Venessa Peruda: Comedian in Brooklyn, New York.

Venessa Peruda
Character descriptions

Can anyone confirm/deny that WOC or POC is acceptable/industry standard these days? Thank u!

Venessa Peruda

I initially thought WOC/POC was a way to specify a character as non-white, but keep the ethnicity open for casting. But according to this discussion, some people don't even recognize the term, and it comes off as lazy or offensive. Query resolved!

Christine Capone

I was curious as I've never seen those type of descriptions before. In one of my scripts, I described a Boston police officer as a black male on the cusp of retirement. For some reason, this is how I...

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Peter Roach

I describe my characters fully. For age I uses general terms , teen, young, forty something. But I describe race or gender because it fits the stories I write. The story is yours; if you wrote the cha...

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Johnny Zito

HI Venessa. Thank you for connecting

Venessa Peruda

Likewise!

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Venessa. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

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Amanda Toney

Hello Venessa -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

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