APPEARANCES
Dec 2024
"The rise of film adaptations: what led to the wicked success of Wicked, Part I"
Feb 2024 | Boston, MA
Conversation Host with author David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager
Mar 2023 | Cambridge, MA
"About Tootsie"
Mar 2019 | Cambridge, MA
"About A Fish Called Wanda"
Sept 2019 | Porto, Portugal
"Empathy and the Screenplay: Will short-form and changing viewing modalities weaken how screen stories build empathy?"
Sept 2018 | Milan, Italy
“Stretching the TV Limited Series Too Far: The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies.”
Mar 2018 | Toronto, Canada
Panelist, “Screenwriters, Marginality, and Authorship in the Cinema”
Sept 2016 | London, England
“What’s Opera Got to Do With It? What screenwriters can learn from the opera libretto.”
Aug 2013 | Madison, Wisconsin
“Adapting the voice of literary fiction to the voice of a screenplay.”
Sept 2011 | Brussels, Belgium
“Imitation and Adaptation: A Pedagogy.”
University of Missouri
Oct 2007 | St. Louis, MO
“Inspiration, Imitation, Forgery: The Role of Originality in the Arts.”
Travel Dynamics International
Nov 2007 | New York, NY
“Many Hats: Teaching Creative Writing on Educational Tours.”
U.S. Navy Tech. Ops.
Sept 2006 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA
“Failure of Imagination: How a Writer Breaks out of the Box When Creating Characters.”