ON STORY

#1501 On The Last of US: A Conversation with Craig Mazin
Airdate: 4/26/2025
This week on ON STORY, Emmy-winning creator and showrunner Craig Mazin joins us to discuss his process of adapting the smash-hit video game into the episodic television drama series, THE LAST OF US, and how he balanced humor and humanity within an apocalyptic world.

#1502 A Conversation with Kathleen Kennedy
Airdate: 5/3/2025
This week on ON STORY, producing powerhouse Kathleen Kennedy joins us to reflect on her vibrant career producing countless classic films such as E.T, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Schindler's List, and The Bridges of Madison County as Kennedy imparts stories and inspiration from her decades of experience.

#1503 On The Making of Sing Sing
Airdate: 5/10/2025
This week on ON STORY, screenwriter-producer Clint Bentley and producer Monique Walton join us to discuss the making of the independent, prison-drama feature, SING SING and their process developing a script inspired by a real-life rehabilitation through the arts program and their mission to depict an authentic incarcerated experience.

#1504 Script to Screen: American Psycho
Airdate: 5/17/2025
This week on ON STORY, we’re joined by screenwriter Guinevere Turner to discuss her process writing the infamous, slasher film AMERICAN PSYCHO. Turner deep-dives into her process translating the original novel and satirizing 80s culture, while striking a tonal balance of black-comedy and horror.

#1505 On Vida: A Conversation with Tanya Saracho
Airdate: 5/24/2025
This week on ON STORY, creator and showrunner Tanya Saracho delves into her creative process behind VIDA, the family comedy-drama series which follows two sisters who return home to Los Angeles after the death of their mother. Saracho discusses interweaving issues of gentrification, sexuality, and fraught family dynamics into compelling TV.

#1506 Script to Screen: Twisters
Airdate: 5/31/2025
This week on ON STORY, screenwriter Mark L. Smith joins us for a conversation on writing the blockbuster, disaster-thriller film TWISTERS and his process crafting plot-driving action and compelling conflicts to hook audiences in his stand-alone sequel to the 1996 film

#1507 On the Making of They Cloned Tyrone
Airdate: 6/7/2025
This week on ON STORY, writer-producer Tony Rettenmaier and director Juel Taylor discuss their genre-bending, debut feature, THEY CLONED TYRONE and how the writer-director duo seamlessly incorporated socio-political commentary into the science fiction, comedy-mystery film.

#1508 Script to Screen: Battlestar Galactica
Airdate: 6/14/2025
This week on ON STORY, we’re joined by writer and creator Ronald D. Moore to discuss the process from concept to completion on his celebrated, epic science fiction series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.

#1509 A Conversation with Meg LeFauve
Airdate: 6/21/2025
This week on ON STORY, we’re joined by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Meg Le Fauve for a masterclass in crafting emotional storytelling, compelling characters, and intricate worlds. LaFauve outlines her path to Pixar and her work on the studios’ blockbusters INSIDE OUT and INSIDE OUT 2.


#1510 On Shōgun: A Conversation with Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo
Airdate: 6/28/2025
This week on ON STORY, writers and creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo speak on their process crafting the Emmy award-winning historical drama, SHŌGUN. From meticulous adaptations to treacherous battle scenes, the duo outlines how to captivate an audience.

#1511 Script to Screen: Bojack Horseman
Airdate: 7/5/2025
This week on ON STORY, we’re joined by Joe Lawson and Alison Flierl, two writers from the beloved adult, animated comedy BOJACKHORSEMAN. Lawson and Flierl discuss their work writing for seasons two and three and techniques behind exploring the human condition through an anthropomorphic horse.

#1512 On Challengers: A Conversation with Justin Kuritzkes
Airdate: 7/12/2025
This week on ON STORY, screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes joins us for a conversation on his process writing the summer blockbuster, CHALLENGERS. Kuritzkes discusses creating high stakes in a grounded world that explores a tangled tale of friendship.

#1513 On YA Drama: A Conversation with Julie Plec
Airdate: 7/19/2025
This week on ON STORY, Julie Plec, the creator, showrunner and creative mind behind the lauded teen drama series, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, divulges the essentials for successful supernatural and her process molding a series and its many spinoffs that captivated a generation.


#1514 The Last Showgirl with GIa Coppola
Airdate: 7/26/2025
This week on ON STORY, director Gia Coppola joins us for a conversation on her latest feature, THE LAST SHOWGIRL. Coppola reflects upon working the film’s star-studded cast, including Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis, and how together, they depicted an inspiring story of change and transformation.

#1515 A Conversation with Rian Johnson
Airdate: 8/2/2025
This week on ON STORY, we’re joined by celebrated writing, producer, and director Rian Johnson for deep-dive into this genre-bending filmmaking career. Johnson discusses his creative process behind the KNIVES OUT franchise and the art of molding a great mystery.