Showrunner School Part 2: The First Thing You Need To Become a Showrunner.

K.P. Anderson
The Haven
Published in
13 min readJan 20, 2022

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As I mentioned in Part 1: “What is a Showrunner”, everyone who winds up in the job takes their own path to get there. Some, like me come from the writing side of production. Others come in as directors, producers, studio and network executives and even personal mangers and agents have wound up holding the title. True to Hollywood, in production there is no one

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K.P. Anderson
The Haven

TV comedy writer/Showrunner, comedian and aspiring novelist.