John Orloff (Masters of the Air)
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John Orloff (creator, Masters of the Air) discusses scripts as selling tools vs scripts as production tools, integrating research into scenes, writing a nine-hour movie, Band of Brothers, and more.

**Come see Retrospecs this Sunday, March 17, 2-4pm PT at the Elysian Theater in LA! **In Retrospecs, we dig those old scripts by established writers out of their drawers and expose them to the warm light of the stage. Starring actors you know and love from TV, film, comedy, and the stage. From Girls to Gilmore Girls, from the Big Bang Theory to Buffy, get NEW EPISODES of your favorite shows, written by writers who never wrote for those shows!

The March 17 show features a *Mad About You *from 1997 by Ben Blacker and a Girls written by Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Brooklyn 99).

Live or streaming/VOD tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/retrospecs

THE WRITERS PANEL IS A COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION.

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