Independent Writers' Caucus
Sabrina Mansfield
Sabrina, aka “The New Normal Lear,” whips up 2-3 laughs a page for a greater purpose - to focus on the working class, people of color, and issues of equity. After trouncing metastatic cancer three times and surviving a lot of truly crazy medical trauma, you can believe a tame goal like becoming a professional TV writer isn’t going to scare her off. This grit and tenacity helped when she became a mother-of-five overnight as a foster parent in LA, a role she has held for over 14 years - and because of those experiences, she knows why her writing in children’s television needs to be done thoughtfully.
Multi-cam is Sabrina’s super-passion. She was the first grad student at USC to shoot an original multi-cam pilot (and an episode 1) in front of a live studio audience. Because of her passion for television, she was given the opportunity to do observerships with some of TV’s most accomplished directors, like James Burrows, Pam Fryman, Gail Mancuso and Warren Hutcherson (and over a dozen others).
Sabrina was recently selected for the 2024 Disability Belongs Fellowship for Writing Children’s Animation, she was a finalist for the Fred Rogers Productions Writing Fellowship and the ABC/Disney Directing Fellowship (for two years in a row!), and she is currently the Director of Events for the LA Children’s Media Association.
Honors & Awards
Semifinalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards - FINDING HOME - 2020
Top 15% of over 8100 Entries, Nicholl Fellowships - FINDING HOME - 2021
Finalist, Fred Rogers Productions Writing Fellowship - THE WILDWOOD SPRITES - 2024
Awarded Fellowship, Disability Belongs "Writing Children's Animation" - THE WILDWOOD SPRITES - 2024
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non-WGA
Female, Disabled, 40+
MOM GENES
Multi-cam
a la Roseanne
A no-nonsense, single Black mom, juggles raising her mischievous kids, taking care of her cantankerous, old-school father, and in her backyard cottage, guiding her tween nephew and his well-meaning but naïve, white, gay adoptive dad - who will need more help raising a Black son than he realizes.
EASTSIDE PRIDE!
Tween Multi-cam Sitcom
Disney's A.N.T. Farm or Bunk'd
When their beloved (but severely underfunded) inner-city afterschool program is at risk of shutting down, director Dee-Dee must pull together her rag-tag crew of tweens in order to win the grant that will save their special club.
THE WILDWOOD SPRITES
Preschool Animated
Netflix's Spirit Rangers or Disney's Doc McStuffins Larch and his friends face special challenges every day at Sprite School and in the process, learn about friendship, cooperation, and how to protect and care for the forest ecosystem.
BIPOC-centric, Children's, Animation
Female, Disabled, 40+
unrepped