by Rosy Cordero, Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The annual NBC TV Writers Program from NBCU Launch is welcoming its 2024-25 class selected from a pool of 2,100 applicants: Bryce Cracknell, Domonic Diaz-Smith, Bixby Elliott, Helen Fernandez, Maia Henkin, Neda Jebelli, David Loong and Sebastián Rea.
NBCU Launch is the umbrella brand that houses the comprehensive inclusion efforts across NBCUniversal’s entertainment TV portfolio. The program was created to help develop emerging episodic TV writers whose distinct points of view and lived experiences provide unique perspectives to the writers’ room. It prepares writers to be staffed on scripted series with the long-term goal of developing the next generation of showrunners.
North Carolina native Bryce Cracknell is a writer, producer and director based in Los Angeles. As a storyteller, Cracknell seeks to elevate narratives, histories and experiences that are often overlooked, cast aside or forgotten. He is currently in post-production on his directorial debut film, “Save Yourself,” a hybrid-documentary on climate justice produced by Effie T. Brown and Gamechanger Films. Cracknell is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Anthem Award-winning environmental justice publication The Margin. He has led social impact campaigns for narrative and documentary features and television shows including “Descendant,” “Flee,” “My Name Is Pauli Murray,” “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” “Just Mercy” and “When They See Us.” In 2023, Forbes named him as one of 68 climate leaders changing the film and TV industry. Cracknell is a Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Scholar and a graduate of Duke University, where he earned a B.A. in public policy. Cracknell is repped by Kronicle Media.
