Our mailbox keeps overflowing with new tales of assistant-dom. Producer Megana Rao reads every one and sorts them for future episodes. She also forwards a handful to me. This one, from a writers room production assistant (WPA), felt like one that should be read in its entirety, so I got the author’s permission to publish […]
Assistants
Hollywood assistants have always been underpaid, but this is different
We asked listeners to write in with their experiences as assistants, focusing on the impact of low wages. What they told us was helpful, sobering and enraging.