May 2015
Friday, 5/1
Safekids meet killer Prose
2:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
Put a great READING into you Reading Day: Penn and Drexel student writers create a pop-up literacy community to share their best fiction, non-fiction, and writing for children!
Saturday, 5/2
Sunday, 5/3
Monday, 5/4
Tuesday, 5/5
Wednesday, 5/6
Thursday, 5/7
Friday, 5/8
Saturday, 5/9
Sunday, 5/10
Monday, 5/11
Tuesday, 5/12
Wednesday, 5/13
Thursday, 5/14
Friday, 5/15
Saturday, 5/16
So You Always Wanted to Write a Screenplay
Alumni Day workshop led by Andy Wolk (C'70)
4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
RSVP: wh@writing.upenn.edu or (215) 746-POEM
watch: a video recording of this event via KWH-TV
listen: to an audio
recording of this event
How many times have you been to the movies and thought, "I could do that"? Have you ever thought, "I have a movie in me I want to see on the big screen"? Well, this participatory Kelly Writers House workshop will help launch you into the movies. Or at least learning about them. We will deal with how you come to grips with developing a screen story, structuring it, writing it, and hopefully selling it.
Andy Wolk’s writing/directing career began with the much-lauded HBO movie Criminal Justice starring Forest Whitaker that made Time Magazine’s “Ten Best” List. Mr. Wolk has been nominated 3 times for the Writers Guild Award and won it once for Natica Jackson starring Michelle Pfeiffer. He has been nominated for the Director's Guild Award several times and has directed numerous episodes of shows such as The Sopranos, Damages,NYPD Blue, Criminal Minds, Without A Trace and The Practice. He has been writer and director on many legal-themed movies including Deliberate Intent, the critically praised 1st movie ever for FX starring Timothy Hutton and (with his brother Peter, also a Penn grad) the acclaimed Fighting The Odds for Lifetime, The Defenders: Payback, Choice of Evils and Taking The First for Showtime. Mr. Wolk’s other writing credits include HBO’s Emmy-winning From The Earth to The Moon and the award-winning Tales from The Crypt starring Demi Moore. He has written features for Miramax, Paramount,Tri-Star, UA, MGM, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and AVCO Embassy plus pilots for Fox, ABC, and Showtime.
Sunday, 5/17
Senior Capstone Program
10:00AM in the Arts Cafe
- Introduction, by Al Filreis
- Brennan Cusack, introduced by Al Filreis
- Alex Stern (Ortega), introduced by Jessica Lowenthal
- Emma Silverman, introduced by Al Filreis
- Donald Antennen, introduced by Alli Katz
- Annie Nelson, introduced by Al Filreis
- Jack Nessman, introduced by Jessica Lowenthal
- Katie Antonsson, introduced by Lily Applebaum
- Augustus Bernstein, introduced by Al Filreis
- Yessi Gutierrez, introduced by Jessica Lowenthal
- Carolina Beltran, introduced by Al Filreis
- Isaac Kaplan, introduced by Lily Applebaum
- Kristie Gadson, introduced by Alli Katz
- Chase Harrow, introduced by Al Filreis
- Andie Davidson, introduced by Jamie-Lee Josselyn
- Diamond Irwin, introduced by Al Filreis
- Kenna O'Rourke, introduced by Jessica Lowenthal
- Victoria Ford, introduced by Jamie-Lee Josselyn
- Julia Schwartz, introduced by Alli Katz
- Nadia Laher, introduced by Jessica Lowenthal
- Closing Remarks, by Al Filreis