Darci Interviews TV Writers

Home Town: Alexandria, Louisiana  Current Town: Santa Monica, CA What are you working on now?: I’m working on an adult animated sci-fi drama for HBOMax that… hasn’t been announced yet! Story from childhood that explains who I am as a writer?: My mother claims that as a toddler I once sat in a mound of red fire-ants and let them sting me because I thought they were interesting. This may be a good metaphor for my love of probing the dark and scary in my writing. If I could change one thing about TV?: I would love a return to bigger episode orders! Who are/were my television heroes?: Jane Espenson, Damon Lindelof, Glen Mazzara (why was Damien cancelled?!), Sera Gamble, Akela Cooper, Javi Grillo-Marxuach, Jose Molina, and like a squillion friends who are keeping it real on writing staffs all over town. What kind of television excites me?: I love anything that scratches that itch of humans behaving badly without realizing why. We the audience can see it’s because of their past traumas,