How do you go from Yale and Heidegger to Hollywood and “How many explosions can I fit on a page?” Writer David Loong is here to go over just that, his journey, and becoming a member of the 2024 – 2025 NBC TV Writers Program.
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More about David Loong:
David Loong writes genre dramas featuring deep worldbuilding and multicultural, code-switching outsiders. Born in Hong Kong, he attended high school in Oxfordshire, England before getting a B.A. in Intellectual History from Yale University. After brief career flirtations with consulting, crypto, and underwater archaeology, Loong earned an MFA from USC’s Screenwriting Division. He was selected for The Thousand Miles Project, UCP’s highly regarded talent incubator. After the program, he signed a deal with UCP to develop an original pilot, “The Englishman,” a boarding school thriller centered around a mysterious and cutthroat school competition, with “Pachinko” showrunner Soo Hugh. Loong is repped by Anonymous Content and IAG.
More about the NBC TV Writers Program:
Created in 2005, the NBC TV Writers Program is the company’s premier program that develops emerging episodic television writers whose distinct points of view and lived experiences provide unique perspectives to the writers’ room. This includes talent from various socio-economic backgrounds, geographic locations, racial and ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community and veterans, among other communities. The program prepares writers to be staffed on scripted series with the long-term goal of developing the next generation of showrunners.