Ep21: Follow Your Heart & Feed Your Focus with Elaine Loh

In this episode, I invited screenwriter Elain Loh ( "Gossip Girl", "Dynasty") to talk about being a TV writer, following your artistic pursuits & pivoting from acting to screenwriting, as well as her tips and advice for young artists.

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Elaine Loh spent a decade as a working actor before crossing over to the other side of the camera and joining the writing staff of Gossip Girl for HBOMax, followed by Dynasty for the CW (also a Top Ten show worldwide on Netflix). Elaine is an HBO Writing Fellow and a Silver Prize winner of the prestigious PAGE Awards. She was featured on the coveted Young & Hungry List by the Tracking Board, and was named a Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch by the International Screenwriter’s Association. Her short-form series, Doxxed, won a Telly Award, Best Short Comedy at the Catalyst Film Festival (formerly itvfest), and Best Achievement at Raindance.  Elaine considers herself an “artivist” - an artist and an activist - and as such, she has served as a member of the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Board of Directors, has run weekly phonebanks for voter registration army Field Team 6, and leads a political accountability group called Operation Checks and Balances. Elaine was born in Singapore, can solve a Rubik’s cube in less than two minutes, and is addicted to Wendy’s junior bacon cheeseburgers.

She can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/thatelaineloh