Joey Hartstone, Screenwriter-Novelist-Episode #302

Joey Hartstone, Screenwriter-Novelist-Episode #302

“I’m looking at this script, LBJ, as my whole career rests on the outcome of this, whether or not it becomes a movie. And Bryan Cranston is lurking in the shadows making what becomes a Tony-winning play. And we’re just thinking, he’s killing...
Rosanna Staffa, Playwright-Author-Episode #290

Rosanna Staffa, Playwright-Author-Episode #290

Rosanna Staffa is an Italian-born playwright and author.  Her debut novel, The War Ends At Four, is a beautifully rendered tale about an Italian acupuncturist in Minneapolis who returns home to Milan and rediscovers all that she left behind, who she is, and what her...
Greg Weisman, Writer-Producer-Episode #271

Greg Weisman, Writer-Producer-Episode #271

“But I think the trick to it is that you’ve got to write every day, and you’ve got to be disciplined about it. You can’t skip a day because I’m without a doubt prone to procrastination, as indicated by my ten years in between my first and...
Monte Schulz, Novelist-Songwriter-Singer-Episode #257

Monte Schulz, Novelist-Songwriter-Singer-Episode #257

 The novelist Monte Schulz released his first novel, Down by the River, in 1990. He then spent more than twelve years writing the Jazz Age-based novel, Crossing Eden, for his father, the late, extraordinarily influential cartoonist, the creator of Peanuts, Charles M....
Shannon Bradley-Colleary, Novelist and Screenwriter-Episode #182

Shannon Bradley-Colleary, Novelist and Screenwriter-Episode #182

Shannon Bradley-Colleary is a novelist and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for the film To The Stars, which screened in the U.S. Dramatic Features category at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Kim Yutani, the festival’s Director of Programming said: “To The...