"The Screen and Stage Writer's Panel"

Sponsored by Radio/TV/Film, Creative Writing for the Media Program, MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage, School of Communication.

The Screen and Stage Writer's Panel

Meet some of the minds behind our most well-known television shows, movies and plays. Q&A segment followed by a reception.

Featuring:
Greg Berlanti (C'94)
Writer, Producer, Director
(Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Jack and Bobby)

Eric Bernt (C'86)
Writer, Producer
(Romeo Must Die, Virtuosity)

Hank Chilton (WCAS '91)
Writer
(Nip/Tuck)

Wendy Macleod
Writer
(House of Yes, Juvenilia)

Rebecca Gilman Playwright (Spinning Into Butter, The Glory of Living)

A Conversation: About Legal Fiction

Pamela Samuels-Young

Author of Every Reasonable Doubt, Managing Counsel for Toyota USA, former counsel at Raytheon, graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and UC Berkeley Law School.

A reading from "The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean"

Doris Garraway

NU faculty member, author of The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean and organizer of October 2004 NU symposium: "The Haitian Revolution: History, Memory, Representation."

"Readings from Recent Fiction"

Arthur Golden

NU Writer in Residence for Spring 2006. Author of "Memoirs of a Geisha." Mr. Golden holds an M.A. in Japanese history (Columbia University) and an M.A. in English (Boston University).

"Reading of Recent Work"

Orhan Pamuk

Author or My Name is Red, Snow, and Istanbul: Memories and the City , and winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Prix Medicis Etranger.

This program is sponsored by the NU Center for International and Comparative Studies, The Central and Southeat European Studies Consortium and the Center for the Writing Arts.

Arthur Golden

NU Writer in Residence for Spring 2006. Author of "Memoirs of a Geisha." Mr. Golden holds an M.A. in Japanese history (Columbia University) and an M.A. in English (Boston University).

"A Conversation with The New Yorker's Editor"

David Remnick

Editor in Chief of The New Yorker, author of Reporting: Writing from the New Yorker, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero.

A reading from: "Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde:War, Civilization, Modernity"

Christine Froula

NU Faculty member; Guggenheim and NU President's Fellow; author of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde:War, Civilization, Modernity, To Write Paradise: Style and Error in Pound's Cantos, and Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce.

"So You Want to Write...Young Adult Literature?"

Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis

NU faculty member of Civil and Environmental Enginer, winner of the Palladium Medal for Engineering and Conservation and author or Pocket Stones: A Child's Story of World War II in the Philippines.