Visiting Writers Series - Screenwriting
January 4, 2019
The University of the Arts' Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the BFA Program in Creative Writing. It features acclaimed contemporary writers who visit campus each year. These distinguished poets, novelists, short story writers and screenwriters give readings – all of which are free and open to the public
Upcoming Visiting Writers:
Carlos Rios
Tuesday, March 19, 7 PM, Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall
Carlos Rios graduated from UARTS’ Program in Writing for Film and Television in 2014. He received a Universal Pictures’ Emerging Writers Fellowship and was featured on the 2016 Black List. He has written for Colony (USA Network) and is currently a writer for On Becoming a God in Central Florida, which will premier in 2019 on YouTube Premium.
Previous Visiting Writers
2017 - 2018
Joe Swanberg
Joe Swanberg is the creator of the Netflix original series Easy, which he produces, writes, and directs. His directorial work includes episodes of HBO’s Looking and Netflix’s Love, as well as films including Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas, and Win It All. He contributed to the anthology horror film V/H/S and has acted in Adam Wingard’s You're Next, Ti West’s The Sacrament, and Annie Clark’s segment of XX. Through Forager Films production company, Swanberg has financed and produced films including Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Golden Exits, Zach Clark’s Little Sister, and Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person. Joe works in Chicago, where he lives with his wife—filmmaker Kris Swanberg—and their two children.
Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1984. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and worked at Kim’s Video in Manhattan. He is the director of the films Impolex, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, and Queen of Earth. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Joe Gangemi
Joe Gangemi is a writer and producer, known for the film Stonehearst Asylum, the television series Red Oaks and horror film Wind Chill Born in Wilmington, Delaware, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1992. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and young children.
2016 - 2017
Lesley Arfin
In 2007, her book Dear Diary, based on a column she wrote for Vice magazine, was published by Vice Books. In 2008, she became the editor-in-chief of Missbehave. Arfin went on to become a staff writer for the HBO TV series Girls. From there, she worked on the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Arfin received sole writing credit for the Halloween-themed episode in the first season. With Paul Rust and Judd Apatow, she created the Netflix series Love. Arfin drew on her own past in dealing with alcohol addiction while writing for Love.