SCREENWRITER SPOTLIGHT #10: Joe Webb
Joe Webb lives and writes in West Hollywood, CA. He has developed television pilots for Fox, Sony and Fremantle Media, and currently works on the staff of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. He is represented by WME and Primary Wave Entertainment.
Lee: Tell me your origin story—who were you before you became a screenwriter?
Joe: In the fall of 2008, I was a third-year doctoral student, and I was about to spend two years of my life writing a 400-page dissertation on American Literature that like twelve people in the world were going to eventually read. And there’s nobility in doing that kind of work—but at the same time, I was also writing a pop-culture college advice blog that was getting a couple thousand hits a day, and ...
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