MF GALAXY

LET THE WRITER BE THE BOSS, RACIAL INCLUSION + ALIENATION, GREGGS WAS A KITTEN NOT A DOG, WALTER MOSLEY, DAVID SIMON + BEING THE MORAL COMPASS LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Although best known for her role as the Baltimore homicide investigator Kima Greggs, Sonja Sohn is also a performance poet; her second film role was in Marc Levin’s 1998 indie film Slam, which she also co-wrote. She went on to appear in John Singleton’s Shaft reboot, and in Martin Scorcese’s Bringing Out the Dead. Of combined African-American and East Asian heritage, she won a 2008 television supporting actor Asian Excellence Award for her work on The Wire. In 2008 she campaigned for Barack Obama, and in 2009 she founded reWIRED for Change , a Baltimore-based NGO that seeks to help at-risk youth. In 2011, she won the Woman of the Year award from the Harvard Black Men’s Forum. In today’s episode of MF GALAXY, Sohn discusses: How she as a writer responds to the scripts she’s given to act The experience o...

HOW BEING A SCRIPT COORDINATOR BUILT HER WRITING CAREER + MESSED WITH HER DIRECTING, RESEARCH WITH RIDE-ALONGS AND IN JAILS, DRAWING ON LIFE EXPERIENCE FOR POWERFUL SCENES Joy Lusco Kecken began her professional screenwriting career as an intern and script coordinator for NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street, and went on to freelance for the show. She served as a script coordinator for HBO’s The Wire, for which she also directed one episode and wrote three; she served as a story consultant on the 50 Cent bio-pic Get Rich or Die Tryin’, wrote for Standoff and The Division, directed the documentary We Are Arabbers, and wrote and co-directed the award-winning short film Louisville starring Andre Braugher. In this episode of MF GALAXY, Lusco Kecken discusses: How the multifaceted role of script coordinator on Homicide and The Wire helped her build her writing career How her experience as a script coordinator partly interfered with her work as a director for The Wire How a tel...