Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lori Ann McKenna. And today we are doing a

Tab Time roundtable. Some of you might remember that I was the showrunner for season one of the

Tapitha Brown-led YouTube show Tab Time, which is an Emmy-winning kid screen, WGA, an N-A-CP award-winning

show. I was lucky enough to find a group of people to work with that I

admire and genuinely adore. This episode is the Find Your People episode and what we mean when we

talk about that on the show. Our guests today are Sean Prusant, David F.M. Vaughn and Maggie Gottlieb,

who have all been guests on the show before.

I met Sean and David at the first Sinistory TV retreat in 2017.

Sean was a fellow mentor, and we totally hit it off while playing a weird pool game,

laughing at a ridiculous video and coming up with ridiculous ideas.

David was one of my mentees that year, and even though he lives on the other

side of the country, we've met on Zoom every Thursday for the past eight, nine, or ten

years I don't remember. And we also come up with very ridiculous ideas together. When I got

the offer to run tab time, Sean and I were filming one of our ideas, Fart Squirrel, and yes, it's

amazing, and it's a real thing,

and it will definitely happen. It was my first time running a show, and Sean has so much

TV experience, and I knew he could really help me, and I could learn so much from him, so I asked

him to join me on the staff as the co-executive producer. Sean became the EP and showrunner for seasons two and three, and I was really happy to be

able to recommend David to him for a season two writer, and David's now a story editor.

Maggie was recommended to me by a writer we both love, and when I interviewed her for the

writer's assistant position, I just knew.

She is beyond amazing and smart and probably literally saved my life at least three times during production.

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