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Conversation with Author Soman Chainani: Creating a World
The Dramatists Guild of America in association with Harvardwood presented a conversation with author Soman Chainani livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 8 April at 3:30 p.m. PDT/ 5:30 p.m. CDT/ 6:30 p.m. EDT/ 11:30 p.m. BST.
When Soman Chainani's The School for Good and Evil, the first novel in a trilogy, came out, it spent five weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and thirteen weeks on the Indie Best Sellers List, and sold to Universal in its first week of release. Chainani is also a filmmaker whose work has been seen at more than 150 film festivals, winning more than 30 awards.
For this special Dramatists Guild Academy event, Chainani will talk with the audience about how one starts with the germ of an idea, how one then goes about elaborating it into a creative world that is strong enough to translate to several mediums, and how one can effectively market the creative idea in a way that reaches the largest possible audience. He will talk in particular about the problems of adaptation from one medium to another, and especially about adaptation from a novel or play into a film.
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