Jay Bushman

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Jay Bushman
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Notable works The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Website
www.jaybushman.com

Jay Bushman is an Emmy-award-winning transmedia writer and book author.

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Transmedia writing

Bushman was a writer and producer on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a digital adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, for which he won an Emmy in 2013 for "Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media – Original Interactive Program". [1] The transmedia elements of the piece included 35 Twitter feeds for individual characters. [2] The series ran from April 2012 to March 2013 [3] and won YouTube Streamy Awards and the IAWTV Award for Best Interactive/Social Media experience. [4]

The team followed the series' success with the release of Welcome to Sandition and Emma Approved , vlog series that also included Twitter accounts for individual characters.

In 2014, Bushman released #hamlet, a multiplatform web series. He was named one of "10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014" by Independent Magazine. [3]

Bushman worked at Fourth Wall Studios as a writer and producer, where he helped create the Emmy-nominated series Dirty Work [5] and wrote and created the show Airship Dracula. [6]

Bushman serves on the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors for Digital and Interactive Storytelling. [7]

Books

In 2021, Bushman released Novel Advice: Practical Wisdom for Your Favorite Literary Characters with Simon & Schuster, a book of advice for classic literature characters including Victor Frankenstein and Lady MacBeth.

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