994. The Play's the Thing

Actor/writer Marissa Alaniz discusses the love of the craft and passion for her subject matter that led her to write and produce her recently published play Elizabeth.

Lessons about bio-pics, lessons about pitching, lessons about hope. Writer/director Wanuri Kahiu (Rafiki, Washington Black) returns to the podcast to talk about all of it. Don't miss this one!

Actor/writer Karin delaPena Collison's first feature script Coming of Age won a Nicholl Fellowship. Here, she talks about what led up to it and what came next.

On the Page Podcast and Rock Solid Podcast listeners contribute their favorite dialogue-driven clips from movies!

Nadia Abass-Madden drew from her experience as a 911 operator to land a job on the Fox series 911. 49 episodes later she's back on the podcast to tell her tale.

Katrina Medoff, co-founder/executive director of the Moonshot Initiative, talks about the program's mission, events, film challenge and script accelerators - all aimed at getting emerging writers in the door.

Sylvia-Anne Parker is already a rockstar script supervisor, but over the years she's also been selected to the Sundance Episodic Lab, the Writers Lab and the Sony Creative Corridor. Recently, her BBC audio drama A Tale of Two Trumpets won an Imoson Award. Hear what she's learned as she continues on her path to screenwriting success.

Writer Jeremy Slater has built serious genre credentials across major IP, from creating Marvel's Moon Knight and developing Netflix's The Umbrella Academy to writing on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and the television adaptation of The Exorcist. Here he talks about his latest feature film, Mortal Kombat II, and his approach to adapting IP and making it his own.

Named a top 25 screenwriter to watch by the ISA, Irish screenwriter Conor Dowling has written for everything from kids animation to live-action sci. fi. Here he talks about the ongoing development of his feature projects and the lessons he's learning along the way.

Creating involved character bios and being ready for the script shifting at a moment's notice; LaNisa Renee Frederick talks about the acting-plus-improv process involved in the unconventional Amazon series, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat.