As the current leader of the Writers Guild of America East prepares to step aside, two writers are throwing their hats in the ring to take her place.

Fat Albert: The Movie writer Charles Kipps and Oz creator Tom Fontana are both running for president of the union, the WGA East announced on Monday. After two years in the top role and two previous years serving as vice president, incumbent Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who wrote on The Endgame and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , is stepping aside.

Kipps, an instructor at New York’s School of Visual Arts who has previously written on shows like Little Bill and Law & Order: Criminal Intent , is running on a platform of serving the “overlooked or unproven members” of the WGA East, the emerging writers and senior writers. He propose

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