008: The Actor/Writer/Producer: Wearing All the Hats and Thriving! (Guest: Colette Freedman)

02/26/20 • 27 min

Colette Freedman is an internationally produced novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She is also an actor and producer.
Host Jenn Page and Colette talk about ghostwriting, why she believes everyone is a writer, where original ideas come from, working with young actors, getting the most production value from your budget and how budget can lead to unique story ideas, why you should take time with your indie film’s post instead of rushing it out, filmmakers stop thinking no but and instead yes and, how to turn a produced screenplay into a novel, and more!

Conversation: Empowerment. Everything you do can empower others, dealing with grief, and what it means to be a militant optimist.

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More on Colette:An internationally produced novelist, playwright and screenwriter, Colette Freedman was voted “One of 50 to Watch” by The Dramatist's Guild. Her play “Sister Cities” was the hit of the Edinburgh Fringe and earned five star reviews. It has been produced around the country and internationally, 26 times including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur) and Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle) and Melbourne. The film version (Michelle Trachtenberg, Stana Katic, Jess Weixler, Troian Bellisario) is on Netflix. Her musical “Serial Killer Barbie” finished a sold out run in Los Angeles and was mounted in New Zealand (Heuer Press) She has published nine novels including The Thirteen Hallows (Tor/Macmillan), co-written, The New York Times best selling author Michael Scott. Her novel, The Affair (Kensington), The Consequences (Kensington) and most recently, her Steve Dorff biography I Wrote That One, Too.. She co-wrote and co-produced the feature AND THEN THERE WAS EVE which won the LA Film Festival (Breaking Glass Pictures). She co-wrote and co-produced the feature MILES UNDERWATER which is currently in post production. She has co-written nine thrillers for Lifetime with her writing partner Brooke Purdy. She has written THE MYSTERY OF CASA MATUSITA (with Malcolm McDowell and Skeet Ulrich) which is in pre-production. Other producing credits include the critically acclaimed indie QUALITY PROBLEMS, (Freestyle). A prolific script doctor and ghostwriter, Colette also teaches screenwriting at Antioch University and NYFA www.metamorfic.com. www.colettefreedman.com

Conversation: Empowerment. Everything you do can empower others, dealing with grief, and what it means to be a militant optimist.

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007: Pitching, Selling, Writing and Making Your First Network TV Show (Guest: Shilpi Roy)

Shilpi Roy is a film & TV director and writer who sold her first show without having an agent. She is currently a staff writer on a Netflix show and has a few more shows in the pipeline.

Host Jenn Page and Shilpi Roy dive into how she sold her first show to ABC Family (now Freeform) without having an agent, what it was like writing and filming that show, what she does to keep getting work, and how she utilized her time and connections while in the studios’ diversity programs.

Intuitive Conversation: True Offering -- trusting that the path you are being given is the path that is taking you somewhere.

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Hailing from North Carolina, Shilpi Roy comes from a traditional Indian family and grew up watching only the song-and-dance numbers from Bollywood movies. Roy sold her first television show, BROWN GIRLS, to Freeform TV. Working with Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment (AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE, A MILLION LITTLE THINGS), Nastaran Dibai (DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, ACCORDING TO JIM), and Mark Cendrowski (THE BIG BANG THEORY, YOUNG SHELDON), Roy co-wrote and co-executive-produced the pilot. Roy was also the showrunner of MATCHELORETTE, a CMT pilot for SoulPancake (a division of Participant Media). She currently writes on the Netflix Original Series TEAM KAYLIE and is developing a show for The Disney Channel with Lilly Singh’s (A LITTLE LATE WITH LILLY) company Unicorn Island.

Roy began her career working for Warren Littlefield, executive producer of TV’s FARGO and THE HANDMAID'S TALE, as well as the former head of NBC Television. Roy then attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts and received an MFA in Film Production where she was the recipient of an Annenberg Scholarship. She has also participated in the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women Program, as well as Universal Studio’s Directors Initiative.

Shilpi began her career writing and directing the award-winning comedy web series HIPSTERHOOD, which won multiple awards across two seasons. She then produced and directed the magician-comedy series DISILLUSIONED, which garnered a Best Comedy Web Series Award from the HollyWeb Festival. She has also directed episodes of the Emmy®-winning web series EMMA APPROVED.

Roy lives with her husband, cinematographer Anthony C. Kuhnz, in Los Angeles with 2 cats.

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009: Working with Actors: Script Analysis to On Set (Guest: Lauren Patrice Nadler)

Lauren Nadler is a director, actor, and an international acting coach who has assisted in taking countless performers to the next level in their careers. She has also directed and acted in dozens of films and series.

Host Jenn Page and Lauren dig into working with actors. Topics include script analysis, the importance of prepping as a director, how to prep your actors for intense indie shoots, digging deeper into scripts, getting through to the toughest actors, and more.
Intuitive Conversation: Having patience with actors and yourself.

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Lauren has led actors to bookings in national commercials, as well as series regular and contract roles, lead and supporting roles, and recurring and guest star roles, both in television and film.

From NYC, Lauren planted roots in LA to further share her years of experience in front of and behind the camera. She started out as an actor and comes from an elite lineage of teachers. Having studied acting extensively with Karen Ludwig, she eventually became her leading student. Karen was the key to Uta Hagen.

Lauren possesses a strong insight into the casting process. She has done a good deal of casting, including casting Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) in one of his first lead roles in Ten Benny. She has also been involved in the casting of several movies with the talents of Simon Baker (The Mentalist), Lauryn Hill (singer), Jesse Martin (Law and Order), Frank Vincent (Sopranos) and more.

These experiences working with seasoned and (at the time) undiscovered Oscar winners, taught her so much about the commitment it takes to get noticed in this competitive field. She applied this knowledge when taking on her own projects. In addition to directing many theater productions and independent films, she also has a feature film, several award-winning short films and an entire eleven-episode webseries under her belt. In her projects, she was able to present close to a hundred of her students in front of and behind the camera. Lauren once had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Danny Nucci (Titanic) in Italian American Reconciliation.
Directing: LaurenPatriceNadler.com Acting Studio: LaurenPatriceNadlerStudios.com