WRITING ACROSS MEDIUMS (Live-captioned)

Playwrights' Center presented WRITING ACROSS MEDIUMS livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 11 August 2020 at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 6 p.m. MDT (Denver, UTC -6) / 7 p.m. CDT (Minneapolis, UTC -5) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

How do writers move from one medium to another, especially when finding inspiration proves challenging? Join us for a discussion with Sarah Gubbins (Plays: The Kid Thing, In Loco Parentis, Amazon’s I Heart Dick, Film: Shirley), Jen Silverman (Plays: Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, The Moors, Novel: “The Island Dwellers”), and Mfoniso Udofia (Plays: Sojourners, runboyrun, Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, Apple TV’s little america) and hear about their exciting experiences moving between playwriting, screenwriting, television writing, and novels.

Artists/Speakers:
Jeremy B. Cohen, producing artistic director, The Playwrights’ Center (facilitator)
Sarah Gubbins, playwright, television and screenwriter, producer
Jen Silverman, playwright, television and screenwriter and novelist/author
Mfoniso Udofia, playwright, television and screenwriter

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