The participants for the Nickelodeon Writing Program 2024 (NWP) have been announced, ushering in a trio of rising talents from diverse communities with unique creative perspectives. This year’s select few are Paynudeh Allen, Sean Bloomstine and Tanvi Kumar.
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Established in 2000, the Writing Program offers aspiring television writers with unique voices from underrepresented communities the opportunity to hone their skills and launch their careers as writers on Nickelodeon’s scripted live-action and animated television productions. As an incubator program, the Writing Programs identifies, inspires and mentors new creators to invigorate the Nickelodeon talent pipeline.
Within the Writing Program, all participants have the opportunity to network with executives and show creators, gain firsthand experience writing scripts, pitch story ideas, attend workshops, seminars and classes, and experience working writers’ rooms. These writers will develop their skills with hands-on work during the yearlong program.
During the program, the writers will be paired with executive mentors to offer guidance, including: Brittany Cope (VP, Live-Action Development), Nathan Schram (VP, Animation Development) and Leslie Wishnevski (Manager, Animation Development).
The NWP is building off of another successful year with all of the 2023 cohort working on Nick shows before they finished their time in the Program. The Program had 10 NWP alumni working on Nickelodeon shows at the same time last year, which is a record.
The NWP recently launched a new TV Comedy Writing Fellowship in partnership with Austin Film Festival and Screenwriters’ Conference, sponsoring a winning writer’s attendance at the conference. The NWP also be there in person for their annual Screenwriters’ Happy Hour event on October 26.
Submissions for the 25th year Writing Program open on July 1, 2024. For more information, visit @NickWriting on Twitter and @NickWritingProgram on Instagram and nickwriting.com.
Meet the Writers
Paynudeh Allen
Paynudeh Allen is a Liberian American comedy writer hailing from the great little state of Maryland. Beginning her L.A. career on the hallowed grounds of The Mailroom, she has served as support staff in many writers’ rooms, including the Emmy-nominated Alexa & Katie (Netflix), Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Surfside Girls (Apple TV+). She is a proud graduate of Season 1 of TRIBE, a writers’ program created and led by Insecure executive producer and SuperSpecial founder, Amy Aniobi.
In her writing, Paynudeh enjoys exploring both the delightfully mundane and truly weird lives of Black ladies: from haunting their former bullies, to poorly navigating the apocalypse, to being uncool teen girls. If you insist, she will consider writing about men as well.
Sean Bloomstine
Sean Bloomstine is an LGBTQ+ writer and comedian from Erie, Pennsylvania. He attended Boston College, where he received a degree in Economics while pursuing his passion for comedy through improv and sketch. Upon graduating, he was accepted into the NBCUniversal Page Program and has since worked in various positions throughout the industry, most recently as showrunner’s assistant to Aseem Batra.
In 2021, Sean released a web series which he wrote, directed and starred in called Ricky Makes a Web Series! that received a coveted shoutout in his mom’s Christmas card that year. He also regularly performs stand-up and was named “Best of the Fest” at the 2022 Burbank Comedy Festival. He currently produces and hosts his own stand-up show, Comedy Cookies, featuring up-and-coming comedians — where everyone who attends receives a fresh-baked cookie from his family’s recipe book.
Tanvi Kumar
Tanvi Kumar is a writer, comedian and pop culture enthusiast. Born in New Delhi, India and raised in small-town Wisconsin, she has an appreciation for all of life’s funny contradictions. As the oldest daughter in an immigrant family, Tanvi felt compelled to follow a conventional career path, but kept falling off the corporate ladder and back into the world of storytelling.
Tanvi has performed sketch and improv in theaters all across Chicago and was a part of The Second City’s inaugural Victor Wong Fellowship for Asian American comedians. Tanvi is passionate about witty and vulnerable storytelling and loves to write about complicated people trying to find their place in the world.
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Original source: Animation Magazine.
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