Event

Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve in conversation w/ Danny Strong

Hartman Screenwriting Symposium
Thursday, September 26, 6:00 PM
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk | Arts Cafe
RSVP required: wh@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 746-POEM

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Danny Strong is a screenwriter, director, actor and producer. He wrote the screenplays for Recount, Game Change, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I and II (co-written), The Butler, and Rebel in the Rye, which he also directed. Strong is also the co-creator and executive producer of the hit FOX drama Empire and the executive producer of the TV show Proven Innocent. As an actor, Strong has been featured in a number of film, theater, and television projects, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mad Men, Gilmore Girls, Justified, Girls and, most recently as Todd Krakow in the last three seasons of Billions. For his writing and producing Strong has won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Writers Guild Awards, an NAACP Image Award, the Producers Guild Award, a Peabody, and the Pen Award.

Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve is a novelist, screenwriter, film producer and teacher. Her most recent work is the Young Readers adaptation of the 2017 National Book finalist Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar for Aladdin Books / Simon & Schuster, due to be published in 2019. She is also working on a film adaptation of the Wesley Stace novel Charles Jessold: Considered as a Murderer and her own young adult book series, Hurricane Ike. Her previous novels are Drizzle, Cranberry Queen and The Difference Between You and Me. She worked in the film business for many years and graduated from Penn with a dual degree from the Wharton School & the College.