HOLIDAY SALE GOES ON SALE
TAKE 20% off of the price of any item you want!!!

Move Fast. Our Holiday Sale of Extraordinary Experiences is packed with amazing encounters and is 20% off. Now it is incredibly easy to make your dreams come true. Just locate your desired experience on the list of invaluable items for sale below and BUY IT! (One simple swipe of that little card in your wallet could change your life’s course.) Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Shavelson-Webb Library and other Foundation programs, including the Veterans Writing Project and High School Workshop Program.
Make this the best holiday season of your entire life.
Call or email Sandy at (323) 782-4691 or sallyn@wga.org
to grab your dream!!
Move quickly because these discounted personal adventures will GO FAST.

TAKE 20% off of the price of any item below!!! BUY NOW

19. TWO HOUSE SEATS to WICKED in NEW YORK. Wicked is the Tony Award winning musical with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. HOUSE seats are SPECIAL SEATS; the BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE; IMPOSSIBLE TO GET UNLESS YOU ARE CONNECTED. Well, poof, consider yourself connected!!! (just a little aside, $500 is a  STEAL for house seats in NEW YORK!!!)
Two HOUSE SEATS to WICKED - $500

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1. A Star Trek Fan? Meet and have lunch with Nicholas Meyer, writer, producer, director, novelist extraordinaire. The world knows him for Star Trek, (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home and The Undiscovered Country) and you will soon find out the meaning of the words "smart" and "erudite." Join him for lunch... just you and Nick, and let the conversation and anecdotes flow like fine wine. Trekkies Take Note. This is a day you'll never forget.
LUNCH with NICHOLAS MEYER - $1,500

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3. No successful, powerful role models in your life? Take a lunch with Diane English, creator, writer and executive producer of that all-time-great-show, Murphy Brown (1988-1998) and the film, The Women. Yes, the real Diane English will take you to lunch and spend one and a half hours chatting with you about whatever you want. This will be the best advice you've ever heard.
DIANE ENGLISH will take you to LUNCH - $1,500

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5. Robin Swicord will give you a one-on-one MASTER CLASS (over lunch) about laying out a story. Chance of a career... this is an actual one-on-one CLASS from the super smart and very analytical Robin Swicord of Little Women, Matilda, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Jane Austen Book Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Strengthen your skills as a storyteller, and watch your writing change for the better!
ONE ON ONE MASTER CLASS with ROBIN SWICORD - $2,000

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6. What really happens in a writers' room? Shonda Rhimes will open the secret door, just for you, for lunch in the actual writer's room with the actual writing staff of her esteemed, long running show, Grey's Anatomy. Read this again, but believe it. Do not let this pass you by... you will be IN THE DOOR with the PLAYERS!!!!!
LUNCH in the WRITERS' ROOM of GREY'S ANATOMY - $2,500

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8. Having trouble pitching? Pam Falk and Mike Ellis (The Wedding Planner) have sold pitches to Dreamworks, Universal, Sony, New Line, Revolution, ABC and The CW. In 2010 they sold a pitch to Warner Brothers with Sandra Bullock to star. Their latest, Bad in Bed, was snapped up this September by Skydance Productions (True Grit, Mission Impossible) in a preemptive bid. Mike has been teaching screenwriting at AFI for the past 13 years. They are happy to share their experience and expertise with you. They will hear your pitch, give you notes, and help build a clear, commercial, studio-ready presentation. This will change your life forever. Give yourself the tools to fly. You can't afford to pass this up.
PAM FALK and MIKE ELLIS will HONE YOUR PITCH - $2,000

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9. Wanna play with the big boys? Comedy writer JAY KOGEN (The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond, George Lopez, Frasier, Malcolm in the Middle) invites you to a poker game at his home with a group of mildly bitter writers and performers. Warning, there's a $200 buy-in and you must bring pretzels, but, other than that, life in the fast lane can be yours.
POKER at JAY KOGEN's HOUSE - $2,000

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10. A HIGH CALIBER evening of GUNS, BOOZE AND SHOP TALK! JON HOEBER (writer of the RED and BATTLESHIP franchises) will take you shooting at the Los Angeles Gun Club where you will put to use several of the modern standards in action film hand weaponry. Then it's drinks and shoptalk with the smell of gunpowder still clinging. Guaranteed to make you a better writer and shot. (Beginners encouraged... no background, equipment or training required; you must be 21; no felony convictions; and mentally stable, for all practical purposes.)
GUNS, BOOZE and SHOP TALK with JON HOEBER - $1,500

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11. In Desperate Need of CAREER ADVICE? Go to the top!!! MELISSA ROSENBERG (the TWILIGHT saga maven, Dexter) will give you her personal career advice... accompanied by multiple glasses of champagne. Learn how to do it from one of the hottest writers in town.
CHAMPAGNE and CAREER ADVICE from MELISSA ROSENBERG - $1,500

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12. BILLY RAY (Shattered Glass, Suspect Zero, Flightplan, Breach, State of Play) writes screenplays and they are made into films. Want to talk to him, maybe mine his secrets and perhaps put a rocket under your career? He is inviting you to lunch. Can you afford to say NO? Go for it.
BILLY RAY will TAKE YOU to LUNCH - $1,500

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15. DAVID SHORE (yes, the actual DAVID SHORE who created HOUSE) will treat you to drinks and conversation. Feel like it's just you and your laptop against the world... this is your chance to get out, actually meet and have drinks with one of the biggest names in the industry. Questions about how to break into the business; legal queries; medical misconceptions? He's the go-to guy. You have to embrace this access, meet him one-on-one, 'cause it is only happening here and NOW.
DAVID SHORE invites you to cocktails and conversation - $2,000

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17. IS GOLF YOUR GAME? Join a hot screenwriting team for a ROUND OF GOLF.  Tee off with MICHAEL BRANDT AND DEREK HAAS (2 Fast 2 Furious, 3:10 to Yuma, Wanted) at the ultra private Brentwood Country Club.  Enjoy the view and the very special company.  Hey, it doesn’t get any better than this! Fore!!!!
GOLF with MICHAEL BRANDT and DEREK HAAS at Brentwood Country Club - $1,500

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18. Want to make perfect pastry crusts?  Watching a YouTube video isn't as useful as a hands-on lesson in pastry-making.  ROBIN SWICORD (Little Women, Matilda, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Jane Austen Book Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)  will teach you to make three kinds of pastry crust for tarts and pies.   Spend an afternoon in Robin's kitchen, learning how to bake a pear tartin, a double-crusted apple pie, and a fruit tart or rustic galette.  You'll never be at a loss for a useful way to procrastinate again.
LEARN TO MAKE PERFECT PASTRY CRUSTS from ROBIN SWICORD - $1,500

 

Rules of the Game:
All items must be arranged according to the schedule of the donor. Meetings are for at least ½ hour; screenplay reads with notes will consist of a first read, a set of notes, your response, and a final response from the screenwriter.

Call or email Sandy at (323) 782-4691 or sallyn@wga.org to discuss or buy all items.
Move quickly because these personal adventures always go fast. BUY NOW

All proceeds benefit the Writers Guild Foundation & Shavelson-Webb Library in its mission to promote the vital importance of writers and writing in the world.