Meet Our Class 2026
Summer 2026 Interns
Category: Physical Production/Business Management
Host Company: AGC Studios
Favorite Show: Club de Cuervos
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I grew up during what I consider the golden age of children's television, when Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network were creating shows that became cultural phenomena. Watching those networks build programming that an entire generation still references today shaped how I understood storytelling and branding. What really drew me to television was seeing how it brings people together: my family connecting over shows, friends bonding over shared moments, entire communities finding common ground. I wanted to be part of an industry that creates those experiences and brings stories to audiences in meaningful ways.
Category: Production — Animation (CG)
Host Company: Asteria Film Co.
Favorite Show: Better Call Saul
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I’ve always wanted to become an animator, but only recently have I come to appreciate how powerful television is as a medium. Watching shows, especially animated ones, with friends and building community around it is a really special experience; I’d love to contribute to that by helping create characters, stories, and visuals that people connect with.
Category: Development — Scripted Series
Host Company: Hyphenate Media Group
Favorite Show: Fleabag
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Since I could walk, I wanted to be an actor; no one could have told me otherwise. However in high school, I also began writing scripts and collaborating on film sets. This helped me realize that I wanted to be a part of the television-making process from the very beginning and to have more of a say in what gets told and how. Thanks to amazing teachers and inspirations like Phoebe Waller-Bridge, I believe these goals can become a reality.
Category: Production — Scripted Series
Host Company: Hallmark Media
Favorite Show: Modern Family
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
It all started when my middle school theater director, Patrick Campbell, made me his assistant. When I was little, I always thought that acting would be a fun hobby, but once I got behind the scenes, I found that entertainment was really my life's passion. I'm so thankful to Mr. Campbell for starting me on this path and to my friends and family for all of their support throughout this journey!
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted (Development)
Host Company: Blink49 Studios
Favorite Show: RuPaul's Drag Race
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Whether it's a hard-hitting drama series, a surprisingly intense competition show, or a riveting true crime story, television has been my favorite entertainment format. The episodic format can be adapted to any type of story, allowing for diversity within the craft. With television, I never get tired of being on the edge of my seat after each episode ends.
Category: Development — Scripted Series
Host Company: Shondaland
Favorite Show: How I Met Your Mother
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
My favorite TV show has been How I Met Your Mother for as long as I can remember. There's just something about falling in love with perfectly imperfect characters as they go throughout numerous ups and downs that has always inspired me. Watching that show made me realize that I, too, wanted to create stories with characters that inspire people to take their destiny into their own hands and trust that everything will work out.
Category: PR/Publicity
Host Company: Jill Fritzo PR
Favorite Show: The Studio
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Growing up in Studio City, surrounded by Hollywood and all of its magic, I feel like this dream was seeded from a very young age. But I would definitely say my mom is my biggest inspiration. I truly owe it all to her. She worked in broadcast TV covering the early morning breaking news and even won two Emmys (which is actually what I’m named after), so it all feels very full circle. I feel so incredibly lucky to have such a driven, inspiring role model who sparked my passion.
Category: Development — Scripted Series
Host Company: The Walt Disney Company/FX
Favorite Show: Atlanta
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I hail from a long tradition of African orators, living room actors, and part-time performers. Unknowingly, these dynamic experiences have shaped my voice as a storyteller. As I begin to tell my tale, it's only natural that I want to partake in stories that embody my aunt's cadence of speech, paint my uncle's wrinkles, and celebrate my grandmother's laugh.
Category: Music
Host Company: Music Box Studios
Favorite Show: Normal People
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I've been taking lessons from the same piano teacher since I was 7 years old. He always encouraged my evolving interests in musical genres, especially when it landed at learning how to play the music from my favorite movies and shows. His support and guidance in the field is the reason why I am able to pursue a career in the entertainment/music industry.
Category: Dick Wolf Foster Youth — Production
Host Company: Hallmark
Favorite Show: Beef
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
My inspiration for a career in television was my own journaling; there was a structure to it that for a long time I couldn’t figure out. They were dialogue-heavy, and showed characters in my life grow, change, and survive circumstances that they didn’t choose. I began to write alternate endings, but found myself drawn to the original ones where growth and conflict coexisted. It was the most imperfect stories that had meaning, and I found television to be the perfect medium to tell them.
Category: Production — Live Television
Host Company: Jesse Collins Entertainment
Favorite Show: Sharp Objects
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Watching PBS kids growing up and always being creative made me want to pursue a career in television. My love for collaborating with others within creative spaces like indie film sets and productions in school made me want to follow this love for creating even further.
Category: Sound
Host Company: Signature Post
Favorite Show: The Office
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Some of the fondest memories I have with my family and friends are sitting on the couch together watching the newest episodes of the shows we loved on Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, and TLC. Shows like Regular Show, Gravity Falls, and Cake Boss all connected us emotionally. Today, that same feeling remains whenever we sit down to watch shows like The Bear, Love on the Spectrum, or Severance. What inspires me most about television is its ability to connect people through storytelling, and the single aspect that interested me most was sound. The way music, dialogue, and sound effects come together to heighten emotion and deepen what we see on screen is often overlooked. I found a deeper appreciation for this in my professor Bill Wolter’s Sound for Film class, where I learned how much work goes into even a single minute of a scene. That experience gave me a lasting respect for the craft of sound, and I haven’t looked at storytelling the same way since. I hope to contribute to stories through sound in a way that moves and connects with audiences the same way television has always moved me.
Category: News — Broadcast
Host Company: KABC7
Favorite Show: Severance
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
My family and friends have always pushed me to do things that make me happy. I have been fortunate enough to take opportunities that fulfill my drive to tell the stories of others and bring joy to people around me and those that are watching. Their continued support and love has made me the person I am and the reason I look for a large platform, like television, to tell stories in a creative and different way.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted (Development)
Host Company: Hyphenate Media Group
Favorite Show: Freaks and Geeks
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Mister Rogers is such a big inspiration for me wanting to seek a career in television. He saw the impact TV could make and its potential effects as an educational tool, and it’s a mindset I strive to lead with in my work. I want to work in unscripted TV that brings audiences into new environments and/or challenges their ways of thinking. I want to spread messages of love and human connection through stories of real people.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted (Development)
Host Company: Bunim-Murray Productions
Favorite Show: Nobody Wants This
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
What inspired me to pursue a career in unscripted TV was the realization that it’s essentially a firsthand display of human nature. It places people in unique, high-pressure situations and reveals how they react, often bringing out new sides of them and I find that really interesting.
Category: Development — Unscripted Series
Host Company: Walt Disney Television
Favorite Show: RuPaul's Drag Race
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Originally from Florida, I moved 2,000 miles away with the sole intention of making movies and never expected to end up in television. Freshman year, I stumbled into a production course called “Game Show” taught by reality TV producer JD Roth, and I never looked back. I fell in love with the art of unscripted television and have since dedicated my studies to it. JD Roth continues to inspire me every day with his creativity and unwavering optimism.
Category: Design — Costume
Host Company: Terry Gordon
Favorite Show: Interview with the Vampire
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I have always been a film and TV show nerd and want to create works that promo promotes inclusion and diversity. I was inspired to do this by growing up as a queer girl in a small town and feeling like I didn’t have much television that represented me.
Category: Production - Documentary/Nonfiction/Unscripted
Host Company: Herizon Productions, LLC
Favorite Show: Atlanta
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
What inspired me to pursue a career in television was realizing how powerfully the medium can shape understanding of people and communities. Growing up in South Georgia, I rarely saw stories that reflected the complexity of my experiences as someone navigating both Black and Vietnamese identities. Discovering television that challenged that absence, especially shows like Atlanta, showed me that the medium could portray communities with honesty, nuance, and emotional depth. My interest deepened through my work in journalism at CNN, where I saw how visual storytelling could bring urgency and humanity to breaking news. That combination of creative possibility and real-world impact is what ultimately drew me toward television.
Category: Editing
Host Company: Ping Pong Productions
Favorite Show: Arcane
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I've been editing since I was twelve, starting with YouTube videos and short skits with friends in middle school, so I always knew that I liked storytelling. But growing up Korean American in Los Angeles and seeing other Korean directors like Bong Joon Ho and Lee Isaac Chung make it to the highest levels of cinema opened a door in my mind that I don't think I could have opened on my own. Then Lee Sung Jin's Beef came along and showed me what was possible for those who wrote raw, funny, uncomfortable, and completely uncompromising stories. Those directors are the reason I believe that the stories I want to tell will eventually find their way in this industry.
Category: Dick Wolf Foster Youth — Production
Host Company: Shondaland
Favorite Show: Andor
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I was inspired to pursue a career in television because storytelling has played a meaningful role in helping me understand myself and the world around me. George Lucas created the Star Wars universe, which showed me how stories can explore identity, belonging, and resilience in a deeply personal way. The writing of Andor by Tony Gilroy, along with Adolescence, further showed me how television can reflect complex emotional and social realities with honesty and depth. These stories shaped how I see the power of television and first made me want to understand how meaningful storytelling is created.
Category: Casting
Host Company: Betty Mae, Inc.
Favorite Show: Friends
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
My family has always advocated for me to grow into the fullest version of myself. I found constant inspiration in our routine of watching tv and eating together, where on the couch of my living room I could go through the full range of human emotions. That feeling of limitlessness was captured through storytelling and it made me want to create stories that can make someone else feel seen in the same way.
Category: Editing
Host Company: Geiger Post
Favorite Show: Better Call Saul
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I’m drawn to television because of the rhythm and collaboration of episodic storytelling. There’s something artful in shaping a story that evolves, deepens, and builds a relationship with its audience. That long-form rhythm is compelling and challenging in the best way.
Category: Digital Media
Host Company: RMVISTAR
Favorite Show: I Love Lucy
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Growing up, my mom had me watch a lot of older television, so most of my basis for television came from shows from the '50s and '60s. This sparked my interest in not only the history of television, but how far the industry has come. I will always thank my mom for that!
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted (Development)
Host Company: Endemol Shine North America
Favorite Show: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
My undergraduate professor, Cedric Rembert, is who truly inspired me to pursue a career in television. I had my doubts at first, being a Black woman from a small town who attended an HBCU, and I often questioned if there was space for me in the industry. He had a tough love approach, but he always kept it real with me and pushed me to think bigger. I remember him telling me to stop limiting myself to mass communications and to go out to Los Angeles and make a name for myself, reminding me, “If others are getting projects made with half your talent, imagine what you could do if you went all in.” That mindset has stayed with me ever since.
Category: Production Management
Host Company: Asteria Film Co.
Favorite Show: The Good Place
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Donald Glover's show Atlanta and Quinta Brunson inspired me to take my passion for television seriously. I've always wanted to tell my story, but often felt it was "too much." Their stories awakened a truth in me that my story matters and can be told.
Category: Agency
Host Company: United Talent Agency
Favorite Show: South Park
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in television after attending a showrunning workshop with Chris Levinson through my university. What really inspired me was seeing the storytelling potential that television has, especially the way characters and themes can grow over time across multiple episodes and seasons. It made me excited by how TV allows stories to breathe, evolve, and build a deeper emotional connection with audiences than many other formats. That experience made me realize this was the kind of storytelling space I wanted to be in.
Category: Writing — Drama
Host Company: Miramax Television
Favorite Show: Avatar: The Last Airbender
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I’d write scripts and perform them for my family to convince them to overhaul their entire lives and move to Hollywood to pursue my dreams as an actress, but my mom insisted I become a writer instead. After my passion for acting fizzled out, I struggled to choose a person to interview for a high school career project. My aunt, who lived in LA, suggested I interview her neighbor Jonathan Glatzer, just to see if I’d be interested in TV writing as a potential life path. The rest is history!
Category: Writing — Comedy
Host Company: Warner Bros. / I Suck at Girls
Favorite Show: Fleabag
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
When I was a junior in high school, a writer from The Office (my absolute favorite show at the time) was a guest speaker in one of my classes. That was the first time I realized that writing for television could even be a job. It got me on the path to study screenwriting and pursue a career in television writing myself.
Category: Production — Animation (Hand Drawn)
Host Company: Titmouse
Favorite Show: Avatar: The Last Airbender
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Animated shows like Adventure Time and Avatar: The Last Airbender are what inspired me to seek a career in animation television. Animated television has a charming and creative way of putting out entertaining stories. I aspire to work on a show that tells a spectacular story.
Category: Development — Scripted Series
Host Company: Bristol Circle Entertainment
Favorite Show: Avatar The Last Airbender
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Overall, what inspired me to seek a career in television was my parents. Growing up surrounded by creativity greatly influenced me in finding my passion for visual expression and storytelling. Their work and encouragement only further pushed me to explore things such as writing, editing, and all the sectors of the film industry, ultimately leading me to pursue a career in a space where I can create meaningful and impactful narratives.
Category: Production — Commercials
Host Company: Radical Media, Media Arts Lab, Cosmo Street
Favorite Show: Doctor Who
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Television is what has brought me closest to people in my life while growing up homeschooled. Sharing the joy with friends over our favorite shows ignited a need to be creative, and that spark turned into a passion for branded entertainment. Working in the branded space lets me share that same joy in the short form and allows me to combine my love for film production and business!
Category: PR/Publicity
Host Company: Organic
Favorite Show: Everybody Hates Chris
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
As a kid, television became my escape, allowing me to dream beyond my immediate surroundings and visualize a world built on storytelling. I was deeply inspired by shows like One Day at a Time, Everybody Hates Chris, and The Office. These shows were purposeful in turning ordinary life moments into impactful, humorous, and relatable content. Witnessing how these narratives resonated with diverse audiences fueled my desire to work behind the scenes and join the efforts that bring such projects to life.
Category: Visual Effects
Host Company: Barnstorm VFX
Favorite Show: Doctor Who
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I enjoy watching TV and getting invested in the plot, characters, and story. As a way to keep the magic going, I like to look up some of the behind-the-scenes videos and learn how the show used VFX to tell the story and immerse the viewer. When I got to college, I realized I wanted to be apart of that and help tell future stories.
Category: Development — Children's
Host Company: Cloudco Entertainment
Favorite Show: Lucifer
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I have loved television ever since I was a little kid, and so many of my core memories revolve around TV shows and the lessons that I have learned from them. One of my earliest memories is sitting on the floor of my grandmother's daycare watching Sesame Street. I remember learning how to be a good neighbor and friend from Big Bird and Elmo. When I realized that I could be the one making those television shows and creating new worlds, I knew I wanted to do that.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted (Development)
Host Company: 44 Blue Productions
Favorite Show: Seinfeld
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Television inspired me to seek a career in television. Writers like Trey Stone, Matt Parker, and Dan Harmon showed me that there is so much more flexibility with story structure.
Category: Agency
Host Company: Authentic Talent + Literary Management
Favorite Show: Breaking Bad
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I was inspired by the trailblazers and storytellers who have received recognition on-screen, and the many, many more who have not yet been recognized. As a kid, I religiously watched the behind-the-scenes on DVD menus and read as much as I could about the people, places, and things that shaped Hollywood. From an early age, I realized the unique power of storytelling and media, and I am super delighted to be a Television Academy Intern this summer!
Category: Development — Scripted Series
Host Company: Sandstone Artists
Favorite Show: You
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Growing up being a kid who preferred staying indoors, television was my escape from reality as I immersed myself to be in the characters’ stories and backgrounds. It helped me find confidence in ways I hadn’t yet grown into, and it nurtured the imagination that eventually blossomed into my passion for writing. As I grew older, I experimented with acting out scenes with my dolls. Soon after that, I gravitated towards writing scenarios in my notebook. Television didn’t just entertain me, it taught me empathy, perspective-taking, and the joy of stepping into someone else’s shoes for a while.
Spring 2026 Interns
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted
Host Company: Hyphenate Media Group
Favorite Show: : Gilmore Girls
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I was inspired to seek a career in television by the hours of sitcoms I'd watch growing up. The idea of television as a cultural phenomenon excited me; simply, the concept of the entire world huddling around their living room TV screen to see a finale or watch a new episode inspired me to want to work in an industry with impact and reach.
Category: Agency
Host Company: Dean Panaro Talent
Favorite Show: VEEP
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Whenever I struggled to fall asleep as a child, my parents would let me sneak down past my bedtime and watch shows like SNL, 30 Rock, VEEP, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Coincidentally, I “couldn’t sleep” most nights. Being raised on series created by some of the wittiest and most creative minds in comedy ignited my passion for television. Beyond the shows themselves, I was inspired by the lively discussions they sparked and the joy they brought my family as we gathered around the TV each night. I knew then that I wanted a career in television so I could help bring that same sense of connection and happiness to homes everywhere.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted
Host Company: 44 Blue Productions
Favorite Show: Station Eleven
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Growing up as both Black and Latino, I often only saw half of myself represented on screen. Seeing my little brother's eyes light up while watching Miles Morales in Spidey and His Amazing Friends reignited my passion for television.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted
Host Company: Lighthearted Entertainment/Blink 49
Favorite Show: Friends
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I’ve always known I wanted to work in entertainment, even if I didn’t fully understand what that meant as a kid. Television stood out to me as a space where storytelling, creativity, and impact come together in a powerful way. Over time, that instinct became a clear passion, driven by my own curiosity and love for the medium. Ultimately, it was my personal drive and belief in this industry that inspired me to pursue a career in television.
Category: Interactive Media
Host Company: Getty Images
Favorite Show: Gilmore Girls
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
My inspiration to pursue a career in television began with my mom. Growing up, we bonded over watching telenovelas together, and those moments made our nightly TV time feel so special. As I got older, I found myself constantly binge-watching shows and becoming fascinated not just by the stories, but by how they were created. That curiosity eventually turned into the realization that entertainment wasn’t just something I loved, it was something I could pursue as a career.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted
Host Company: Endemol Shine North America
Favorite Show: Family feud
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
The person who inspired me to pursue a career in television is my Aunt Sandra Nduna, who works as the Director of Sales & International Distribution at Dick Clark Productions. Ever since I was a kid, my aunt has always stressed the importance of taking risks in pursuit of my dreams. An idea she has lived by, taking her own risks, coming to the United States alone with only a couple of thousand dollars and a dream of one day working in Hollywood. Thanks to her hard work and determination, my aunt made her dreams come true, not only becoming extremely successful but also paving the way for my family to come to the United States.
Category: Development: Scripted
Host Company: Blumhouse Productions
Favorite Show: Beef
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I’ve always loved stories, whether that meant going to the movies, seeing plays and musicals, or just staying at home watching TV. So I knew from a pretty young age I wanted to be a part of the storytelling instead of just watching from the audience. Just being involved in the process, whatever way that may be, is something appealing to me.
Category: Getting Real: Unscripted
Host Company: Bunim-Murray Productions
Favorite Show: Normal People
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I've always been interested in pursuing a career in entertainment. Specifically, I admire how television is a collaborative medium that depends on the work of artists both behind the scenes and on camera to tell meaningful stories to inspire and unify people everywhere. I love how television uniquely brings audiences together regardless of their background and creates shared experiences which allows people to connect. Understanding how television can shape how we view the world and everyone in it has inspired me to become a leader and advocate for more inclusive entertainment
Category: Editing
Host Company: Geiger Post
Favorite Show: House M.D.
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
Throughout my entire childhood I cannot think of one moment where the television was not on in the parlor. My grandmother watching the news, my grandfather watching old Westerns and classic films, and my mom watching reality shows and dramas. The first time I got a real taste of the industry was getting to see the behind the scenes of both a newsroom and a local television studio. I was enamored with all the logistics and effort that go into completing what I once thought was a straightforward, simple process, and since then I have wanted to be a part of it myself.
Category: Production Management
Host Company: Herizon Productions, LLC
Favorite Show: Teen Wolf
What inspired you to seek a career in television?
I’ve always loved creating and that passion has been with me since I was young. My parents inspired me through their dedication and hard work, teaching me the importance of following your passions. Their example fueled my love for storytelling and pushed me to pursue a career in television, where I can create stories that truly connect with people.
