WRITER-DIRECTOR JOY LUSCO KECKEN ON HOMICIDE, THE WIRE, BEAT SHEETS, RESEARCH, AND CAREER BUILDING (MF GALAXY 076)
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...