By Tess LennonDorn 03/13/16 Q&A with Monique Madrid Monique Madrid is a current contributor to Someecards, an interviewer for Splitsider Magazine, and a writer, host, and producer of a live comedy show, “2 Girls 1 Pup”. She is the former editor of Serial Optimist Magazine and has worked as a copywriter, sketch writer, and creative consultant. She has experience with script punchups and social media content. Monique has explored her skills as a comedic writer across many different platforms including both the live theatre community, and corporate work. Her ability to recognize her skills and apply them to different professional settings makes her resourceful and has made her a more wellrounded writer. She has found a way to pursue her tv writing goals while also taking the work that’s available and using it to her advantage. She has put herself in a position where she’s waiting for opportunity to strike and stacking the odds in her favor by living in L.A., while also actively creating her own work. She is writing for and hosting her own comedy show, and building her portfolio with the content she writes for Splitsider and Someecards. Monique conveyed the importance of both seeking opportunities, while also creating them for yourself. You currently write for Splitsider Magazine and Someecards. What are those jobs like? Yeah! So I do Someecards which is fun. It’s sort of a situation where you pitch every morning so it really gets your joke writing skills going. And there are days that I have more time to write than others so I don’t pitch as often as I would like. But yeah you pitch. They send you kind of a general assignment or ideas that they’re looking for, subjects that they’re looking for and you pitch your jokes and if they like them they take them. And then Splitsider, at this point I mostly just do interviews with them. I’m sure I could do more if I wanted to but I’m really enjoying doing the interviews cuz I think I’m good at them and I really get inspired talking to people as cheesy as that sounds. And then on top of that I’m