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My Updated Resume

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Tweets by MicahGates8

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I am from the Flint, Michigan area. Because of its lack of resources, the water crisis, and high crime rate, Flint can be quite a bleak and depressing area. However, there's still something quite fascinating about the city. "Flintstones" often provide interesting, and sometimes very funny insight to their lives here. There is a rare strength here, and I have been able to draw from it and use it in my writing. I have been writing since I was a child, and decided early on that I wanted to make a living at it. After high school, I majored in Comedy Writing and Performance at Columbia College Chicago. I was one of the few black women in my classes, but I consider that a distinction. I followed the same path as Lena Waithe, the first black woman to win an Emmy for Comedy Writing! She is an alumni of CCC also! The stories I am most interested in telling are ones that will make others laugh and are a bit outrageous. My favorite writing genres are comedy (obviously) and horror. Since I am fresh out of college, I am still working on my TV writing craft. I am studying on my own, and I have been doing research on different shows, films, and web series. I am also taking an online Writing for Television Master Class taught by Shonda Rimes. Although I am still in the process of developing my unique writer's voice, I feel that I would make a good contribution to a writer's room by adding my current (and ever-developing) strengths- authenticity, sarcasm, and a bit of irony. As a young black woman, I feel that I could lend my voice in a writer's room in situations involving the "black experience". Quite a lot of shows and movies obviously lack writers of color, and it makes the characters of color seem so inauthentic. I would love to write for shows like Lovecraft Country, American Horror Story, or anything that involves Jordan Peele- it's my dream to work for Monkey Paw Productions as a writer! Mr. Peele's work typically has an amazing combination of horror, mystery, and comedy throughout their scripts. That's what I'm shooting for in my work.

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Micah Gates - Grand Blanc, Michigan, United States | Professional Profile | LinkedIn

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I am from the Flint, Michigan area. Because of its lack of resources, the water crisis, and high crime rate, Flint can be quite a bleak and depressing area. However, there's still something quite fascinating about the city. "Flintstones" often provide interesting, and sometimes very funny insight to their lives here.

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https://www.backstage.com/u/micah-gates/media/

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Clip from "Human People"

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Class of 2020

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micahavery97@gmail.com
(810) 908-1324 (call or text)

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Clip from "Human People"

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I played the role of Sidney in this collaborative project.

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I played the role of Sidney in this collaborative project.

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Collaborative writing, producing, directing, acting

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The Hallway- The Office Inspired Reality TV Sketch

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