CHESIRAE BARBANO

Chesirae has an Italian name with an Asian face because she was adopted from China when she was nine months old, making her the most expensive souvenir her parents have ever bought and she's an investment that just keeps taking since she decided she wanted to write for animation. She grew up in the sunny Bay Area, but after breaking two lab beakers on two separate occasions, she realized she wouldn't follow in her mother's footsteps of double majoring in two STEM degrees. Instead, she left the sun for the snow. She attended Emerson College in Boston where she majored in Media Production with a focus in writing for television and where she was almost run over by an ambulance, but hey, at least she would've had a ride to the hospital. When she wasn't writing an essay on Peggy Mcintosh, she was on student-run film sets and in writers' rooms, learning how to collaborate and prepare for an entry-level job in the entertainment industry. Her pride and joy during her college experience was being the head writer for the student-produced animated children's show BLUE BINS which won the EVVY 38 award for Outstanding Motion Graphics and was nominated for the EVVY 38 Outstanding Animation Program. She enjoys writing for comedy, fantasy, and animation. Animated Television was a form of comfort for Chesirae and was the first community she really felt at home with. Her goal in animation is to understand the production pipeline to create seamless and collaborative communication between the writers and the artists to create work that visually and narratively shows "Your existence is valid. You deserve to live and thrive."

 

She is currently a production assistant at Nickelodeon Animation in Burbank, CA. Script samples are available through the contact sheet.

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