Jill Golick has more than 40 years experience as a television writer, story editor and creative producer, working on such series as Sesame Street and Sesame Park, Instant Star, Beet Party, Kratts Creatures, Metropia, Connor Undercover and Annedroids. Golick is the executive producer of the multi-award winning documentary, Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Suriviving the Plot.
Golick’s career in interactive narrative began in the 1980s when she created, designed and produced 11 pieces of educational, entertainment and game software for the first home computers. One of these, Word Bird, was called “a truly superb example of educational software” by Creative Computing Magazine and won a Parents Choice Award.
More recently, Jill has created, written and produced four original, cutting-edge, multiplatform series, including the ground-breaking multi-platform interactive narrative, boymeetsgrrl and Crushing It, a live comedy soap opera that played out on Twitter.
Her most recent interactive project is the award-winning detective series Ruby Skye P.I. Including ground-breaking interactivity, world-building websites and some cool built-in marketing intiatives, the series has won dozens awards, praise from teachers and parents and a world-wide audience. Ruby Skye P.I.’s third season, The Maltese Puppy, was commissioned by CBC and is available exclusively in Canada on CBC.ca/kids.
Golick’s work has won two Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards, a Canadian Screen Award, a Banff Rockie Award and a Best Writing Award from L.A. WebFest along with awards from the Youth Media Alliance, IAWTV, the San Fransisco WebFest, Vancouver WebFest and others.
Golick taught screenwriting at York University and has led workshops and given speeches throughout North America and in Europe. During the COVID lockdowns, she led weekly online classes for hundreds of isolated writers and published the Pandemic Pilot Project, a step by step guide to writing your pilot script which resulted to dozens of new pilots being written. She participates in Webseries Canada’s National Coaching Program and offers her coaching and story editing services independently.
She is a founding member of the Webseries Canada, the former President of the Writers Guild of Canada and the former executive director of Women in View. She currently serves on the board of directors of Amherst Writers and Artists and is a trained AWA facilitator.