137 | Stranger Things Writer/Producer Curtis Gwinn on Navigating The Writers Room

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Curits Gwinn has worked on some of the most acclaimed shows of the 2010s including The Walking Dead, The Leftovers, and Stranger Things, but he's the first to admit that each room has been a valuable learning experience, even for a writer as seasoned as he is. In this candid conversation, Curtis opens up about the lessons he learned across multiple writers rooms, how to stay spiritually grounded in such a rocky business, and why a 1984 Halloween Costume helped secure his spot on Stranger Things.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour And I'm
0:05.8	Lorian McKenna and today we are thrilled to be joined by my friend and the writer
0:11.2	extraordinaryer Curtis Gwyn.
0:14.0	Curtis is an Emmy nominated writer who has worked on some of the most celebrated shows of the last decade including The Walking Dead, the leftovers, and stranger things.
0:23.0	And hello, Curtis, let's say hello first.
0:27.0	Hi.
0:28.0	Hi. How was everybody?
0:29.0	Welcome to the show.
0:30.0	Thank you.
0:31.0	Thanks for having me.
0:32.0	I'm psyched. I've been listening to all of them. So. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me.
0:33.0	I'm psyched.
0:34.0	I've been listening to all of them, so it's fun to be a part of it.
0:37.0	Well, we love having you here.
0:40.0	And Curtis has been game to become part of our adventures in screenwriting or
0:45.0	aka what we did this week or how was your week we'll let Lorian start
0:48.7	Lorian how was your week? So my week was great I just came back from a week vacation slash family trip in Paris and I've been thinking a lot about connection and connection with other people.
1:01.0	Someone in the TSL Facebook page heard me talk on the show about
1:04.9	how he's going to go to Paris and so she reached out to me to set up a TSL meetup in
1:09.3	Paris which was very cool and very exciting and people came from all over and met each other and I got to meet
1:15.6	them and it was really fun and I had a lot of big rosé because that's how the waiter asked me
1:20.4	do you want the little rosé or the big rosé and I said big rosé and then another
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