BE BOLD.
WORK HARD.
TAKE CHANCES.
Tom Seeley is an Emmy award-winning writer, content creator, and storyteller.
Winner of the EMMY AWARD
Recipient of the Humanitas Prize
Honored as the first man to win the Woman in Film Award
EXPERIENCE:
Learning my craft in writers’ rooms in Hollywood, discovering not just the importance of a story but the essentials of listening, understanding, and working collaboratively.
Working with network presidents, agency creatives, UX designers, foundation leaders, professors, filmmakers, and fund-raisers.
Mentoring young Russian writers in Moscow for the Russian version of EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (over 100 episodes)
In comedy, laughter is just acknowledgment. The audience understands, they lean in, they want more. If your audience isn’t leaning in, doesn’t want more, then your message, your story, is wasted. I’ve learned how to connect people to ideas.
MEET TOM
In the movie, “Julia”, Lillian Hellman says to her friend, “Be bold. Work hard. Take chances.” I was new to Los Angeles when I heard this, and I wrote it on the first thing I could find, an old paper bag. I stuck to my bare living room wall and every time I walked out the door it was there, “Be Bold. Work Hard. Take Chances.”
And so I started my adventures as a Hollywood writer. My success at finding a job was immediate – within a week I was bartending and moving furniture. Finding work as a writer took longer. A spec script that I wrote with a partner reached the right people. It got made (and spec scripts never get made) and my career was launched.
Outside of work, I’ve spent over twenty years coaching youth sports. Ideas are a lot like kids. There can be a lot of them on the field and they all want to run around. A good coach, like a good content creator, has to be able to corral the herd. He has to know his message, he has to make it understandable, organize it, energize it and execute the game plan.
