{"id":8801,"date":"2020-09-10T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2024-03-26T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:24:47","slug":"writing-and-showrunning-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/09\/10\/writing-and-showrunning-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing and showrunning&#8230; from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TczBCkbhYBM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>Join film and television writer <strong>Hilary Weisman Graham (COM)<\/strong> for a webinar conversation on her experience writing and producing hit shows, including &#8220;Orange is the New Black&#8221;, &#8220;Bones&#8221;, and &#8220;Kidding&#8221;, as well as her journey producing the upcoming Netflix show &#8220;Social Distance&#8221; entirely remotely from home. Moderated by fellow writer <strong>Amy Sullivan (COM)<\/strong>, Hilary will also discuss her path from Comm Ave to Hollywood, and she will also take questions from attendees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the speakers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong title=\"\">HILARY WEISMAN GRAHAM (COM)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Hilary Weisman Graham is the creator and showrunner of the forthcoming Netflix anthology series,\u00a0<\/span><strong>Social Distance<\/strong><span>. As a TV writer\/producer Hilary\u2019s credits include\u00a0<\/span><strong title=\"\">Kidding<\/strong><span>\u00a0(Showtime),\u00a0<\/span><strong title=\"\">Orange is the New Black<\/strong><span>\u00a0(Netflix), and\u00a0<\/span><strong title=\"\">Bones<\/strong><span>\u00a0(Fox). She has also written numerous screenplays and is the author of\u00a0<\/span><strong title=\"\">Reunited<\/strong><span>, a young adult novel published by Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong title=\"\">AMY SULLIVAN (COM)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Amy Sullivan is a Los Angeles writer, stand-up comedian and actor. She most recently worked on the ABC pilot\u00a0<\/span><strong title=\"\">Work Wife<\/strong><span>\u00a0and is now writing a feature being developed by Rumble Riot Pictures. Her one-act comedy play\u00a0<\/span><strong><em>The Canary<\/em><\/strong><span>, which she wrote and will star in, is due to premiere in 2021 at The Broadwater theater in Hollywood and is being produced by Asylum Theater Company. She hopes to soon sell one of her pilots that is being shopped by her management company (Citizen Skull) and looks forward to joining the Boston University Young Alumni Council in the fall!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from film and TV writer Hilary Weisman Graham (COM) in conversation with Amy Sullivan (COM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":15016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[53,77,135,662,354,661,589,136,198,660],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/09\/Email-Misc-non-events-2-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Hear from film and TV writer Hilary Weisman Graham (COM) in conversation with Amy Sullivan (COM).","agg_title":"Writing and showrunning... from home","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions\/15017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}