RespectAbility Entertainment Professionals Lab 2024
Jane Cripe
A long time ago (1996) in a galaxy far, far away (Rochester, NY), Jane Cripe was born to parents who would correctly divorce soon after. She ambitiously went on to become diagnosed with mental illnesses, eating disorders, and pansexuality.
Shortly after her 15th birthday, Cripe’s father died unexpectedly while she was eating a frozen cheese pizza for breakfast. Unsure how to successfully grieve, she put on The Simpsons and finished her pizza. It was the episode where Homer moves in with two gay men and Marge wins him back with a cameo from Weird Al. It was also the episode that made Cripe, in the midst of a crisis, realize she wanted to be a television writer.
Thanks to her above-average grades and below-average social life, Cripe earned a scholarship to attend NYU, where she earned her BFA in Dramatic Writing with a concentration in television. A titan of the New York theater scene, Cripe wrote and directed an original play for Bad Theater Festival 2016 and wrote and performed an original one-woman show for Solocom 2015.
After graduating, Cripe relocated to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of sitting in a writers’ room and arguing over where to order lunch. She held onto that dream while working for the entertainment industry in other fulfilling ways, such as putting The Fast and the Furious on Peacock, then taking it off, then putting it back on again, over and over and over with each licensing window. Cripe maintained her creative sanity by writing comedy pieces for publications such as The Hard Times, Funny or Die, and Above Average.
In 2022, Cripe wrote and produced her first short film, All Appetite, which was nominated for the Best Writer award at the Alternative Film Festival 2023 and won the Best Comedy award at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival 2023.
In 2024, Cripe was accepted into the RespectAbility Entertainment Lab that soon launched her career and helped her achieve great success writing scripts to save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy…
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After an extensive search and interview process, 5 individuals were invited to participate in an intensive session for disabled writers interested in writing for adult animation, taking place May 13-16, with additional virtual sessions taking place in partnership with the virtual cohort, May – September 2024. Participants include people with a variety of disabilities ranging in age from the 20s through the 40s. This intensive elevates disabled creatives, focusing on building community, networking, and career advancement through a variety of speakers and a pitching workshop. This intensive is sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery.
