WBTV Sets 2022 Television Directors Workshop Participants

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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Television Group has announced the seven directors selected for the 2022 WBTV Directors’ Workshop.The 2022 edition will be the first in-person class of the workship since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.The WBTV Directors’ Workshop launched in 2013 with the aim to discover new and innovative talent, to prepare directors from other creative fields (motion pictures, commercials, music videos, shortform content, etc.) for the transition to television, and to provide increased opportunities for women helmers and those from underrepresented groups.

Since its founding, the Directors’ Workshop has helped to launch or further the TV directing careers of more than 60 women and/or people of color, according to WBTV.This year’s class was instructed by directors Bethany Rooney and Stacey K.

Black.Prior Directors’ Workshop graduates include Bola Ogun (Shadow & Bone, The Witcher, Walker, Lucifer), Stacey Muhammad (Queen Sugar, Harlem, Guilty Party, Love Life), Pamela Romanowsky (Gossip Girl, Riverdale, Prodigal Son), Marcus Stokes (The Walking Dead, Station 19, 9-1-1), Jennifer Phang (Secrets of Sulphur Springs pilot, The Flight Attendant, Riverdale, The Boys), Alexis Ostrander (Riverdale, American Horror Story, Cruel Summer, Servant), Sherwin Shilati (National Treasure, Animal Kingdom, Lucifer, Riverdale, Manifest), Michael Goi (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Riverdale, American Horror Story, Big Sky), Antonio Negret (Hightown, Prodigal Son, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The 100), Jude Weng (Black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Good Place, Young Sheldon), and Jaffar Mahmood (Young Sheldon, Brooklyn 99, Superstore), among many others.The following participants, culled from more than