Jill Golick

Jill Golick (born 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, story editor and blogger.

Golick was born in Montreal, Quebec. She attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. She lives and works in Toronto.

She writes primarily for television. Early in her career she worked on many Canadian children's programs. More recently, she has written dramas and comedies aimed at prime time. She has also written for three soap operas including the Canadian night time soap, Metropia, on which she served as Head Writer and Executive Story Editor.

New Media Steps

In the wake of the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Golick became one of the first Canadian screenwriters to experiment in online storytelling. Her first effort, Story2oh, told the tale of a dating couple, Simon Beals and Ali Barret. Simon and Ali's romance was explored through Facebook wall messages and status updates, Twitter tweets, blog entries and video blog segments.

Controversy erupted when Golick presented her findings to a Casecamp conference in 2008. Several people in the audience, upon realizing that they'd been "friended" by Golick's digital avatars, complained to Golick and had the profiles deleted. Afterward, Golick agreed that there seemed to be a disconnect between the marketers and the creative storytellers about what constituted a "proper use of the medium."

"One of the things that so interesting about this little flurry around Story2Oh! is that people aren’t upset at sneaky underhanded sales tactics," Golick wrote. "They’re not all upset that I was trying to sell them something. They’re angry because art infiltrated their lives. They got swept up into a story and didn’t realize till later that these were characters and not real people. The characters didn’t do anything to them, they weren’t evil or malicious. They just tried to be friendly, funny and entertaining."

Golick continues to develop new online projects through story2oh.

Golick maintains a blog, "Running With My Eyes Closed", on television writing and is currently the Vice President of The Writers Guild of Canada and the chair of the Canadian Screenwriting Awards

elected TVography

* "The Smoggies"
* Chicken Minute
* Eric's World
* Shining Time Station
* Kratt's Creatures
* Wimzie's House
* Mumfie
* Zoboomafoo
* Blue Murder (TV series)
* Metropia
* Instant Star

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0326490/ IMDB]
* [http://www.jillgolick.com/ Running With My Eyes Closed] , Golick's blog
* [http://www.story2oh.com/ Story2Oh] , Golick's online storytelling site
* [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/01/13/144110.php Story2Oh and the Web] , Article on Story2oh