The Craft
Writing for Film and Television 2022-2019
October 16, 2020
The Buddy System
PEN15’s co-creators/stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle are real-life best friends who bonded through writing and being brutally honest about how heartbreaking and hysterically funny life is for 13-year-old girls.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
May 29, 2020
Great Character
Kerry Ehrin, showrunner for Apple TV+’s flagship series The Morning Show, navigates the uncharted waters of writing a TV show during a pandemic with a combination of empathetic cool and an abiding knack for great characters.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
January 24, 2020
Underground
Korean writer-director Bong Joon Ho reflects on the universal appeal of Parasite, his acclaimed tale of a basement-dwelling family of have-nots who con their way into a wealthy home.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
January 17, 2020
Double Edge
Rian Johnson’s awards-nominated murder mystery Knives Out melds an Agatha Christie-style whodunit with a Hitchcockian thriller while bringing both genres into the modern age.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
February 24, 2019
Before the Wall
Daniel Sawka’s HBO feature about an immigrant child detained at the U.S.-Mexico border might seem ripped from the headlines, but the story of Icebox was born years before Donald Trump took office.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
January 18, 2019
Our House
Mike Flanagan “remixes” the horror genre, bringing it closer to home by infusing it with family drama on the hit Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House.
Written by Dylan Callaghan