Thanks to the gracious invitation from my Screenwriting Research Network colleague Paolo Russo – and a grant he was able to procure (and in the before-Covid time) I was able to spend a week at Oxford Brookes University working with the screenwriting masters students in Paolo’s course. At the culmination of the week, I gave … Continue reading "49 Speaking Up In The Writer’s Room from There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV [Video]"

It was a pleasure sitting down in front of some microphones with Lucas Cuny who now teaches Film, TV, and media full time at San Bernardino Valley College. He also hosts this podcast interviewing people from those areas and he invited me to be the first guest of his second season.  We had the chance … Continue reading From Classroom To Writer’s Room with Dr. Rosanne Welch on In The Can w/Lucas Cuny [Audio]

Transcript: Of course, she has tons of acerbic wit. That’s her thing and in many ways, this is a Shakespearean tragedy, as all her poems are. So I think all of that speaks to her as the major writer behind this version of the film. The other guys came in, they did some stuff but … Continue reading 10 Dorothy Parker’s Voice from “Female Creatives A Star Is Born” [Video]

In researching and writing my book on Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi and the unification of Italy (A Man Of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based On The Life Of Giuseppe Garibaldi)  I re-discovered the first American female war correspondent – Margaret Fuller — who I had first met in a college course on the Transcendentalists. … Continue reading 15 Fuller, History, and Back to America from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]

Watch the entire presentation – Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast | Episode # 29 here Transcript: For instance, Bridgerton came out of the blue and took everybody by surprise and it was like “Oh my god, Bridgerton. Oh my god, did you see Bridgerton?” and everybody’s talking about it, etc etc. I … Continue reading 22 Bridgerton from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]

Thanks to the gracious invitation from my Screenwriting Research Network colleague Paolo Russo – and a grant he was able to procure (and in the before-Covid time) I was able to spend a week at Oxford Brookes University working with the screenwriting masters students in Paolo’s course. At the culmination of the week, I gave … Continue reading 48 Do Your Research and Speak Up There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV [Video]

Transcript: Okay. Here’s where I find Dorothy Parker’s female focus coming to us. It begins with this grandmother. A female character has the money to give her granddaughter what she needs to follow her dream. That’s a big deal. Thinking that a woman in that period — who is now some 50 years older than … Continue reading 09 Parker, Grandmothers, and Husbands from “Female Creatives A Star Is Born” [Video]

In researching and writing my book on Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi and the unification of Italy (A Man Of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based On The Life Of Giuseppe Garibaldi)  I re-discovered the first American female war correspondent – Margaret Fuller — who I had first met in a college course on the Transcendentalists. … Continue reading "14 Fuller, Women, and War from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video]"

Watch the entire presentation – Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast | Episode # 29 here Transcript: Host: Was it called the little things? Rosanne: Yeah it just came out on me on Netflix or HBO sorry. Host: Yeah HBO Max. Rosanne: Brand new so, again, you can’t keep up with 420 TV … Continue reading "21 You Can’t Keep Up With TV Shows from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]"

As we’ve all been advised, if you put something out on the internet folks will stumble over you and your work and offer you new opportunities. That happened last month when Melissa Banks, who co-hosts the Fake Geek Girls podcast found an essay I had written and recorded to my blog in 2015 (How the … Continue reading "All About The Almighty Johnsons with the Fake Geek Girls Podcast – Episode 165 [Audio]"