Go Into The Story Interview: Kate Marks

My interview with the 2020 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.

Kate Marks wrote the original screenplay “The Cow of Queens” which won a 2020 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Kate about her creative background, her award-winning script, the craft of screenwriting, and what winning the Nicholl Award has meant to her.

Here are links to the entire 6-part which has run this week.

Part 1: “I always loved movies, but it never occurred to me that I could make them.”

Part 2: “There was something about the image of the cow running for its life that collided with fighting to keep my dad alive and suddenly I could see the movie.”

Part 3: “I wanted to show their closeness and I also wanted to capture the ridiculous extremes of cancer. There is a lot of comedy in the human body falling apart.”

Part 4: “I always saw the cow as the trickster, the one that shakes things up and helps the characters do what they need to do.”

Part 5: “The idea doesn’t become a movie until I find an unusual container or vehicle to tell that story with.”

Part 6: “Don’t buy into those tropes that say writing should be torture. Let your writing process be delightful and it will liberate your voice.”

Kate is repped by The Kaplan Stahler Agency and The Radmin Company.

Her website: LINK.

For my interviews with every Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner since 2012, go here.

For my interviews with Black List writers, go here.