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• Writers Workshop with Lorien McKenna

  • When
    5 Jun 2024
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual [Zoom]
  • Registered
    6 registrants

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  Writing Workshop with Screenwriter Lorien McKenna - Pixar alum and co-host of the Screenwriting Life Podcast

  
  

  Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

  6:30 - 8:00 PM, PDT
  Online: Zoom
  
  $10 WIFSFBA Members
  $20 Non-Members
  

  
  

  Please join us for an interactive writing workshop with Lorien McKenna, screenwriter extraordinaire and popular co-host of the Screenwriting Life podcast! First, Lorien will talk to us about her journey as a screenwriter from working at Pixar (Up, Brave, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur) to showrunner for Emmy-winning Tab Time. This will be followed by an interactive writing workshop focused on “character want.” Afterwards, we’ll have an engaging Q&A with Lorien. Sign up and get into the LAVA of your story!

  
  

  LORIEN MCKENNA BIO:
  

  Lorien McKenna is an Emmy-nominated and NAACP Image Award-winning writer. 

  As a Story Manager at Pixar Animation Studios, Lorien worked on Up, Brave, Inside Out, and The Good Dinosaur. She was the Development Producer on several animated features at Paramount Animation and was the Co-Executive Producer for Curious George for the TV series and animated feature films. 

  
  

  Most recently, Lorien was the Showrunner for the Emmy-winning YouTube/Kids at Play preschool show Tab Time. She’s written and developed for NBC, Hulu, Comedy Central, and Netflix. She adapted and will make her feature directorial debut with How to Set a Fire and Why, based on the novel by Jesse Ball. She has written two Red Raion projects and is in development on a third. She is currently in development on an animated project with Rideback and Titan1A producing based on the Zomben Comic books. 

  
  

  Lorien is a Script Editor for Screen Australia (How to Please a Woman), Screen Queensland, and Screen Ireland. She is a mentor for the Cinestory Foundation and the Nostos Screenwriting Retreats. She received a BA in English Literature & Performing Arts and an MFA in Playwriting from St. Mary’s College of California where she taught as an Adjunct Professor in the English and Theater Departments. 

  
  

  She is the co-host of the popular podcast The Screenwriting Life, along with screenwriter Meg LeFauve. 

  
  

  Her favorite writing snacks are dill pickle chips and black licorice.

  
  

  
  

  Questions about this event? Please email us at BOD-admin@wifsfba.org with subject line 'Writers Workshop'.

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