How do you want to tell a story? Do you want to spoof great literary characters? Do you want to autotune speeches from the news? Or grab an  iPhone or a handheld camera and spin a brand new web series? The point is, you can open your own door when you create original content. The Web is gaining momentum as the go-to media outlet to watch a show. Sites like Hulu, Yahoo and Netflix now offer original web programming on their sites. Conde Naste is gearing up with online video content. There’s something democratic and refreshing about telling a story online with the chance of going viral. Web programming is getting more ambitious all the time, so much so the lines of quality between web and television are blurring. 

How is online storytelling changing our expectations of what a show can be? What sort of creative freedom do you find on the web that you don’t find at a network? How do you go about creating your own content? How do you build an audience for it? Come find out how web programming works as a medium, how it can work for the actor, and how it may just be the new television.

About The Business "Storytelling for the 21^st Century" Series
SAG Foundation invites you to participate in “Storytelling for the 21^st Century” – a summer 2013 The Business event series.  This carefully curated program aims to explore the emerging tools and modes of narratives available to storytellers in the new century.  Panels will cover a range of topics from adventure games to indie filmmaking to portrait documentary, interactive storytelling, shifting trends in musical theatre and transcending race and gender boundaries on the stage and screen.  New media platforms, tools and concepts provide innovative ways for the actor to become involved in the entertainment industry.  This series is intended to inform and equip a new generation of artists with the skills and trailblazing ingenuity to weave stories that are personally, socially and culturally relevant.

Meet the Panelists

Scott Broock
Executive Producer of WIRED

WIRED Executive Producer Scott Broock is responsible for developing original multi-platform content and overseeing all editorial video, including the brand’s recently announced slate of original programming. Prior to joining WIRED, Broock was a senior producer at News Corporation's The Daily, and his on-air promotional campaign work for ABC News and Nickelodeon was recognized with two Emmy nominations and several Promax/BDA awards. An accomplished International Tax attorney and telecommunications consultant, Broock received his B.A. from the University of Michigan, J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law, and LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two daughters and Wheaten Terrier.

Joshua Cohen
Co-Founder, Tubefilter

Joshua Coehn is the Co-Founder of Tubefilter the leading digital entertainment media company covering the online video industry and the definitive source for industry news, program reviews, and industry events. Properties include: Tubefilter News, the authority for online video industry and web series news and reviews; Tubefilter Events, a series where online video professionals gather to hear expert panel discussions and meet other advertisers, executives, and content creators; and the Streamy Awards, a star-studded awards show produced in partnership with dick clark productions, which honors excellence in online video programming.

Twitter.com/joshuaJcohen
Twitter.com/tubefilter
www.tubefilter.com
www.streamys.org

David-Michel Davies

David-Michel Davies (DMD) is the Executive Director of The Webby Awards and Co-Founder of Internet Week NY and Netted by the Webbys.

Getting his start as a junior staffer 13 years ago, DMD stood side-stage at the 3rd Annual Webby Awards as he watched Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning accept the award for Best Music Experience. Today he leads the organization from their office in New York City’s Flatiron District.

Dubbed "a master of things that are a little bit of a joke and a little bit serious" by The New York Times, DMD has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and Good Morning America to discuss Internet trends and news, and has also lectured audiences at a diverse mix of conferences and companies including Intel, IDEO and the Institute for the Future.

DMD lives with his wife Stella and son Louis in Brooklyn, NY.

Susan Miller

SUSAN MILLER is Executive Producer/Writer of acclaimed webseries, Anyone But Me, completing 3 seasons with over 36 million views worldwide. For her work on the show, Miller, and co-writer Tina Cesa Ward, won the first WGA Award given for Original New Media. Anyone But Me also won a Webby nomination in Drama; TV.com’s Best Web Drama; Clicker.com’s Best Web Drama; The Silver People’s Telly Award; the IAWTV’s Best Drama Writing Award, and was chosen as a YouTube “On the Rise” Partner. Miller has been a featured speaker at VidCon; Internet Week NY; IFP Script To Screen; Streaming Media West & East. An Obie winner and Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, Miller was a Consulting Producer on The L Word and Thirtysomething and is also the creator/writer of Bestsellers, a branded webseries.

www.SusanMillerplaywright.com
www.AnyoneButMeSeries.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBestsellersTV
Twitter: @susanmillernyc

Mike O’Gorman

MIKE O'GORMAN is a New York based actor, comedian, and writer. He is one of the creators and stars of the webseries TINY APARTMENT, which is in development as a series at Comedy Central. Additionally he has appeared in several comedies such as Delocated (Adult Swim), and Onion News Network (IFC). He can be seen in a variety of VH-1's talking head shows such as The Short List, and The Top 100 Song Of The 00's. He was a cast member of the Comedy Central animated series Ugly Americans, and is a permanent fixture on TruTV’s World’s Dumbest with new episodes premiering this summer.

Moderator

Nathan Bennett

Nathan Bennett is a writer and comedian living in New York City.  He has produced for online series such as HiFive, My Damn Channel Live and Life: A Gamers Guide. He is an Associate Producer at My Damn Channel and an independent content creator known on YouTube as OkayNate. 

*This event will be filmed and archived