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APPEARANCES

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"

Sept 2019 | Porto, Portugal

"Empathy and the Screenplay: Will short-form and changing viewing modalities weaken how screen stories build empathy?"  

The Brattle Theater "Elements of Cinema" Series

Mar 2019 | Cambridge, MA

"About A Fish Called Wanda" 

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.”

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