Writer Experience

Originally released as Ep 39.

Rodney Barnes is a Screenwriter and Producer who has written and produced The Boondocks, My Wife and Kids, Everybody Hates Chris, Those Who Can't, Marvel's Runaways, Starz' American Gods, Co-Executive Producer of Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga, and Comic Book Writer of Lion Forge's Quincredible.

David Jimenez-Katsman and Katrina Escudero are managers and producers at Sugar23, a newly formed management group founded in 2017 by Academy Award®-winning manager-producer Michael Sugar.

Howard Kazanjian is a film producer whose career spans 50 years. He has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, and worked on such classics as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Howard was also Vice President of Lucasfilm, Ltd., and is a published non-fiction author. He is known for producing some of the most commercially and critically successful films of all time and for coming up with central ideas on those films.

The new memoir about Howard’s life, HOWARD KAZANJIAN: A PRODUCER'S LIFE, written by J.W Rinzler, was just released on September 21st, and is in stores now!

https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Kazanjian-Producers-J-Rinzler/dp/1951836189#:~:text=Howard%20Kazanjian%3A%20A%20Producer's%20Life%20Hardcover%20%E2%80%93%20September%2014%2C%202021

Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iconis are screenwriting partners and the co-writers of Five Feet Apart, The Curse of La Llorona, and the new Netflix film, NIGHTBOOKS, a live action feature film based on the book of the same name. The movie version of All This Time is currently in development and Mikki and Tobias have many more projects that are in the works. Mikki and Tobias have been on the show together before, and Mikki had also been on the show with Rachael Lippincott, who worked with Mikki on writing the novels for Five Feet Apart and All This Time.

Mikki and Tobias' new film, NIGHTBOOKS, premiered on September 15th on Netflix.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81002270

https://twitter.com/mikkidaughtry

https://twitter.com/tobiasiaconis

Originally released as Ep 85.

Lauren S. Hissrich is the Creator, Executive Producer, and Showrunner of the Netflix original series The Witcher, based on the book series Andrzej Sapkowski, which was recently reported as being the most in-demand TV show in the world. Previously, Lauren has written scripts for TV including The West Wing and Justice, as well as written and produced shows such as Parenthood, Do No Harm, Private Practice, Daredevil, The Defenders, and The Umbrella Academy.

The Witcher S1 is out now on Netflix.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80189685

https://twitter.com/LHissrich

Daniel Joshua Rubin is a multimedia writer and founder of Story 27 in Evanston, Illinois, a writing studio that provides consulting and education to storytellers in all media. He has written for television (NBC, the WB); new media (The Motley Fool, National Lampoon); and theater (with plays produced at Steppenwolf in Chicago, off-Broadway in NYC, and on the West End of London). He has taught dramatic writing at Loyola University in Chicago, and at the University of California, San Diego. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he graduated with honors and a BS in Drama Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase.

27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park is in stores now!

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Principles-Story-Storytelling-Shakespeare/dp/1523507160

https://twitter.com/DanJoshuaRubin

Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and university tutor whose plays are regularly produced in the UK and abroad. He specializes in writing for youth and marginalized communities and also teaches, blogs, campaigns, fundraises and dramaturgs other writers, with a particular focus on young people’s projects in London’s East End. His plays include Protection, the hip-hop musical Locked In, and How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Sheffield Crucible, 2007), which won the Arts Council’s John Whiting Award, the first time in forty years that an unproduced script had won the award. In 2013, Fin joined Tamasha Theatre Company as co-Artistic Director. As well as writing plays, Fin also has many years of experience teaching playwriting. Whilst associate artist at Tamasha, he founded Schoolwrights, the UK’s first playwrights-in-schools training scheme. As artistic director, he has launched Tamasha Playwrights, a new agency of playwrights-for-hire, offering diverse role models for young people’s projects in inner-city schools. He writes as an occasional contributor to The Stage and The Guardian.

Fin recently cofounded a new podcast “Out of the Woods: New Plays from the Balkans” which you can download wherever you find your podcasts.

https://tamasha.org.uk/projects/out-of-the-woods-new-plays-from-the-balkans-podcast

https://twitter.com/finkennedy

Travis M. Andrews is an author and staff writer for the Washington Post's style section, where he covers internet, pop culture, and the ways we live now. Previously, he was an associate travel and culture editor for Southern Living and a contributing pop culture reporter for Mashable and The Week. He has also written for Time, Esquire, GQ, and the Atlantic, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he acquiesces to the every wish of his puppy Stevie Nix and misses his native New Orleans.

His new book, BECAUSE HE’S JEFF GOLDBLUM: THE MOVIES, MEMES, AND MEANING OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ENIGMATIC ACTOR released in May, 2021, and is in stores now!

https://www.amazon.com/Because-Hes-Jeff-Goldblum-Hollywoods/dp/1524746037

https://twitter.com/travismandrews

For our 150th episode, we compiled the best advice from episodes 126-149 into one "Secrets of Writing" episode, with insights from‬ industry professionals for Star Wars, HBO, Netflix, etc.

Vincent Lin is a filmmaker and founder of Valiant Pictures, a production company based in New York City. He recently placed as a top 50 semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and he’s a judge for the NYU Purple List. Valiant Pictures is actively developing content from short films to feature films to episodic to commercial advertising.