Ellie Guzman on getting into Dreamworks and being the only assistant in the room

Ellie Guzman was a Script Coordinator at Dreamworks when her bosses promoted her to Staff Writer. But first she started as a Production Assistant, moved up to Production Coordinator, and took a bunch of Dreamworks screenwriting classes. We'll talk about how she became a Script Coordinator, the landscape for animation writers, and her strategy to avoid getting pigeonholed. I'm Priscilla Nguyen, a pre-WGA writer, and you're listening to NEW SCREENWRITERS ON BREAKING IN.Ellie Guzman is a Salvadoran-American screenwriter. She graduated from USC in 2015 with a degree in Human Biology and worked in the ER before quitting to PA on an animated show. In 2019, she became Script Coordinator on another animated series called ARCHIBALD'S NEXT BIG THING IS HERE!, where she wrote her first freelance episodes. In 2020, she became Script Coordinator on KUNG FU PANDA: THE DRAGON KNIGHT, and in 2021, she became a Staff Writer on the same show.