Episode 2: Phil Kellard
Home Town: I was born in Los Angeles and spent my childhood in Hollywood and the Laurel Canyon area. Current Town: I am currently residing in Studio City, CA. What are you working on now?: I’m dusting off a script I wrote years ago about a civil rights case that I hope to retool and turn it into a limited series. I’m also working on an adaptation of another true story from a book I just received. Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: As kids, my brother and I wrote comic books constantly. We drove my mother crazy, because she had to sew all the pages of this junk together every day to make them look like comic books. It was this early appetite for telling stories that eventually grew into the desire to write my own stories professionally. What started me writing also was watching reruns after school of the Marx Brothers movies and the films of Preston Sturges. Sullivan’s Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle