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Debra Landwehr Engle
Season 2 Episode 18
Her fifth-grade teacher walked her to the principal’s office over a book report she’d drawn up like a newspaper front page. The issue turned out to b…
3 days, 7 hours ago
Miles Hubley, Tommy White and Scott Waugh
Season 2 Episode 17
The Runner screenplay was good enough to make the 2023 Black List. It was also, as its director puts it, unmakeable: a car chase at night, in the rai…
1 month ago
Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw
Season 2 Episode 16
Two seventeen-year-olds with mutual crushes egged one another into trying out for their college sketch groups. A few years later, their Yale graduati…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Jeff Wadlow, Aja Gabel & MJ Wesner
Season 2 Episode 15
A moment of snorkeling panic deep in a Tulum cenote became a joke between friends before it became the inspiration for a shark movie that made the 20…
2 months, 1 week ago
Rebecca Sonnenshine
Season 2 Episode 14
She was just five years old when she read the Little House on the Prairie books that made her want to tell stories. Today, she’s the screenwriter and…
3 months, 1 week ago
David J. Rosen
Season 2 Episode 13
After leaving the world of advertising for life as a writer, countless publishers passed on his novel before he finally heard the unexpected yes that…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jeremy Slater
Season 2 Episode 12
His 2015 Fantastic Four screenplay was rewritten by so many other writers that eventually just three words of his remained. Today he’s the sole scree…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Jeremy Robbins
Season 2 Episode 11
He wrote a screenplay his reps didn’t even know about. Five years later, his movie is on Netflix, starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton.
Screenwr…
5 months, 1 week ago
Chandler Levack
Season 2 Episode 10
Canadian writer-director Chandler Levack sits down with Brian and Bailey for a deep dive into how and why she writes.
How did her music journalism exp…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Brian McElhaney & Nick Kocher (BriTANicK)
Season 2 Episode 9
Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher of BriTANicK fame sit down with Brian and Bailey for a deep dive into how and why they write.
How is their collaborati…
6 months, 1 week ago