2015: “Be Nice: Reconsidering the Female Sitcom Lead and an Original Pilot” by Anne Sellers ’15

Title: 2015: “Be Nice: Reconsidering the Female Sitcom Lead and an Original Pilot” by Anne Sellers ’15
Description: In 2015, Anne Sellers ’15 writes a screenplay as one half of her thesis, following a critical piece on Mindy Kaling’s show The Mindy Project. Sellers’ screenplay, “Be Nice,” follows a young female intern at an advertising agency as she tries to balance her career ambitions with a determination to remain honest and true to herself. Sellers aims to create a character “who both occupies a realistic subject position and radically subverts it, and can reach viewers in such a way that they begin to understand better and evaluate more thoughtfully their own social experience” (Sellers 17). In her acknowledgement, Sellers thanks the 2015 McGee Professor, award-winning director and screenwriter Ali Selim. She writes, “I will remember what he taught me as long as I consider myself a writer” — again showing the positive impact of visiting creative writers on student interest in the subject (iii).
Creator: Anne Sellers
Date: May 2015