Submitted PhotoLindsay Calhoon Bring is a writer on 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,' the popular Netflix series. She graduated in 2008 from Valdosta State University Theatre & Dance.

VALDOSTA – Lindsay Calhoon Bring owes a lot to TV shows.

“As a kid, I learned life lessons from watching characters on TV,” she said with a laugh.

Now, she writes for the popular Netflix series, “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” released several weeks ago on the streaming service. 

The horror show based on the long-running Archie-related comic “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” was picked up for a second run scheduled to air April 5, according to recent reports.

Landing a job on a hit series isn’t magic, it has taken a lot of hard work for Bring, a Valdosta State University Theatre & Dance graduate.

She grew up in Savannah and selected VSU for its strong theatre program, Bring said. 

She acted in VSU Theatre productions such as “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” and “The Commedia Project” as Lindsay Calhoon. She met her future husband, John Bring, while attending VSU.

He was already in Los Angeles, when she graduated VSU in 2008. She joined him there, she said.

“The first couple of years were hard,” Lindsay Calhoon Bring said in a recent phone interview. 

She found production assistant jobs. She worked on the original run of the “24” television series. She worked on “Two and a Half Men.” 

She took an assistant job with Emily Fox, a writer and producer. 

She had taken the VSU Theatre playwriting class from Jacque Wheeler. Bring looked more to writing as a career path. She worked as a writers assistant on the television shows “Melissa and Joey” and “Frequency.”

She was selected for a Warner Brothers writing workshop. 

“I wanted to write comedy,” Bring said. “I thought of myself as a comedian. A comedy writer.”

She ran a student comedy improv troupe as a student at VSU. 

So, she didn’t see herself as a drama writer but that’s where she’s landed.

But with a twist.

“There’s value in being a funny person in a drama,” she said. 

Dramas need comic moments to lighten solemn moods. Some shows mix comedy, drama and more.

She said she looked back to her favorite television show for inspiration. 

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” mixed drama, comedy and horror.

Perfect inspiration for her current job on “Sabrina.” A show that seeks a similar balance but with more emphasis on the horror element.

Sabrina has been everything from an Archie-related humor comic and cartoon to a live-action sit-com in the 1990s and now a live-action horror series. Current comics provide almost every variation of Sabrina, as do Archie Comics which have inspired the hit teen-drama show “Riverdale.” 

“The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” is made by the same producers as “Riverdale.” Both shows are overseen by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. He is a playwright, screen writer and comic book writer.

His other TV credits include “Glee” and “Big Love.” His comic book credits include work at Marvel and on the Archie-related titles. He is chief creative officer at Archie Comics.

Calhoon said Aguirre-Sacasa is something of a Marvel himself. He is steeped in all of the Sabrina-Archie history and has innovative ways of looking at these characters that have been around for generations.

Lately, Calhoon has been working on the new episodes of “Sabrina.” She lives in Burbank, Calif., and regularly flies to Vancouver to work on the “Sabrina” set, she said.

“I love being on the set and going to Vancouver,” she said. “The thrill of traveling has not worn off for me.”

She and John Bring will be doing more traveling soon.

He writes scripts and has launched the podcast “Here’s Why It’s Great,” which is described as “where we take what you hate and tell you why it’s great.” 

His family still lives in South Georgia. The Brings plan to travel to Valdosta for Christmas.