Adam Lujan
Adam Lujan is a queer, LA-based TV writer. He grew up the son of U.S. Air Force vets in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Though known for its picturesque outdoorsy activities, Colorado was wasted on an asthmatic, indoor kid like Adam. Instead of hiking the Rockies, he ignited his imagination through magical double features of The Wizard of Oz and Snow White. He fell in love with television by laughing with I Love Lucy, speed-talking with the Gilmore Girls, and traversing space and time with Doctor Who.
When Dorothy and Snow White are your first friends, of course, you turn out to be a little over the rainbow. Growing up openly queer in conservative suburbia was… Not ideal. But, art, once again, was his salvation. Through his storytelling, he could imagine a world with queer people at the center. And, being half-Mexican, he could explore his multi-layered identity and heritage in his characters. He could tell stories with humor and heart. Blending genre elements, he could create the heroes and epic stories he desperately needed as a kid. Stories where queer characters aren’t tragic, or sidekicks, or struggling with their identity – instead, where they’re living messy, funny lives and being their own heroes.
Today, he strives to do all that, and more, by writing for television – and, hopefully, making TV gayer.
When he’s not writing or binge-rewatching his favorite shows, Adam enjoys long walks, long drives, and long loaves of bread. His veins are more full of coffee than blood, but he’ll never say no to a nap. And while his sedentary lifestyle would fit right into the feline kingdom, he is in fact allergic to cats – the animals and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Adam earned his BA in Film Production at the University of Denver in 2015. And in 2018, he got his MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His pilot Fernando won the David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Fellowship at the 2019 HUMANITAS Prize Awards, and the project is now in development with MRK Productions and Roadside Attractions.
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