Can you be a writers' assistant for a Los Angeles based show if you live in New York?

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The job of a writer’s assistant is to take copious notes and organize them for the writers. They also sit at the keyboard, typing the script during re-writes, as writers pitch lines.

For emerging screenwriters, these are highly coveted jobs because you get to learn the trade from actual, working screenwriters. You get to witness in real time how they “break” stories. A writer’s assistant will learn more in a week about screenwriting than they would in film school — and they’re getting paid for it!

If the show is Zoom based, as most were during the pandemic, then technically, yes, that part of the job could be performed from anywhere in the world.

However, there are other aspects to the job.