John and Craig welcome back Aline Brosh McKenna to talk about what she learned producing four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Aline shares the importance of trusting your gut, building school spirit, and empowering the voices around you.
We’ll also talk about Emma Thompson, agency-affiliated producers, and more.
Links:
- Emma Thompson’s open letter to Skydance.
- Episode 175 Transcript
- A Very English Scandal
- Birdcage 2
- Instagram #jackwawa
- New Highland 2 videos and tutorials
- We’re hiring a coder! If you’re interested please send an email to assistant@johnaugust.com
- You can now order Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon
- Submit entries for The Scriptnotes Pitch Session here.
- T-shirts are available here! We’ve got new designs, including Colored Revisions, Karateka, and Highland2.
- John August on Twitter
- Craig Mazin on Twitter
- Aline Brosh McKennaon Twitter
- John on Instagram
- Find past episodes
- Scriptnotes Digital Seasons are also now available!
- Outro by Victor Krause (send us yours!)
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.
UPDATE 4-2-18: The transcript of this episode can be found here.