The Greatest and Most Terrible Things about Writing for TV and Theatre, and How To, with Hannah Moscovitch
The Greatest and Most Terrible Things about Writing for TV and Theatre, and How To, with Hannah Moscovitch
Celebrating Women Playwrights: So Much Excellence, So Little Time Series
Join PGC’s Women Caucus for the third installment of this inspirational & informative conversation series, led by established Canadian women playwrights in celebration of International Women’s Day!
Hannah will tackle such topics as how switching between mediums teaches you about the writing process, the differences between the process of writing in these two mediums (with a view to preparing theatre writers for TV), the advantages and disadvantages of TV writing compared to theatre writing, and the advantages and disadvantages of theatre writing compared to TV writing.
Moderated by Marie Barlizo.
FREE & OPEN TO ALL!
About Hannah:
Hannah’s play, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, was recently onstage in New York City starring Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty. In television, Hannah was the Co-Creator, Executive Producer, and Head Writer of the limited series Little Bird alongside showrunner Jennifer Podemski. Little Bird garnered a landslide of awards and critical praise, winning thirteen Canadian Screen Awards including Best Drama Series. Hannah has worked as a writer and producer on all three seasons of AMC’s hit series Interview With The Vampire, which has been included on most Best TV of the Year Lists, such as Vanity Fair, Variety, TV Guide, Buzzfeed, HuffPost, Slate, Collider, Vulture, and IndieWire.
About Marie:
A Montreal-based Filipino-Chinese playwright, producer and dramaturg. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC) and first BIPOC to graduate from National Theatre School’s (NTS) Playwriting Program. Recipient of the 2022 Bernard Amyot Teaching Award at NTS and winner of the 2022 Jovette Marchessault award for Playwriting. Currently, she’s an instructor and Playwriting Mentor at NTS; a mentor at Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Program; artist-in residence at Boca del Lupo developing Pamilyia, artist-in-residence at RMTC developing The Warrior, artist-in-residence at Native Earth Performing Arts Theatre developing The Healing & artist-in-residence at Performance Laboratory, Inc (Philippines). Select credits: Lucky excerpt published in Canadian Theatre Review (193), Lucky production at 2022 rEvolver Festival; Truth or Dare, commission from Boca del Lupo’s Plays2Perform@Home (2021); The Little Mighty Superhero, Geordie Theatre 20-21 2Play Tour; The Healing, Centaur Theatre’s 2021 Catalyst Readings; TV pilot, Organic Living, selected for the 2021 Netflix Virtual Pitch.