The goal of the Rx Laughter Script Mentoring Project is to nurture new writing talent, raise awareness of the role of entertainment for improved well-being, and increase support for our charitable projects through the tax deductible consultation fee to Rx Laughter. Please see below for more information.

(Contact Info, Overview and Credentials)

Contact Info:
Please email Sherry Dunay Hilber at ContactRxLaughter@gmail.com if you are interested in receiving a script consultation for an original comedy or drama feature, short story, or television comedy or drama primetime script. Please put "Rx Laughter Script Mentoring" in the Subject Line of the email so that we know that it is not Spam. In the body of your email, please let us know the approximate number of pages of your script and the genre (pilot, series spec, feature, short story, and whether your material is comedy or drama)

Sherry Dunay Hilber will read and give notes on each script individually and privately. See separate section below for Sherry's credentials.

We will respond with info about the reasonably-priced fee structures that include options regarding the level of detailed feedback that you would like and the turnaround time for comments.

Student discounts for undergraduate and graduate students are possible with proof of student status and need.

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Overview:
This is an individual script note session for writers of any level (new or experienced) who would like to receive help with their scripts or other original material (structure, characters, content) to prepare for annual Writer Fellowships, Workshops, Competitions and Television and Film writing positions of any level.

Students of television, film and theater should not feel that their script must be one that an experienced professional television writer would submit for feedback. We completely understand that you are not at this point (yet!). However, we do ask that students and other beginning level script writers submit their spec in a professional format that displays a thought-out, general fundamental understanding of character, structure and storytelling so that we can have a productive discussion about how to improve the script.

Regarding the above, please note that our consultation focuses exclusively on the creative aspects of your script (not on technical or formatting aspects which are standardized and easily available from various reference sources).

The consultation fee can be paid as a tax deductible donation to Rx Laughter which will then be used to help Rx Laughter continue our work as an entertainment charity that helps people who are coping with serious illnesses and trauma. (www.RxLaughter.Org).

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Credentials of Sherry Dunay Hilber:
Ms. Hilber is a Script Consultant for the 2009/2010 Warner Bros. Tv Writers Workshop, The CBS Diversity Writers Institute, and several ABC/Disney Fellowship Talent Development Writers Fellowship Competitions. Sherry reads hundreds of spec script submissions and critiques each one, narrowing down and selecting the best of the submissions for final judging.

As Director of Current Primetime Programming for ABC, Sherry supervised the creative and management aspects of high profile, No. 1 series Roseanne, Home Improvement, and in a similar capacity at CBS Entertainment for primetime series that includes Cybill, Touched by an Angel and Promised Land.

In these network and studio positions, Sherry was charged with overseeing all script and rough cuts of each weekly episode; recommending new writers (submitted by Hollywood and New York tv lit agents) for picked-up pilots and for ongoing primetime series for ABC and CBS Entertainment.

Sherry Dunay Hilber is also the Founder & Executive Director of Rx Laughter, Rx Laughter is an Entertainment Therapy, Research and Education nonprofit organization that implements television and films into health care to reduce pain and trauma. www.RxLaughter.org.

Sherry has co authored the results of the Rx Laughter Research study at the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center regarding the benefits of enjoyable entertainment during medical treatments. These findings are published in the scientific peer-reviewed international medical Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine with UCLA Professors Margaret Stuber MD and Lonnie Zeltzer MD of the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute & Hospital and the Mattel UCLA Children's Hospital.

Ms. Hilber creates and implements Rx Laughter tv, film and live Therapeutic, Research and Educational projects, raises funds for Rx Laughter, and implements the projects at hospitals and mental health clinics with clinical teams.

As spokesperson for Rx Laughter, her work is featured in newspapers, such as USA Today and the LA Times, national radio shows and on television shows that include Good Morning America and Lifetime Television.

Ms. Hilber can be reached at ContactRxLaughter@gmail.com.

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