I’m trying to prep episode 5 with the director, while down the hill, scenes from episode 3 that I feel like I’m still finding are being filmed. I’m shoving a salad into my face between …
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it’s a circle
Once a year, every year, I hurt my back. I take my off the ball and my physical therapy, I hunch over my computer and I slump in chairs and on planes and I cross …
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set life balance
Bobbie says she wants to go to work with mama, I tell her there’s no toys there, she says BYE MAMA! Joe comes to set with me and finds it full of trucks and snacks, …
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Birthdayxiety
Noun: the feeling when you’re at work and it’s your birthday and you’re at once VERY ANXIOUS about how and when there will be a big group moment with cake and singing and also VERY …
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Body apology
We have officially started SET LIFE with The Five Star Weekend. It’s my first time on set in six years, first time as a Showrunner, and I am officially confronting my innate desire to apology …
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SPORTS
NC —- > NYC playwright transplant who, as a child, scored on her own team in both soccer and basketball not one but multiple times and in fact celebrating her goal / point for a …
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the house my words bought
I sit in the shade outside of the house my words bought, trying to write more words. Even though my words were worthy enough to afford a house with a shaded spot out back and …
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A room of one’s own
I RAN MY FIRST WRITER’S ROOM! I can’t believe it began, and I survived, and that it’s done. Showrunning is basically like suddenly becoming a CEO after spending many years making little bracelets in your …
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again I dream of bacon
If I wrote my dreams into an episode I would get a note that they’re too on the nose, they live on my nose as I sleep. I dream, again, of bacon, always bacon. I’m …
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Scout
TO SCOUT: to venture to an island with a film crew, to poke around where you Intend to film, to snoop first and ask permission later, to lean into your biggest ideas and strategize and …