Writers Guild Foundation Collection


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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The Writers Guild Foundation program, The Writer Speaks, has recorded interviews with prominent writers about their careers and craft for many years. In 2013, The Interviews began co-producing oral history interviews with our friends at the Writers Guild Foundation. We share research and the content from the interviews, which can be viewed in their entirety on this site.

Highlights
Joshua Brand on dealing with writers block and on the general process of writing
Elias Davis and David Pollock on dealing with writer's block
John Wells on the writing of ER and the use of real medical terminology in the scripts
Rita Lakin on being head writer for The Doctors
Sam Bobrick on his membership in the Writers Guild
Hugh Wilson on the famous WKRP in Cincinnati  episode "Turkeys Away" and the cancellation of the show
Interviews in this Collection
Harlan Ellison
Ken Levine
David Isaacs
David Pollock
Elias Davis
Hugh Wilson
Ron Clark
John Wells
Dan Wilcox
Thad Mumford
Bernie Orenstein
Ron Friedman
Arnie Kogen
Sam Bobrick
Joshua Brand
Larry Wilmore
Rita Lakin
Alan Zweibel
Walon Green
Dean Hargrove
Carl Gottlieb
Daniel Lipman
Ron Cowen

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