Everyone tells you to "find a mentor." Nobody tells you how to actually be worth mentoring. This isn't about networking tips or coffee strategies. It's about understanding what gets writers' assistants promoted, what makes mid-level writers indispensable, and why some people build careers while others stay stuck. We'll break down the unspoken rules of writers' rooms, decode the actual hierarchy (spoiler: "Story Editor" doesn't mean what you think), and explain why your job isn't to be brilliant — it’s to be consistently useful. Whether you're trying to land your first assistant job or figure out how to turn coffee into real mentorship, we'll give you the specific moves that work and the mistakes that sink you. Plus: the traffic light system for when to speak up, why your relationship with studio execs matters even if they don't know your name yet, and what to do when the showrunner looks at you like you just suggested setting the episode on Mars.

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PARTICIPANTS

Dara Resnik

Dara Resnik is a writer and showrunner whose credits include Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Pushing Daisies, Mistresses, Castle, Jane the Virgin, Shooter, Joey Soloway's I Love Dick, and Marvel's Daredevil. She created and showran Home Before Dark for Apple TV+, a drama inspired by real-life 12-year-old crime reporter Hilde Lysiak, and followed season 2 with showrunning The Horror of Dolores Roach for Amazon Studios and Blumhouse. Dara wrote and produced the independent film California Scenario with her partner James Takata which debuted at the 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Dara is in development on a limited series about Robert Durst and an adaptation of romance novel Viable Threat, both for UCP/Peacock.

Alex Rubin

Alex is a fixer. A former press manager, she can fix your image. A former Apple Genius, she can fix your phone. A former PA for the Radio City Rockettes, she can fix… anything. So she’s well equipped to write about broken families as they attempt to piece themselves back together. This is, of course, inspired by Alex’s own fascinating family of government agents, body snatchers, and cult defectors.

Alex started her career as the showrunners’ assistant and script coordinator on Amazon’s The Horror of Dolores Roach followed by a season as the writers room assistant for Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias. She is now a staff writer on Sweet Magnolias season 5, releasing June 2026. Alex has written for iHeart Radio’s “Solve” and PEG’s “Jackie Cox Variety Show”. After graduating from USC with her MFA in Writing for Film & Television, Alex was selected for the 2021 WIF/Black List Episodic Lab with her pilot Lost Hope Hotel. She is a FORGE Fellow, the inaugural Script Writing Score Fellow, and one of ISA’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2023.

Quincy Cho

Quincy is a bi writer, filmmaker, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is a Writers’ Room Assistant on Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias, where she’ll also be making her debut as a credited TV writer via freelance script. As a cross-media writer, she combines her experience in theatre, improv, sketch comedy, and webcomics to create original work and adapt IP in both traditional and new media formats. Her writing accolades include Lilly Wachowski’s Anarchists United Foundation Writers Discovery Fellowship, HBO’s Amy Aniobi’s Tribe Writers Program Fellowship, Women in Animation Mentorship Circle, and The Fellowship—a creative accelerator for BIPOC fantasy novella writers. The daughter of blue-collar Korean immigrants, Quincy’s work explores absurdity and complex relationships through character-driven stories grounded in emotionality and unseen worlds. She enjoys pole dancing, hot yoga, snowboarding, scuba, and all the food. She cries every day and can run 1 mile. Neither make her mother happy. www.quincycho.com

Seventh Wave is so excited for the celebratory reading for our 2026 digital residency program, "Narrative Shifts." For the past six weeks, we've been sifting through many aspects, elements, and portals of craft, the writing process, and our narratives. Each session was centered around a single topic — be it archives or permission, world-building or form. Our digital residency program is called Narrative Shifts because we believe that narratives do shift — within ourselves, between each other, and beyond our bodies. It has been such a joy to be in community with our 13 residents in this spring cohort, and we can't wait to hear each of them put voice to their work. Join us for a special, intimate gathering on Saturday, April 25, from 8-10 a.m. PST to hear each of our 13 residents share words from — or about — their work.

Please reach out. By invite only.

Yall wanted more BAD DRAG?! YOU GOT IT! The city’s crunchiest drag competition is back! Category is ALL WINNERS! That’s right, we’ve invited all of Bad Drag Race’s past winners back for a chance to prove once and for all- who is THE WORST OF THE WORST!?!?

This is a comedy-first drag competition like nothing you’ve seen before! Poise? Polish? Glamour? NO, BITCH - this is Bad Drag Race! Get your tix now, because this sh*t will absolutely be SOLD OUT.

Hosted by Basic Bitch (Mano Agapion), Ozma (Oscar Montoya), and Leland!

Featuring…
Ryan Parseghian (Ryanni)
Nicholas Scheppard (Trudy Tective)
Kyle Kasabian (Anita Tension)
Quincy Cho (Hex)
Jesse Esparza (Ivy Drankin’)
Christopher Renfro (The Meat Skeleton)
Lars Melly (Pit Crew)
David Brandyn (Pit Crew)
Paul Robalino (Pit Crew)
Donzell Lewis (Layali Sunshine)
Mano Agapion (Basic Bitch)
Oscar Montoya (Ozma)

Doors: 9:45pm | 18+ General Admission

Tickets: 
In Person: $20 Advanced / $25 Day of Show
Livestream: $15

Lineup subject to change | No item minimum | No late entry

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Theatre for Youth table reading of When Yuri Met Malcolm by Rosie Narasaki produced by East West Players Arts Education. Free.

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Yall wanted more BAD DRAG?! YOU GOT IT! The city’s crunchiest drag competition is back! Category is ALL WINNERS! That’s right, we’ve invited all of Bad Drag Race’s past winners back for a chance to prove once and for all- who is THE WORST OF THE WORST!?!?

This is a comedy-first drag competition like nothing you’ve seen before! Poise? Polish? Glamour? NO, BITCH- this is Bad Drag Race! Get your tix now, because this sh*t will absolutely be SOLD OUT.

Hosted by Basic Bitch (Mano Agapion), Ozma (Oscar Montoya), and Nicole Byer!

Doors: 9:45pm | 18+ General Admission

Tickets: $20 Advanced / $25 Day of Show

Lineup subject to change | No item minimum | No late entry

Buy your tickets here.

Come join us for an electrifying evening of diverse comedy as The Ledge Ensembles pairs up with the incredible all Asian American Female ensemble Number One Son!

NUMBER ONE SON

Number One Son is an improv ensemble that celebrates their diverse talent and creates high-octane comedy for diverse audiences. Their inclusive energy is something they’ve searched for as they were coming up as comediennes, and they found it with each other.

And they want to share it with our audiences because sometimes, you just gotta have a good time.

As alums of various improv and sketch programs, Number One Son is an Asian-American femme improv team who has been playing together for over 8 years on stages across Los Angeles, including the Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City LA and The Clubhouse. We’ve also participated in the Del Close Marathon, the LA Diversity in Comedy Festival and the Comedy Comedy Festival.

The cast includes

• Ai Yoshihara: @ai_comedian

• Janzy Paraiso: @janzyparaiso

• Kay Kaanapu: @kaykaanapu

• Kaitlyn Tanimoto: @totallymoto

• Kelly Marie Tran: @kellymarietran

• Kim Cooper: @kimcoopie

• Quincy Cho: @quincydinosaur

Find them on

• IG: @wearenumber1son

• FB: @wearenumber1son

Buy your tickets here.

Come join us for an electrifying evening of diverse comedy as The Ledge Ensembles pairs up with the incredible all Asian American Female ensemble Number One Son!
We are proud to have these ensembles grace our stage:

NUMBER ONE SON

Number One Son is an improv ensemble that celebrates their diverse talent and creates high-octane comedy for diverse audiences. Their inclusive energy is something they’ve searched for as they were coming up as comediennes, and they found it with each other.

And they want to share it with our audiences because sometimes, you just gotta have a good time.

As alums of various improv and sketch programs, Number One Son is an Asian-American femme improv team who has been playing together for over 8 years on stages across Los Angeles, including the Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City LA and The Clubhouse. We’ve also participated in the Del Close Marathon, the LA Diversity in Comedy Festival and the Comedy Comedy Festival.

The cast includes

• Ai Yoshihara: @ai_comedian

• Janzy Paraiso: @janzyparaiso

• Kay Kaanapu: @kaykaanapu

• Kaitlyn Tanimoto: @totallymoto

• Kelly Marie Tran: @kellymarietran

• Kim Cooper: @kimcoopie

• Quincy Cho: @quincydinosaur

Find them on

• IG: @wearenumber1son

• FB: @wearenumber1son

Buy your tickets here.

Come join us for an electrifying evening of diverse comedy as The Ledge Ensembles pairs up with the incredible all Asian American Female ensemble Number One Son!
We are proud to have these ensembles grace our stage:

NUMBER ONE SON

Number One Son is an improv ensemble that celebrates their diverse talent and creates high-octane comedy for diverse audiences. Their inclusive energy is something they’ve searched for as they were coming up as comediennes, and they found it with each other.

And they want to share it with our audiences because sometimes, you just gotta have a good time.

As alums of various improv and sketch programs, Number One Son is an Asian-American femme improv team who has been playing together for over 8 years on stages across Los Angeles, including the Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City LA and The Clubhouse. We’ve also participated in the Del Close Marathon, the LA Diversity in Comedy Festival and the Comedy Comedy Festival.

The cast includes

• Ai Yoshihara: @ai_comedian

• Janzy Paraiso: @janzyparaiso

• Kay Kaanapu: @kaykaanapu

• Kaitlyn Tanimoto: @totallymoto

• Kelly Marie Tran: @kellymarietran

• Kim Cooper: @kimcoopie

• Quincy Cho: @quincydinosaur

Find them on

• IG: @wearenumber1son

• FB: @wearenumber1son

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