Tawnya Bhattacharya has worked as a TV writer, feature writer, teacher, and consultant, and has great tips to share on both writing and developing your career!
Tawnya Bhattacharya currently writes for the hit TV series, THE CLIENT LIST on Lifetime, along with her writing partner, Ali Laventhol. The team previously worked on USA’s FAIRLY LEGAL and are repped by ICM Partners and Rain Management Group. Before that, their NURSE JACKIE spec got them into the NBC Writers on the Verge fellowship program. The duo are currently in development with Battleplan on their original pilot.
Tawnya’s solo work includes several optioned features and writing assignments. She was one of a handful selected for the Fox Writers Initiative in 2009, where she optioned her original pilot to Fox.
Bhattacharya taught screenwriting at Writers Boot Camp in 2005 to 2009 where she helped hundreds of writers at various levels create and develop their screenplay projects through courses and script consultations. In 2010, she launched Script Anatomy: a company designed to help screen and television writers reach their personal writing goals and elevate their storytelling through private script consultation, group feature and television writing classes and workshops.
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