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Dan Fogelman, Nikki Toscano, Jen Statsky and Dan Erickson are among this year’s participants
Variety’s annual A Night in the Writers’ Room event returns on June 5, 2025 in Los Angeles. The event will feature intimate conversations and behind-the-scenes insights into the art and craft of television storytelling for a curated audience of TV voting members.
Programming for the evening includes three genre-based panels.
Limited Series/TV Movie panel moderated by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay featuring:
- Ian Brennan, Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer & Director – Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
- Lauren LeFranc, Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer – The Penguin
- Elizabeth Meriwether & Kim Rosenstock, Co-Creators, Executive Producers & Writers – Dying for Sex
- Olivia Milch, Co-Showrunner & Executive Producer – The Better Sister
- Nikki Toscano, Showrunner, Writer, Director & Executive Producer – Long Bright River
Drama Panel moderated by Variety’s senior TV features editor Emily Longeretta featuring:
- Dan Erickson, Creator, Executive Producer & Writer – Severance
- Dan Fogelman, Executive Producer & Showrunner – Paradise
- R. Scott Gemmill, Creator, Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer – The Pitt
- Barbie Kligman, Creator, Showrunner & Executive Producer – Doc
- Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, Executive Producers & Showrunners – Yellowjackets
- Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann, Co-Creators, Executive Producers, Writers & Directors – The Last of Us
- Ben Watkins, Creator, Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer – Cross
Comedy panel moderated by Variety’s executive TV editor Michael Schneider featuring:
- Erin Foster, Creator, Executive Producer & Writer – Nobody Wants This
- Justin Halpern, Executive Producer & Co-Showrunner – Abbott Elementary
- Sarah Naftalis, Executive Producer & Writer – What We Do in the Shadows
- Tad Quill, Writer, Showrunner & Executive Producer – Animal Control
- Benito Skinner, Creator, Executive Producer, Writer & Actor – Overcompensating
- Jen Statsky, Co-Creator, Co-Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer – Hacks
- Tony Tost, Showrunner – Poker Face
This year’s supporting partners include ABC, Apple TV+, Fox Entertainment, FX Networks, Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, Prime Video and Sony Pictures Television.
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