The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna - 62 | How To Find Truth in Comedy w/ Sam Bain

62 | How To Find Truth in Comedy w/ Sam Bain

10/17/21 • 60 min

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Sam Bain is one of our industry’s premiere comedy writers, having co-created multiple beloved sitcoms including the UK’s cult hit Peep Show. But today Sam reveals that the most important ingredients for comedy are truth and pain. Buckle up!

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61 | Writing Across Multiple Genres And Finding Your Voice w/ Sean Presant

Longtime TV vet Sean Presant has an eclectic resume includes features, shorts, and TV in ALL genres from multi-cam sitcoms, to reality competition, to prestige crime shows. So how has Sean managed such an impressively wide variety of work? Is it really possible for us to "pull that off?" Sean talks about the signature themes in our work, how they inform our voice, and how we can discover it ourselves!

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63 | LIVE From The Austin Film Festival: Story Workshop

WE DID IT.

Join Meg and Lorien, and their wonderful audience, as they workshop with three very brave and brilliant writers to get to the core of their story in from the Historic Sanctuary of St. David's Episcopal Church at the 2021 Austin Film Festival for our very first live, in-person show.

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