Susanna Fogel and David Iserson on Breaking In, Endurance, and the Reality of a Writing Life
For screenwriters of all levels, the film and television industry is often imagined as a neat sequence of milestones: getting read, getting staffed, selling a script, and moving steadily upward. The reality, as screenwriters Susanna Fogel and David Iserson describe it, is anything but that. In a comprehensive conversation about their careers, Fogel and Iserson […]
Ponies: How Susanna Fogel and David Iserson Turned Cold War Espionage Into a Modern Story of Female Friendship
Peacock’s Ponies (Persons Of No Interest according to the Master International Spy Manual) may be set in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage, but at its core, the television series on Peacock is something far more intimate: a story about female friendship at a moment of personal reckoning and redefining. Created by longtime collaborators […]
“Write Deeper Female Friendships” Susanna Fogel Talks ‘Booksmart’ & ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’
It’s been a busy time for writer-director & book author Susanna Fogel, especially with her female friendship screenplays for Booksmart and The Spy Who Dumped Me. She is currently directing the biopic Winner about former American intelligence specialist Reality Leigh Winner. Susanna caught up with Creative Screenwriting Magazine to discuss bringing her ideas to the screen and her […]
