Nick Rodriguez(VI)

Nick Rodriguez grew up as the youngest child in a very loud Puerto Rican family from Staten Island -- the Florida Man of NYC boroughs. Nick's mission is to make television more colorful for queer people of color, just like himself. That means telling stories about people who become their own heroes, despite what others want or expect from them. About people who don't fit in - and definitely in ways we can't predict. His work explores characters who find their inner strength and use it to help others.

Nick has been a staff writer on a show for DreamWorks Animation/Netflix. He has also written nearly twenty episodes of television for Disney, Nickelodeon, Netflix, and PBS. Nick is an alum of the FAME high school in NYC, and USC's School of Cinematic Arts screenwriting program -- where he co-created the university's longest-running scripted TV show. Nick has been a Walt Disney Television Writing Program Finalist and a Universal Animation Writers Program semi-finalist. His work has made it to the second round of the WB Writers' Workshop, the Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition, and the inaugural MACRO Episodic Lab.