Event Details
Friday
February 19, 2021 5:00 pm
via Zoom
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In honor of Black History Month, please join the WGAE Black Writers Salon at a series of live-tapings of OnWriting: A Podcast of the Writers Guild of America, East with three esteemed Black screenwriters – Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Shaka King – who all have excellent new films about Black icons.
The talks will be held on Zoom and moderated by OnWriting host Geri Cole, who also co-chairs the Black Writers Salon. Cole will be joined by fellow WGAE Black Writers Salon co-chairs Rashidi Hendrix and Marc Theobald. The hosts will also moderate audience questions.
Suzan-Lori Parks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter for the forthcoming film, THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY, adapted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. This film, directed by Lee Daniels, follows Holiday (Andra Day) during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes), with whom she had a tumultuous affair.
Other events in the series:
- Friday, February 12, 5:00pm ET – Ruben Santiago-Hudson, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
- Friday, February 26 at 5:00pm ET – Shaka King, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
Check out these recent OnWriting podcast episodes.
If you are a WGAE member interested in joining the WGAE Black Writers Salon, please email bfryer@wgaeast.org.
