212 | Outlander Writer/Producer Barbara Stepansky: How Winning The Nicholl Fellowship Changed Her Career

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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JOIN TSL WORKSHOPS FOR FREE: https://tslworkshops.circle.so/ Barbara Stepansky’s career is the culmination of years of incredibly hard work. In addition to winning the highly competitive Nicholl Fellowship, Barbara is a WGA-award winner for a TV movie, the head writer on a German-language Netflix show, and a writer/producer on Starz’s Outlander. Today’s conversation is all about how Barbara built her uniquely multi-faceted career.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.
0:08.0	And I'm Lorian McKenna and today we're chatting with Barbara Sapanski.
0:12.0	She is a head writer on Woman of the Dead, a Netflix or up series and a writer producer on the Sony Stars TV show Outlander.
0:21.0	Barbara is a WGA Award winner, a nickel fellow, and an award winning independent
0:26.7	film director.
0:28.1	She wrote Flint about the Flint Water Crisis for Sony Lifetime with Queen Latifah,
0:33.2	which was nominated for a Critics Choice
0:35.2	and won a WG Award.
0:37.4	Hi Barbara.
0:38.6	Hello, good to be here.
0:41.1	So good to see you. Yes, likewise. We can't wait to chat with. to be
0:45.0	talking about her career.
0:46.0	But before we do that, we're going to be talking about our weeks or what we like to call
0:50.6	Adventures in Screenwriting.
0:52.0	Loring will let you start.
0:53.2	How was your week?
0:54.8	My week was interesting.
0:56.4	I had to go out of town.
0:57.5	I also had to bring my daughter with me.
0:59.5	So I was in that place where I have a lot of work to do,
1:02.4	thinking that somehow I was going to get the work done.
1:05.4	But then once I got where I was realizing
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