The Black Women Playwrights’ Group Presents

The Web Is The Way: How to Make, Market,
and Monetize Your Show on the Internet

April 24, 2010

CLICK HERE for a PDF of the flyer

By Michael Ajakwe, Jr.
Founder, LA Web Series Festival

Michael Ajakwe, Jr. is the president and founder of Ajakwe TV and created the first festival of TV series written and produced for the Internet, LA Web Series Festival. His original comedy screenplay, “419” won 2nd Place out of 150 submissions at the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival Storyteller Competition. In 2007, Mike adapted his one-act play, Happy Anniversary, Punk!, into a movie, which he also produced and directed. The 24-minute film dealing with Blackon- Black crime won the Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2003, he was the TV Professor for the Bill & Camille Cosby-sponsored Guy Alexander Hanks/Marvin H. Miller TV & Screenwriting Fellowship Program at USC. Program fellows he has mentored have gone on to write for shows like Girlfriends, One On One, The Division, My Wife & Kids, The Proud Family, ER, The District, Eve, Fatherhood, Kingpin and Lincoln Heights. Since 2004, Mike has been the Show Writer for the Annual NAACP Theater Awards.

(part of the "Linking Platforms" conference)

April 24, 2010    5:00pm to 8:00pm
Doubletree Hotel & Conference Center Chicago - North Shore
9599 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, IL 60077

Enrollment is Limited: Fee: $40 / Students: $20

Tickets available through InstantSeats.

For more information email: info@blackwomenplaywrights.org or call (202) 635-2974