The Green Light

This week, we’re reading an excerpt from MVP, a feature film by Sergio Yañez and Tomás Del Real! We’re super excited to have another super talented writer/musician, and Tomás’s music is featured in our transitions! MVP is about four people who only know each other through a VR game called Gunslingers that they play together. Something mysterious and tragic occurs that takes them on a dangerous journey through both the real and VR worlds. Sergio and Tomás talk about their collaborative process, waffles, and Sergio’s new baby (who is also Tomás’s new niece)!

Detours: Project Power (Netflix), Ultimate Tag (Hulu)

Contact Sergio Yañez: [email protected]

Instagram: @sergioatthemovies and @tomas.delreal

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This week, we’re reading “A Stupid, Broken Leg,” a short play set in an emergency room. A father tries to defend himself against accusations of abuse after his son breaks his leg. Nolan Nightingale, our writer of the week, is pursuing his MFA in creative writing at Emerson College starting this fall and has had several of his works produced. He talks about his Road to the Pulitzer, brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts, and Meowth.

Detours: Black is King (Disney+), The Last Dance (Netflix), Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)

Contact Nolan Nightingale: [email protected]

Check out Nolan’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVsGsoZol8EzV2lg_lVSShg

Read Nolan's work on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/44643/nolan-nightingale

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A short farewell to the place our podcast called home for 14 episodes. (P.S. Lauren wanted to call this episode “Coming out of the Closet” and she wanted that on the record.)

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This week, we’re reading a VERY new work from an award-winning playwright, Judy Upton! Judy has had a number of both plays and screenplays produced by companies like the Royal Court, National Theatre, and Hampstead Theatre. She also enjoys eating cucumber sandwiches at picnics. Her play, Ants at a Picnic, is set in May 2020 and involves two quarantined people on either side of the “should we keep staying home even when it seems like nobody else is” debate.

Detours: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi), 100 Humans (Netflix)

Contact Judy Upton: [email protected]

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Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c (Twitter/Instagram)

This week, we’re reading an excerpt from a pilot: Re-Created by Brian Pavone! He’s our favorite guest ever because he listens to the show! Brian is a graduate of Fordham University from Long Island who loves McDonald’s fries and occasionally jaywalks. Re-Created is about a depressed father/husband seeking to improve his happiness and relationships with his wife and son… no matter what the cost.

Detours: Palm Springs (Hulu), Clybourne Park (Bruce Norris)

Contact Brian Pavone: [email protected]

Full Re-Created script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pLLisLj95dGbKDVQBufgXHguHUxuJsxD/view?usp=sharing

Brian’s review of Palm Springs: https://celebritypage.com/palm-springs-a-delight-well-suited-for-these-times

Brian’s review of The Rental: https://celebritypage.com/movie-review-the-rental-thrills-a-little-chills-a-lot

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry (Twitter/Instagram)

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c (Twitter/Instagram)

This week, we’re reading Jasmine by Ankit Dhame, a multi-faceted writer/photographer/musician from Mumbai, India, currently attending Prague Film School. Jasmine is the story of a young couple from two different financial backgrounds waiting to see the results of a pregnancy test. Ankit talks about his background, his writing process, and who would play him in a movie about his life. Lauren repeatedly says, “microphone,” when she means to say, “microscope.”

Detours: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Book Two: Earth, Netflix), The Little Prince (Netflix)

Contact Ankit Dhame: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry (Twitter/Instagram)

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c (Twitter/Instagram)

This week, we’re reading Irishman by Jack Ryan Yuran. Thankfully, this one is 10 minutes, not 3 and a half hours. Irishman dives into the complex tension between Irish Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. A young man named Sean loses both his parents in the Bloody Sunday Massacre and joins the IRA only to find that it may be more than his morality can handle. Jack talks about his airplane flying strategy, his Irish heritage, and his favorite football team! (GO STEELERS!)

Detours: The Lovebirds (Netflix), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Disney+)

Honorable Mention: Andrew Scott (just as a person)

Contact Jack Ryan Yuran: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry (Twitter/Instagram)

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c (Twitter/Instagram)

This week, we’re reading a satirical dark comedy about a harmfully moderate news station: The News Cycle by Ben Howard. A news anchor is doing her first broadcast and is baffled by the station’s decisions to give platforms to awful people in an effort to “see both sides of every story.” Ben discusses the nature of satire, the state of Arkansas, and the ethics of peeing in a pool.

Detours: Hamilton (Disney+); Westworld (HBO MAX)

The Animal in You Quiz

Contact Ben Howard: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

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Our very first bonus episode for our $5 tier and above on Patreon: Green Lit!

For our first episode, we had to do the most ambitious crossover of all time: That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana.

This episode was an hour long event but is on Disney+ as three separate episodes, one for each show featured:

That's So Raven: Checkin' Out (Season 4)

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody: That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana (Season 2)

Hannah Montana: On the Road Again (Season 1)

For our drink, we mixed Jim Beam apple whiskey with Kroger brand lemon-lime soda. Take a sip and hang out with us, and subscribe to our Patreon at the $5 level or higher for more Green Lit!

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

This week, we’re reading our first excerpt from a longer work: The New Couch by Ryan DeAngelis. A couple moves into a new apartment together in New York and deals with the anxieties of taking this next huge relationship step while healing each other. Ryan talks about theatre after COVID, their “medium agnostic” style, and the Lucky Charms eating method they and Lauren share.

Detours: A Sitch in Time (Disney+, Kim Possible season 2, episodes “Past,” “Present,” and “Future”); The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), Irresistible (Amazon)

Contact Ryan DeAngelis: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

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