership concerns. With your support, I will bring the benefit of a broad point…

Courtney Kemp: Why I am running for the WGA board

I want a strong, united Writers Guild for the fight ahead.

When I joined this Guild in 2004, I was the luckiest staff writer in the world. The Bernie Mac Show hired me off a spec episode and a pitch meeting, and I was…

Rasheed Newson: Why I am running for the WGA board

I have been a WGA member for 11 years. I’ve worked in television drama with my writing partner, T.J. Brady, every step of the way from staff writer to co-executive producer. I am black, I am gay, I am married, and I am a father of two kids.

Why I’m running to be the next president of WGA West

The first obligation of our Guild is to safeguard the interests of its most at risk members — to ensure that the sacrifices leadership asks us to take do not disadvantage the vulnerable or favor, however inadvertently, our more privileged…