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Young Storytellers Launches Fund Honoring TV Producer Jamie Tarses
Young Storytellers has launched a fund honoring Jamie Tarses, the late television executive and producer.
The Los Angeles nonprofit will use the fund to support arts programs in L.A. public schools.
Its programs pair students with volunteer mentors to help them write original scripts, which professional actors perform on stage.
Tarses helped develop hit shows including Friends and Frasier after joining NBC in 1987.
She later became president of ABC Entertainment in 1996, the first woman to lead a network entertainment division, and was a founding board member of Young Storytellers.
She died in 2021 after suffering a stroke and a coma.
The fund will be celebrated at the group’s annual event on Oct.
29 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
Young Storytellers has established a fund honoring late television producer Jamie Tarses.
The fund will support the nonprofit’s arts programs in Los Angeles public schools.
The programs pair volunteer mentors with students to write original scripts for professional actors to perform.
Tarses was a founding board member of Young Storytellers and joined in 2003.
The fund will be celebrated at the organization’s annual event on Oct. 29.
- Who
- Young Storytellers, a Los Angeles nonprofit, established the fund in honor of Jamie Tarses, a television executive and producer.
- What
- The Jamie Tarses Fund will support the nonprofit’s programs in Los Angeles public schools.
- When
- The fund was announced in an article published Oct. 26, 2026. It is to be celebrated on Oct. 29.
- Where
- The programs operate in Los Angeles public schools. The fund will be celebrated at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
- Why
- The fund honors Tarses and supports programs that help students write original scripts.
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Tarses joined Young Storytellers as a founding board member when it became an independent nonprofit.
Tarses died after suffering from a stroke and a coma.
TheWrap reported that Young Storytellers had established the Jamie Tarses Fund.
The fund is to be celebrated at Young Storytellers’ annual event, The Biggest Show, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
- Fund name
- Jamie Tarses Fund
- Organization
- Young Storytellers
- Program location
- Los Angeles public schools
- Board role
- Tarses joined as a founding board member in 2003
- Celebration
- Oct. 29 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre
What people are saying
Jamie understood that the most powerful thing you can tell a young person is that their ideas deserve to be taken seriously
When we were trying to come up with ways to honor her memory, Young Storytellers was the obvious choice