The Green Light

This week, we have a show full of WOMEN between our script, our writer, and our detours. We’re reading “I Love You, Too,” a short screenplay by Samantha Hines, our first writer whom we don’t technically know! Yay! “I Love You, Too” is about a girl named Allison who is on a road trip to… not where her mom thinks she’s going. Samantha reveals that she prefers writing dramas and is… Team Jacob?!

Detours: Primal (HBO Max); Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Angela Davis); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Hulu); Avatar: The Last Airbender AGAIN (Netflix)

Contact Samantha Hines: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

Welcome to our first BONUS episode! Our episode 7 writer, Michael Sparks, dropped so much anime knowledge in his interview that it needed its own mini episode. Get over those Monday blues and tune in now!

Contact Michael Sparks: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

This week, we’re reading a slightly futuristic, slightly sci-fi screenplay about a robot maid learning to be human by Michael Sparks. Michael talked to us about juggling ALL the roles on a film set, his Blade Runner theories, and so much about anime that we’re giving his schpiel a separate bonus episode, coming soon!

Detours: The King of Staten Island (Amazon); Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix-- the series, not the live action film!); Spirited Away (HBO Max-- one of the many anime films mentioned by Michael in the full version of the interview)

Contact Michael Sparks: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

This week, Ellie Baker is back on the pod with a very different script! Living History is a play about two time traveling journalists tasked with capturing famous battles with modern photography and the ethical struggle surrounding performative activism. Ellie updates us on her life since we last spoke (episode 1) and gives us her take on how photo quality affects our perception of history.

Detours: The Mandalorian (Disney +), The Dog Island (Wii), Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix), Dune (Frank Herbert)

Contact Ellie Baker: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

This week, our story is about two flight attendants trying to find fulfillment in their cyclical lives as told by Matthew Keith. Matthew talks about acting while writing, college during COVID, and why Marianne can’t just do a line of coke. We also state our support for Black Lives Matter and would like to list some resources below where you can find great work by Black content creators.

Detours: Thirteenth (Netflix), Cheer (Netflix), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix- the series, NOT the movie), Princess Mononoke (HBO Max)

Contact Matthew Keith: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

Fifty Greatest Movies by Black Directors

More Movies

Books to educate yourself

More Books

Justice in June - A google doc started by Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace for the purpose of providing a starting place for those trying to become better allies 

Link to Resources that include a list of places to donate all across the United States, in addition to other resources for protestors, mutual aid funds etc. 

This week’s play is a fresh take on what the afterlife might look like by Andy Rassler, Lauren’s high school theatre teacher! Two people, newly deceased, find themselves in the Shirley Gates Heavenly Thrift Shop where they must come to terms with their own deaths and buy some second-hand angel wings. Andy talks about worldbuilding, how COVID has changed teaching, and Shakespeare (her basset hound).

Detours: Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (YouTube/Amazon); People, Places & Things (Duncan Macmillan); Kiss a Squid (Andy Rassler)

Contact Andy Rassler: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

This week, we read a super heartwarming screenplay with a comedic kick by Brennan Colucci: Dear Julius Caesar, I Like My Coffee. A young woman named Emily writes letters to famous figures whom she knows better than we think. Brennan is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, and he talks about his former experience as a DJ for a student station and his un-baguette-able profile picture trend.

Detours: Barry (HBO), Too Hot to Handle (Netflix), 102 Dalmatians (Disney+)

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

Jacob Wishnek: @jacobwishnek

For episode two, we’re reading Bay of Legion, a short comedic play by our friend and housemate Blake Benson about that moderately obscure Bible story where Jesus drives a demon out of a boy and into a bunch of pigs. Blake moved out to LA after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill and he hopes to be a writer for children’s animation. We talk to him about the writer's process, his opinion on auteurs, and the world of online dating.

Detours: Tiger King (Netflix), Onward (Disney+), The Art of Asking (Amanda Palmer), Funny Face (Amazon/Youtube)

Blake Benson contact info: [email protected]

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

Jacob Wishnek: @jacobwishnek

Welcome one and all to the very first episode of The Green Light Podcast! We do staged readings for your ears with a little bit of banter sprinkled in before and after. Our very first script is No Homo Zombro, written by Ellie Baker. Ellie is a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, a dear friend, and a great interviewee. In this episode, we talk to Ellie about her early start as a writer, using comedy as a tool in action lines, and why Jackson never became a WWE wrestler. 

DETOURS: The Good Place (Netflix, Hulu), Crashing (Netflix), Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (Netflix) 

Ellie Baker contact info: [email protected] 

Writing and music submissions: [email protected]

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@tgl_pod

Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry

Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c

Jacob Wishnek: @jacobwishnek

*Quick note: We recorded this one a few weeks ago, so it may not be completely up to date, but it sure is a heck of a lot of fun.*