Story Development and Analysis
Script Development and Script Analysis from a Working Hollywood Screenwriter and UCLA Screenwriting Instructor
Services:
• SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT. Through phone sessions, skype sessions, or in-person meetings, Monique Sorgen will help you develop your script from the concept phase through the outline and on to the first and subsequent drafts.
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Meetings are conducted by phone or Zoom. In-person meetings available for Los Angeles residents for $25/hr. extra.
CONSULTING RATES (Same rate for Shorts and Features)
• Story/script meeting(s): $150/hr.
• Special six-meeting rate: $750
• Special three-meeting rate (only available for Short films): $400
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• SCRIPT ANALYSIS. Monique will read your finished screenplay and provide you with candid, constructive feedback and notes that only a working professional can offer.
CONSULTING RATES FEATURE FILM
• with one hour notes meeting: $425
• with 4-6 pages of written notes: $600
• Additional read after rewrite: $400
• Treatment analysis: $25/pg.
CONSULTING RATES SHORT FILM (20 pages and under)
• with one hour notes meeting: $225
• with written notes: $300
• Additional read after rewrite: $150
• Treatment analysis: $25/pg.
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Pitch Preparation
• PITCH PREPARATION. Monique can help you prepare a strong and effective, well presented pitch for film, television, or web series. She will help you rehearse your delivery, as well as prepare you for the difficult questions you will be asked by the buyer.
• $150/hr over Zoom
• $25/hr additional for in person meeting (in Los Angeles) (recommended)
Writing
Screenwriting. Monique Sorgen has written over 40 screenplays, including film and television scripts.
She excels in comedy, romantic-comedy, drama, true stories, and book adaptations.
As a member of the Writer's Guild of America, her rates are subject to the WGA Minimum Basic Agreement for all work for the screen. WGA rates can be found here.
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Copywriting. Monique has written copy for both print and screen for multiple brands including Metrolink, Wet n'wild, AAA, Oakwood Apartments, and many more. She has also worked on restaurant naming projects.
Rate: $75/hr
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Book and Novel writing. Monique will help you write the book that's been lingering inside of you, trying to get out.
Ghostwriting rates are $1.50/word
Credited rates are $1/word
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Textisodes. Monique now also writes fictional text message stories as seen on Hooked and Superbinge.
Rates are $35-$55/Final Draft page
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Anything else. Please let me know about your writing needs, and let's figure out what we can do!
Directing
Monique has directed narrative stories, reality TV, music videos, and branded spots. She loves to work on comedy and drama of all kinds, and will travel for work. Having started out in theater, she loves working with actors. Having trained in network television, she is fast and efficient, while maintaining a creative and unique style. She believes in making choices that are appropriate to each specific project.
To see her personal style and her work, please visit the homepage.
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Rates depend on the project. Let's talk!
Teaching
Monique comes from a long line of teachers. Everyone in her immediate family, from her parents, to her siblings, to her grandparents has at least grazed through the world of Education, if not made an entire career of it. The point here being that there was never a world in which Monique (whose very name means "Advisor") wasn't going to do some teaching at some point here and there.
Currently she teaches short film development at UCLA extension and directing at Mount St. Mary's University. She has also been a film school instructor at New York Film Academy and The International School of Film & Television, where she taught pitching, networking, the business of show business, producing, screenwriting, and new media. She is also a member of the Writer's Education Committee at the WGA, where she puts together panels to educate the membership on the ever changing state of the business.
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Before teaching film school, Monique had already amassed vast experience teaching drama at Marin Academy in their summer program, and creative movement, which she taught at Ecole Bilingue in Berkeley and Corinne A. Seeds elementary in Los Angeles.
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Outside of the creative arts, she has taught ESL (English as a second language), English conversation, and TOEFL (The Test of English as a Foreign Language) to adults from around the world, who were interested in attending an American University or advancing their business prospects by speaking English.
WGA Podcast Host
As a host on WGAw's podcast "3rd & Fairfax" Monique has interviewed almost 50 of the top writers in Hollywood. You can listen to all the episodes here.
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If you'd like to find Monique's hosting episodes specifically, they are listed below.
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Episode 359: Brittani Nichols (Abbott Elementary)
Episode 344: Greg Garcia (Sprung)
Episode 333: Claudia Forestieri & Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (The Gordita Chronicles)
Episode 320: Justin Noble (The Sex Lives of College Girls)
Episode 307: Michael Patrick King (And Just Like That...)
Episode 305: Courtney Lilly (Black-ish)
Episode 302: Ali Schouten (iCarly)
Episode 298: Jordan Weiss (Dollface)
Episode 291: Kourtney Kang (Doogie Kamealoha M.D.)
Episode 267: Kay Cannon (Cinderella)
Episode 264: Clay Tarver (Vacation Friends)
Episode 251: Iliza Shlesinger (Good on Paper)
Episode 247: Darlene Hunt (Call Me Kat)
Episode 243: Tracey Wigfield (Saved by the Bell)
Episode 241: Nikole Beckwith (Together Together)
Episode 215: Chris Matheson & Ed Solomon (Bill and Ted Face the Music)
Episode 191: Greg Daniels (Space Force & Upload)
Episode 189: Lee Eisenberg (Little America)
Episode 178: Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story)
Episode 139: Katie O'Brien & Kathryn Renee Thomas (Teachers)
Episode 138: Tim Doyle (The Kids Are Alright)
Episode 134: David Magee (Mary Poppins Returns)
Episode 119: Tamara Jenkins (Private Life)
Episode 115: Harry Ratchford, Joey Wells, & Matthew Kellard (Night School)
Episode 113: Lauren Miller Rogen (Like Father)
Episode 109: Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper)
Episode 105: Seth Meyers (Late Night with Seth Meyers)
Episode 100: Clip show retrospective highlights
Episode 99: Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
Episode 96: Josh Heald, John Hurwitz, & Hayden Schlossberg (Cobra Kai)
Episode 85: Julie Klausner (Difficult People)
Episode 81: Gloria Calderon Kellett & Mike Royce (One Day at a Time)
Episode 78: Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters (Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
Episode 72: Marti Noxon (To the Bone)
Episode 67: Erin Cardillo & Richard Keith (Life Sentence)
Episode 66: Nick Stoller & Francesca Delbanco (Friends from College)
Episode 65: Danny McBride & John Carcieri (Vice Principals)
Episode 63: Misha Green (Underground)
Episode 58: Pete Holmes (Crashing)
Episode 55: Gina Prince-Bythewood & Reggie Rock Bythewood (Shots Fired)
Episode 52: Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip)
Episode 48: Noah Oppenheim (Jackie)
Episode 47: Dan Fogelman (This is Us)
Episode 35: Stephen Falk (You're the Worst) (with co-host Steve Trautmann)