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Featured Friday: Teachers

January 10, 2025 Weekend Read

Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at teachers as characters; how they can drive the transformation of their students, what the profession can illuminate about the teacher, and how they’re forced to confront real issues every day.

Our collection includes:

  • A.P. Bio – “Pilot” by Mike O’Brien
  • Abbott Elementary – “Pilot” by Quinta Brunson
  • Dead Poets Society by Tom Schulman
  • Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
  • English Teacher – “Pilot” by Brian Jordan Alvarez
  • Half Nelson by Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
  • Mr. Corman – “Weekend” by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Mr. Holland’s Opus by Patrick Sheane Duncan
  • The Holdovers by David Hemingson
  • Whiplash by Damien Chazelle

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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