Darci Interviews TV Writers

Home Town: West Hartford, Connecticut Current Town: Santa Monica, California What are you working on now?: I’m currently writing a feature animation project for DreamWorks, a half hour series for Netflix, and actually starting a new animated feature for an independent studio. For tv writers/showrunners, my wife and I have been doing a lot of feature work during the pandemic. And a lot of animation! Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: I’ve always been a bit of a con artist looking for loopholes to beat the system. In high school history class we had weekly quizzes where we had to do ten short (one paragraph) answers and I quickly realized the teacher counted *down* from 100, marking ten points off for every wrong answer, but she didn’t care what order you answered the questions in. So if I only knew 8 or 9 of them, I’d just put them in random order to disguise the fact that I hadn’t done all ten. She’d see everything