{"id":2033100,"date":"2025-09-19T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2033100"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:16:00","slug":"tom-fontana-elected-president-of-the-writers-guild-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-fontana-elected-president-of-the-writers-guild-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Fontana Elected President of the Writers Guild East"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Writers Guild of America East has found its next leader.<\/p>\n

Veteran television creator and showrunner Tom Fontana<\/a> was elected to be the East Coast writers union\u2019s next president on Thursday after running on a platform that emphasized meat-and-potato wage and benefits issues in addition to the importance of defending free speech. Fontana<\/a>\u2019s two-year term will start on Friday as current leader Lisa Takeuchi Cullen<\/a> steps down.<\/p>\n

Fontana will serve alongside Sasha Stewart<\/a> and Michael Rauch<\/a>, who both ran unopposed for the secretary-treasurer and the vice president of the film, television and streaming sector positions, respectively. Stewart<\/a> has written on the limited FX\/Hulu series Dying for Sex<\/a> and the Netflix<\/a> docuseries Amend: The Fight for America<\/a>, while Rauch has written and produced shows like Fox\u2019s Monarch<\/a> and CBS\u2019 Instinct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The six open seats on the union\u2019s council dedicated to film, television and streaming were filled by Nicole Conlan<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Writers Guild of America East has found its next leader. Veteran television creator and showrunner Tom Fontana was elected to be the East Coast writers union\u2019s next president on Thursday after running on a platform that emphasized meat-and-potato wage and benefits issues in addition to the importance of defending free speech. Fontana\u2019s two-year term […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2033101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2033100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tom-Fontana-Elected-President-of-the-Writers-Guild-East.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}