Event

Aline Brosh McKenna                                   Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve

Join us (virtually) at Writers House on Monday, November 16, at 6pm ET for this year’s Hartman Screenwriting Symposium, a conversation with screenwriter, producer, and director Aline Brosh McKenna, hosted by Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve. Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay adaptation for The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses. She also co-created the tv series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, where she was also showrunner and executive producer.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5R-kxcWyNE
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Aline Brosh McKenna is best known for her adaptation of the popular novel, The Devil Wears Prada. For that screenplay, McKenna garnered Writers Guild, BAFTA, and Scripter award nominations. McKenna’s other feature film credits include 27 Dresses, starring Katherine Heigl; Morning Glory, starring Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford and the Cameron Crowe-directed, Matt Damon-starrer, We Bought a Zoo. In 2014, McKenna added television to her resume when she and Rachel Bloom co-created the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning comedy series, Crazy Ex- Girlfriend, on which McKenna was showrunner and executive producer. McKenna also directed the finale episodes of all four seasons of the series. McKenna currently has multiple film and television projects in development through her company, Lean Machine. Next year she will write/direct and produce the Netflix film Your Place Or Mine, starring Reese Witherspoon. Recently, McKenna and Eisner Award-winning artist Ramon Perez created the graphic novel Jane, a contemporary version of the Jane Eyre story. The novel received two Eisner Award nominations, including Best Publication for Teens.

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. 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.
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HARTMAN SCREENWRITING SYMPOSIUM
Aspiring movie makers get a taste of the writers’ room through the annual Hartman Family Screenwriting Symposium, which was endowed by Alan Hartman (W’87) and Kim Hartman. Hosted each year by Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve (C’88, W’88), a screenwriting professor at Penn, the Hartman Program features fantastic conversations with screenwriters. Series visitors have included Alec Sokolow (Toy Story), Scott Neustadter (500 Days of Summer, The Fault in our Stars) and John Leguizamo (Ice Age, Romeo + Juliet).