EXCLUSIVE: UCP, a division of Common Studio Group, has prolonged an general growth cope with Tanya Saracho (Vida). She’s going to develop and produce unique tasks for broadcast, cable and streaming platforms below the settlement.
Saracho is at present in growth on a number of tasks together with the collection The Wild Wild, impressed by the lives of Annie Oakley, America’s most well-known sharpshooter, and the famend trick-rider Señorita Rosalie, who have been each stars of the famed Buffalo Invoice’s Wild West Present.
She’s going to function co-creator and govt producer of the challenge together with Jenniffer Gomez (Vida, Silk), with Jamie Babbit (Solely Murders within the Constructing, A League of Their Personal) connected to direct and govt produce.
“It’s a pleasure and honor working with Tanya and her firm, Ojalá. Their artistic brilliance and entrepreneurial strategy to producing and writing is so uncommon, and we’re thrilled to proceed our partnership,” stated Beatrice Springborn, President, UCP and Common Worldwide Studios, in a press release to Deadline.
“I’m grateful to proceed my relationship with UCP and have the ability to preserve crafting the tales that matter most to me – brown, queer narratives that are nonetheless lacking from the panorama and are so necessary to inform, and which UCP has confirmed a dedication to nurturing,” shared Saracho.
Saracho is a playwright and TV author who most just lately served as creator, showrunner and govt producer of the critically acclaimed collection Vida on Starz. The present featured all Latine writers and administrators, together with Saracho, who made her TV directorial debut. Vida gained the GLAAD Media Award for Excellent Comedy Sequence and was additionally honored by the Nationwide Hispanic Media Coalition with the 2019 Impression Award. Moreover, the collection gained the Viewers Award on the 2018 SXSW Movie Competition and made its Season 2 premiere as an Official Choice of the 2019 Tribeca Movie Competition.
She was the recipient of the Norman Lear Writers Award on the Imagen Awards in 2021 and was honored by the LGBTQ California Legislative Caucus as their 2020 Delight Month Honoree. She acquired the Rising Star Award on the Outfest Legacy Awards and was awarded the New Voice Award by Closing Draft.
Saracho co-founded the Untitled Latinx Challenge, whose mission is to extend Latine illustration in tv by content material created by Latine writers, together with co-founding the Writers Entry Help Workers Coaching Program to assist enhance illustration and alternatives for underrepresented communities. As well as, Saracho launched the Ojalá Ignition Lab in 2021, aimed to nurture, amplify and empower intersectional Latine voices.
She continues to be a part of UCP’s roster of general offers that embrace Nick Antosca, Sam Esmail, Selwyn Hinds, Seth MacFarlane and extra. She is represented by UTA, Writ Massive and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.
