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Patric Verrone To Receive WGA West’s Morgan Cox Award

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 11:05am PSTTags: Patric Verrone, WGA, WGA Awards

Los Angeles – Former Writers Guild of America, West President and Emmy and Writers Guild Award-winning writer Patric M. Verrone is set to receive the WGAW’s 2012 Morgan Cox Award in recognition of his exemplary service to the Guild. Verrone will be honored at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards’ West Coast ceremony to be held on Sunday, February 19, 2012, at the Hollywood Palladium.

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Writers Guild West Candidates For 2011 Officers And Board Of Directors Election

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday June 21, 2011 @ 12:51pm PDTTags: Christopher Keyser, Patric Verrone, WGA West, Writers Guild Of America

LOS ANGELES – The Writers Guild of America, West’s nominating committees have announced the initial list of candidates for the 2011 WGAW Officers and Board of Directors election.

The officer candidates are as follows: President – Patric M. Verrone, Christopher Keyser; Vice President – Howard A. Rodman, John Aboud; Secretary-Treasurer – David N. Weiss (inc.), Carl Gottlieb.

There are 17 candidates nominated to run for eight open seats on the WGAW’s Board of Directors as follows: Anthony Sparks, Dan Wilcox (inc.), Michael Oates Palmer, Thania St. John, Ari B. Rubin, Nelson Soler, Billy Ray (inc.), Linda Burstyn (inc.), Mark Alton Brown, David S. Goyer, Barbara E. Nance, Alfredo Barrios, Jr., John Brancato, Ian Deitchman (inc.), Nell Scovell, Jay Kogen, Carleton Eastlake (inc.).

Note to editors: WGAW internal rules require candidates to be announced in an order determined by lot; (inc.) denotes an incumbent candidate.

In addition to the candidates selected by the nominating committees, eligible members may also be nominated by petition. Members seeking nomination for the office of President, Vice President, or Secretary-Treasurer must obtain 50 member signatures in support of their petitions. Members seeking nomination for the Board of Directors must obtain 25 member signatures in support of their petitions. The deadline for submitting signed petitions to the WGAW is 12:00 p.m. (PDT) on Friday, July 22. Members may submit online nomination petitions by visiting the members-only section of the WGAW’s website at: www.wga.org.

The WGAW will host its annual Candidates Night town-hall forum, at which Guild members may meet and pose questions to their Officer and BOD candidates, on Wednesday, August 31, at WGAW headquarters in Los Angeles.

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WGAW: Comcast Aims “To Destroy Unions”

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 3:11pm PSTTags: Chip Johannessen, Comcast, Comcast Labor Relations, Comcast WGA Impass, Comcast WGA Union Organizing, Comcast-NBCU Merger, Labor Relations, Movies, Patric Verrone, Sid Sheinberg, TV, Universal, WGA, WGAW, WGAW Board of Directors

WGAW Board Members Chip Johannessen and Patric Verrone have issued a strongly worded message of support the Comcast writers wanting WGA representation:

To Our Fellow Members,

“If the Writers Guild didn’t exist, we’d have to invent it.” — Legendary Hollywood executive Sid Sheinberg said that back in 1988

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Verrone & Bateman Testify In Support Of Net Neutrality At U.S. Senate Hearing

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday April 24, 2008 @ 5:20am PDTTags: Actors, Guilds, Media, Patric Verrone, Ratings, SAG, Washington DC, WGA, Writers, Writers Strike

WGA West prez Patric Verrone and SAG board member Justine Bateman traveled to Washington DC and testified at a hearing by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Tuesday, describing the Internet as the only remaining open market for truly independent creators and … Read More »

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