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“Do writers not care about my kidney donation?”
Dawn Dorland donated her kidney, but her story, she feels, was stolen. In the New York Times Magazine, Robert Kolker details a years-long grudge, and ensuing legal battle, between writers Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson. Dorland gave a kidney in a non-di…
The unwritten rules of Black TV
For [Felicia D.] Henderson, working on Family Matters offered an introduction to a defining feature of her long career in Hollywood. Negotiated authenticity is the phrase she uses to describe what many Black screenwriters are tasked with producing—Blac…
25 Playwrights and their Plays, 1700-1799
Mary Pix (1666-1709): Manchester Metropolitan University recently posted a complete performance (production credits) of Mary Pix’s comedy, The Beau Defeated (1700). The play was also adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the title The Fantasti…
‘They sent a thank you note and $5,000 – the movie made $1bn’
Marvel and DC face backlash over pay (The Guardian) – As the comics giants make billions from their storylines and characters, writers and artists are speaking out about their struggles for fair payment The “big two” comic companies – Marvel and DC – m…