Jennifer Lieberman’s one-woman show Year of the Slut premieres in LA January 11 and 12th, before moving onto New York in February. A Canadian writer/performer, Lieberman has starred in several original theater pieces in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, and has penned a number of screenplays, stage plays, and a book of erotic poetry. [...]
Playwright Karl Gajdusek‘s greedy is about five people struggling with greed, hope, desire, and integrity in the wake of an emailed plea for money that promises big returns. The West Coast Premiere, presented by Red Dog Squadron, opens this week. Greedy was the first recipient of the Clubbed Thumb Biennual Playwright Commission, part of the four-time [...]
Jenny “Kasey Bomber” Barbee and Alex “Axles of Evil” Cohen are the authors of Down and Derby: the Insider’s Guide to Roller Derby” (Soft Skull Press). Barbee works at the Writers Guild of America and Cohen is a news anchor at LA-based NPR station KPCC. This writer/derby-girl duo talk about their journeys into derby, their writing [...]
Veteran journalist, author, and screenwriter Joel Harry Newman has been in the business for more than 25 years. His experience includes working as a reporter and editor for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner newspaper, business writer on staff at ADWEEK Magazine, and freelancing for publications as the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, Details, L.A. [...]
Thaisa Frank’s debut novel, Heidegger’s Glasses, recently released by Counterpoint Press, takes place toward the end of World War II in an underground compound of scribes: translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps. In this Author Q&A, Frank touches on her journey to author—starting with her first short [...]
Geoffrey Golden is the Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Devastator, a quarterly print comedy magazine. A comedy writer and producer living in Los Angeles, Golden has written feature animation, video games, books, comics, comedy articles, blogs, and web series. Past clients include Warner Bros, Fox, Cracked.com, Capcom and National Lampoon. Plus, he wrote the upcoming [...]
Alvaro Rodriguez began collaborating with cousin director Robert Rodriguez on various screenplays before scoring his own pitch for a vampire western prequel to Quentin Tarantino’s genre-bending screenplay From Dusk Till Dawn: The Hangman’s Daughter (Dimension Films, 2000). His most recent collaborations include Warner Brothers’ Shorts (2009) with James Spader and Fox’s Machete (2010) with Robert [...]
Jeff Potter is the author of Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food. Potter, who studied computer science and visual art at Brown University, has “done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing,” and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for friends. With food science, experiments, interviews, and recipes, [...]
Rick Bakas is the author of Quick Bites: 75 Savory Tips for Social Media Success. Bakas is the Director of Social Media for St. Supéry winery in Napa Valley and a Certified Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers. Bakas speaks with Write On! about why and how he wrote Quick Bites. Plus, he offers [...]
Write On! speaks with filmmaker Kyle Hartnett, a graduate of San Francisco State University’s film department and a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division. His first documentary, No Religious Preference, exploring Muslim-Americans serving in the U.S. military, is part of the Operation In Their Boots (OITB) documentary series. For this unique filmmaking fellowship, Brave New Foundation commissioned [...]
Debra Eckerling is a professional writer and coach with expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking, as well as social media and live networking.
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The leader of Write On!, Debra has been a professional writer for more than 10 years. She has expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Write On! is a virtual - and live - writers support group, which helps writers of all abilities, mediums, and specialties take their projects to the next level.
