Jill Golick (born 1956 in

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) is a

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screenwriter, story editor, digital creator and

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ger.

Education

Golick attended Brown University in

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, and is a graduate of the

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. She lives and works in

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Career

Golick writes primarily for convergent or cross-platform media. 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. The highlight of Golick's career was writing a couple of episodes of '' Wizadora''.

New media steps

In the wake of the 2007–2008

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strike, Golick became one of the first Canadian screenwriters to experiment in online storytelling. Her first effort, boymeetsgrrl, told the tale of a dating couple, Simon Beals and Ali Barret. Simon and Ali's romance was explored through

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wall messages and status updates,

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tweets, blog entries and

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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 Facebook 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 boymeetgrrl! is that people aren’t upset at sneaky underhanded sales tactics," Golick wrote on a now deleted blogpost for Story2.OH. "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 Story2.OH, including the award winning digital detective series for tweens, Ruby Skye PI (Web Series). Golick maintains a

, ''Running With My Eyes Closed'', on television writing and is currently the president of the Writers Guild of Canada. She teaches television writing and transmedia at

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in Toronto, Ontario.

Selected TVography

* '' The Smoggies'' * ''Chicken Minute'' * ''Eric's World'' * ''

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'' * ''Kratt's Creatures'' * '' Wimzie's House'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * '' Blue Murder'' * '' Metropia'' * ''

Instant Star ''Instant Star'' is a Canadian musical comedy-drama television series which aired from 15 September 2004 to 26 June 2008. The series starred Alexz Johnson as teenage singing competition winner Jude Harrison. The show chronicles Harrison's experi ...

'' * ''

Rotten Ralph ''Rotten Ralph'' is a series of children's picture books written by Jack Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel. About twenty ''Rotten Ralph'' books have been published from 1976 to 2011. ''Rotten Ralph'' is also the first book in the series, ...

'' * '' Noddy'' * '' Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' * ''

The Busy World of Richard Scarry ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry'' is an animated children's television series, produced by CINAR Animation and France Animation in association with Paramount Television, which aired from 1994 to 1997, first on Showtime, later on Nickelodeo ...

'' * '' Foreign Affairs'' * ''

'' * ''

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References

External links

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Running With My Eyes Closed
Golick's blog
Story2Oh
Golick's online storytelling site {{DEFAULTSORT:Golick, Jill 1956 births Living people Anglophone Quebec people Canadian bloggers Canadian soap opera writers Women soap opera writers Writers from Montreal Canadian women screenwriters Canadian television writers Canadian Film Centre alumni 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women bloggers Canadian women television writers