Randy Astle

About Randy Astle

I\'m a writer and creator of children\'s television and and interactive media. With over a decade of experience writing scripts, show bibles, and interactive experiences for production companies everywhere from Boston to Bangalore, I\'m now actively searching for writing, production assistant, or other roles—freelance, temporary, or permanent—in the children’s media industry. Having developed many IPs—including writing the bible for the British preschool show “Pip Ahoy!” and pitching my own concepts to companies like Netflix, Nelvana, and CBBC—I’m now particularly interested in working on a show that is past the pitching stage and in production as a writer, PA, or other position. Having recently written for two years for an interactive toy robot, I’m also interested in toys, video games, podcasts, and other media, as well as new technology like AI. In addition to writing educational and entertainment content for kids from preschool through teens, I have deep knowledge of film production, production management, and postproduction, making me fit for other positions in children’s media or general film and television production, such as writing for adults or working with schedules, social media, or video assets. I’ve also researched and written a great deal of nonfiction for documentaries, film journalism (emphasizing animation, VR, AR, and other new media), and academic film history and criticism. In my writing about Mormonism and cinema I\'ve written for publishers like Praeger and Oxford University Press, as well as my own award-winning book \"Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952,\" with a sequel on the way. I’m fluent in Spanish as a second language and have written and translated kids’ scripts and other material in Spanish, with intermediate French and beginner Italian, German, and Portuguese. I’d love to connect! My email is r••••@randyastle.com, and here are some sites: Writing samples (I can share more of my professional work on request): https://randyastle.com/kids Instagram, where I mostly post visual art and adorable pictures of my dog:

Experience

1. Artificial Intelligence Trainer

   Outlier Ai

   Sep 2024 — Present

   I write prompts and evaluate responses for various AI models, improving answers and eliciting higher-quality reasoning and writing abilities for different tasks.

Education

• London Film School

  Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Film directing and production

  2003 — 2006

• Brigham Young University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Film production and screenwriting; minors in English and Business Administration

  1998 — 2002