About Zak Shaikh
Zak Shaikh has written pilots for Warner Bros and Fox and was a staff writer on the TBS comedy Sullivan & Son. Of Indian and Pakistani descent, he was one of the Honorees of the WGA’s Feature Access Project and scripted the film adaptation of Stephen Fry novel The Liar and BBC journalist John Simpson memoir Strange Places, Questionable People. He briefly woked for Goldman Sachs and is a partner at the media consultancy Attentional.
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About The Author:Zak Shaikh has written pilots for Warner Bros and Fox and was a staff writer on the TBS comedy Sullivan & Son. Of Indian and Pakistani descent, he was one of the Honorees of the WGA’s Feature Access Project and scripted the film adaptation of Stephen Fry novel The Liar and BBC journalist John Simpson memoir Strange Places, Questionable People. He briefly woked for Goldman Sachs and is a partner at the media consultancy Attentional.
A writer has to get out of a movie job contract and off an exotic island. 1,918 words. Part One. Illustration by John Donald Carlucci. The next morning, Jenny Logan came to escort me to Jack’s place. She didn’t say a word about the job offer she’d made me to come from L.A. to this isolated […]
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A writer gets a movie job offer on an exotic island and goes to check it out. 2,134 words. Part Two. Illustration by John Donald Carlucci. It was bang in the middle of another Writers Guild strike, and I woke up with a throbbing headache. I hadn’t drunk more than half a bottle of Trader Joe […]
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