Wednesday, November 16, 2011


Recently I signed with a literary agent. Yeah that's right, I'm fancy now. I have "people." They asked me to write up a bio. Usually I hate to write any type of self gloating propaganda but somehow I managed. It's for their internal use, but I figured I'd share with you lovely people some of the top secret insider info that will be circulating H-wood... all about ME!

Colleen Evanson grew up on an exotic island known for its accents - Long Island. In high school she was chosen to represent her school by performing an original monologue on the Broadways stages of Rent. She attended Ithaca College's Park School of Communications studying TV production where she was heavily involved in the student run television station creating/producing a mock entertainment news show by sophomore year. Her junior and senior year she produced an hour long documentary entitled Strongest Ever (about the strongest woman in the world). The trailer was chosen as Best of Student Work in 2006 and the 60 min version won audience awards at film festivals and sold to Electric Sky who aired it throughout Europe. Clips also aired on an E! Entertainment special about bodybuilding. While studying in LA she interned at The West Wing in producer Michael Hissrich's office and then the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip pilot with producer Mindy Kanaski, where she was later hired to run base camp/stalk Matthew Perry.


Realizing production life wasn’t the bee’s knees, she got an office job working assisting independent producer Matt Baer with feature development. When the strike hit she took a strike proof job at Blue Collar Productions, a DVD/Special Features production company run by former Dreamworks employee Mark Rowen. Within six months of assisting him she was producing TV spots for the DVD Campaigns for Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar 2, and Monsters vs Aliens. After 2.5 years she jumped back to TV assisting the lovely Paul Stupin and Holly Sorensen on ABC Family's Make It Or Break It where she is currently the writer's assistant, typin’ out notes like no other. Despite having more work experience in the drama world, her heart truly belongs to comedy. She was in an improv troupe in college, and has taken several classes through the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre including: Improv 101 and Sketch Writing 101. Other interests include: soccer, kung fu, not wearing heels, becoming a Jedi Knight, and befriending Betty White.


Can I stop talking in third person now? OK, great.


Do you have a sudden urge to staff me as a writer on your television show? I hope so.