EPISODE · Aug 19, 2020 · 1H 3M
Jason Odell Williams - Playwright and Producer Walking the Line Between Stage and Screen
from Why I‘ll Never Make It · host Patrick Oliver Jones
Jason Odell Williams is an award-winning playwright and Emmy-nominated television producer. But his first love was acting...until it wasn't. In this episode he shares that journey from saying the words to writing them. We specifically talk about his plays Handle With Care and Church & State, both of which were produced by his wife (and former WINMI guest) Charlotte Cohn. He opens up about his difficulty with taking criticism and how different writing is from the stage to small screen, especially when those shows involve true crime or brain teasers. Take the survey & join the WINMI Newsletter - whyillnevermakeit.com Follow Jason: Instagram / The New Play Exchange Follow WINMI: Instagram / Twitter / Blog Donate to the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/winmipodcast ————— WINMI is a Top 20 Theater Podcast thanks to you! https://blog.feedspot.com/theatre_podcasts/ Music used in this episode: "Small Hours" "Dim" "Arrival of the Geese" "Daybreak" and "The Gloaming" by Chad Crouch is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jason Odell Williams is an award-winning playwright and Emmy-nominated television producer. But his first love was acting...until it wasn't. In this episode he shares that journey from saying the words to writing them. We specifically talk about his plays Handle With Care and Church & State, both of which were produced by his wife (and former WINMI guest) Charlotte Cohn. He opens up about his difficulty with taking criticism and how different writing is from the stage to small screen, especially when those shows involve true crime or brain teasers. Take the survey & join the WINMI Newsletter - whyillnevermakeit.com Follow Jason: Instagram / The New Play Exchange Follow WINMI: Instagram / Twitter / Blog Donate to the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/winmipodcast ————— WINMI is a Top 20 Theater Podcast thanks to you! https://blog.feedspot.com/theatre_podcasts/ Music used in this episode: "Small Hours" "Dim" "Arrival of the Geese" "Daybreak" and "The Gloaming" by Chad Crouch is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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