In another example of my love for a good, long, alliterative title, I name this year’s Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) presentation:
“When Women Write What They Say, They Say So Much More: Powerful Actress-writer-producers Past, Present & Future”.
It covers writers like Emma Thompson, who adapted Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, in which she starred as Eleanor, and Gertrude Berg, creator, writer, and star of The Goldbergs, and then everyone from Tina Fey to Issa Rae, to Mindy Kaling to Lena Waithe. This presentation discusses the way women writing their own characters, dialogue, and worlds into existence impacts the audience, the industry, and the way women are seen in society.
