Our life is not exactly what we hoped it would be, but in many other ways it’s incredible.Any story can be a horror story with just the right twist. I’m so lucky to have my family, although it’s hard having a kid during COVID. I work all day at my job, and it’s kind of amazing. I’m a professional writer, and that’s all I ever wanted to be.

Since Queen was first produced in 2017, you’ve won awards for other works, married, and become a mother. I really hope we do a good enough job to honor her legacy on this project. And, yes, I’m writing Sister Act 3 as we speak. The Nevers was set in Victorian times about women with superpowers who fight really well. What have those experiences been like? I got the job on the TV show because of a play of mine called House of Joy, which is an action-adventure period romance about sword-fighting women and things like that. But, in the end, I really enjoyed the process because each format allowed me to do things with the story that I couldn’t do with the other one.Īnother recent project was The Nevers, and now you’re attached to Sister Act 3. It was quite hard actually to do that, very tricky.

It was an incredible stroke of luck, and I got the opportunity to write the screenplay adaptation, too. Then my representatives sent the script around and Blumhouse was interested in turning it into a horror feature. Can you explain the journey of a story conceived for voices that became visual?Ī is this huge depository of audio books and commissioned a bunch of playwrights to write audio plays. One of your recent works, Evil Eye, was written as an audio play, then became a movie on Amazon Prime. Bees came from there, and they became a very understandable problem and a metaphor. Just by talking to her and her friends, I got to know people who study the natural world. I visited another PhD friend in Berkeley who had friends in ecology. My first attempt at a story was about organic chemistry, but I quickly realized that even organic chemists can’t explain organic chemistry to me.

I discovered that our work had a lot in common, the same kind of weird life where weekends don’t exist and there’s pressure to publish. I wanted to write a play in the world of the PhD in science because, when I was getting my Master of Fine Arts degree in theater, my roommate was a PhD student in organic chemistry. Queen is ostensibly about the science behind the disappearance of bees but turns from science and math to ethics and relationships.

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