Damon Vignale on Showrunning and The Murders

by | Mar 22, 2019 | Writing

Damon Vignale dropped in for lunch at the PSP last week. Damon is the creator and showrunner of the original crime-drama series, The Murders debuting on March 25, 2019. He was also a writer and consulting producer for The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, and writer...

Send Your Darlings Out Into the Cold (Read)

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Writing

There is nothing as exciting, or as crushingly revealing, as handing over your script to a group of actors for a cold read. How thrilling! Your characters will come to life and you will cringe at some of the lines you thought you loved. You may fight to urge to grab...

Q&A With Showrunner, Larry Raskin

by | Mar 8, 2019 | Writing

We were lucky to have Showrunner Larry Raskin join us for a lunchtime Q&A this week! Larry’s credits include Executive Producer of Reboot: The Guardian Code, Series Producer for Yukon Gold, and Director/Story Editor for Ice Pilots NWT.   On ReBoot, you hired...

The Horrible Woman Who Helped My Screenplay

by | Mar 1, 2019 | Writing

A stocky woman in her seventies, her hair as royally permed as the Queen’s, sits at a four-person table by herself. Her brown wool jacket has a seat of its own. Her cane is draped against the table leg at an angle in an effort to trip innocent passersby.  I have...