From Page to Stage to Hybrid to Film: How a Writer Adapts.
Friday 6/13/25, doors open at 5:00pm ET, interview starts at 5:30
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6/13 - In the room: playwright Alex Goldberg, whose play Guellen, Kansas was part of our 2023 "TRUSpeak: Hear Our Voices!" evening of short plays filmed for zoom. Alex embraced the process of rethinking a stage play for the film medium and successfully collaborated with director Jordan Richards to create a work that was cinematic enough to be submitted to film festivals. That experience gave him the motivation and the knowledge to adapt another of his plays, Broad Daylight, into a film that he himself directed and shopped to festivals, and has screened at nine film festivals so far, including Santa Fe International Film Festival and Sedona Film Festival. What are the essential differences between stage and film scripts? What does a writer need to know to make the transition? The TRUSpeak evening was conceived as a hybrid, a filmed play. In Broad Daylight Alex took the leap to totally rethinking his piece as a film. And then he took another leap: he completed a paid training program at Netflix to be an adapter of dubbed foreign content.
