Call him the anti-paperboy.
Steve Vitolo first came from Boston to Los Angeles as another writer with a dream, starting as an assistant when he began to notice a disturbing trend on set. “On this one show, we kept printing a revised script every single night for 100-plus people, 50 pages. So every single night, it was literally 5,000 sheets of paper that would then be obsolete by the next day,” he recalls, as he was tasked with the script delivery.
That was more than a decade ago now, with each new line of dialogue or director’s note resulting in massive paper waste — and others around him also waking up to the problem, without much of a solution. Which led Vitolo, who would go on to write for shows including Black-ish and Hot in Cleveland, to ask, “Why are we writing scripts digitally and then printing
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