“I pursued acting and stand-up comedy at the same time, but I never really got as many opportunities in acting. In stand-up, you have a little more control over your own destiny,” says Jim Gaffigan, one of the most well-known come...

“I was a rugby player and a ballet dancer,” says Lesley Paterson, triathlete and co-screenwriter of the Oscar nominated All Quiet on the Western Front. Dabbling in acting and producing, it wasn’t until she met her writing partner ...

Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka met in the graduate program at Columbia Film School. Gatewood recalls, “We weren’t friends. We didn’t hang out, but we had our first screenwriting class together and we liked each others’ writi...