Feb 24th Online Event: Playwriting to Screenwriting
Join us for this free online conversation with award-winning playwrights Anusree Roy and Michael MacLennan.
Learn about their careers writing for television following a start in theatre. Which playwriting skills were assets and what aspects of screenwriting required a steep learning curve?
Our guests will talk to PSP alumnus Scott Button about their career paths, share insights into differences in writing processes, discuss the distinct feedback models and more!
Details
Monday, February 24, 2025
5:30pm Pacific
Online
Free Registration
Participants
Anusree Roy
Anusree is a Governor General’s Award-nominated and four-time Dora Award-winning writer and actor.
For television, Anusree has worked on Interview With The Vampire S3 (AMC), Allegiance (CBC), Transplant S2 (NBC/Netflix/CTV), I Woke Up a Vampire (Netflix), SkyMed (Paramount+/CBC), Remedy (Global TV), Killjoys (SyFy), and Nurses S1 & S2 (NBC/Global TV).
For theatre, Anusree’s plays include: Through the Eyes of God, Sisters, Trident Moon, Little Pretty and The Exceptional, Sultans of the Street, Brothel # 9, Roshni, Letters to my Grandma, and Pyaasa. She is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award, the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the Carol Bolt Award and the Siminovitch Protégé Prize.
Michael MacLennan
Michael MacLennan has been nominated seven times for the Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award and was named the WGC’s 2018 Showrunner of the Year. A producer of nearly 300 TV episodes, his credits include Queer As Folk, Godiva’s, Flashpoint, Bitten, and The Fosters, in addition to multiple pilot scripts for CBS and ABC. He created Bomb Girls, which twice received Canadian Screen Awards Best Series nominations, and was honoured as Outstanding Dramatic Series by the US Gracie Awards. He recently served as Showrunner of The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, and created the hit show Tiny Pretty Things, Netflix’s number-one series worldwide for fourteen days.
Scott Button (Moderator)
Scott Button is an award-winning writer of television and theatre. He’s worked in the writer’s room of Family Law Season 3 & 4 (CW/Global) and has several television projects in development with Canadian production companies. Plays include the Tom Hendry-Award nominated For Now (Green Thumb Theatre) and Night Passing (Arts Club Theatre Company – audio play), among others. As an actor, he’s toured to stages across the country and has worked in television, indie films and numerous commercials. Scott has a BFA from the UBC and is a Pacific Screenwriting Program alumnus. Represented by Meridian Artists.
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