{"id":7481,"date":"2016-05-03T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:20:04","slug":"glen-mazzara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/03\/glen-mazzara\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Mazzara"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Fast Company’s\u00a0CO.CREATE<\/a>\u00a0(with shout-out to Laura Terry<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

“Damien” Creator Glen Mazzara On The Fight To Bring True Diversity To TV<\/h1>\n

For 14 years, veteran producer Glen Mazzara has been working to help solve TV\u2019s diversity problem. Here are some of his solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n

by\u00a0SUSAN KARLIN<\/a><\/p>\n

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Onscreen, TV producer\u00a0Glen Mazzara<\/a>\u00a0shines a light on our darker natures. Offscreen, he\u2019s trying to improve them.<\/p>\n

Mazzara, creator of A&E\u2019s\u00a0Damien<\/a>, inspired by the 1976 horror film\u00a0The Omen, and former showrunner of\u00a0The Walking Dead, is among the leading advocates to increase diversity among TV writing staffs, crews, and casts.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Mazzara began speaking to minority and young writers on how to break into the system. Since 2012, he has co-chaired the Writers Guild of America, West’s Diversity Advisory Group with\u00a0Scandal\u00a0and\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u00a0creator Shonda Rhimes. Their mission:\u00a0to educate<\/a>\u00a0the WGA, studios, networks, agencies, and showrunners about diversity problems and develop methods to fix them.<\/p>\n

Mazzara’s efforts have become especially pertinent, when accusations of Hollywood racism, sexism, and age discrimination have crescendoed, from the #OscarsSoWhite campaign decrying the absence of African American actor nominees, to disclosures of gender pay disparity, to “whitewashing” roles by casting white actors to play non-white characters. The\u00a02016 WGAW Hollywood Writers Report<\/a>revealed a mixture of glacial progress, stagnation and reversals in women, minority, and older writer employment and earnings.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at CO.CREATE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Fast Company’s\u00a0CO.CREATE\u00a0(with shout-out to Laura Terry) “Damien” Creator Glen Mazzara On The Fight To Bring True Diversity To TV For 14 years, veteran producer Glen Mazzara has been working to help solve TV\u2019s diversity problem. Here are some of his solutions. by\u00a0SUSAN KARLIN Onscreen, TV producer\u00a0Glen Mazzara\u00a0shines a light on our darker natures. Offscreen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}