Summer Quarter, 2015
Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. - noon
What Makes Great Television even...Greater! In order for a series to truly succeed, it needs to continue to engage its audience and endure until its true finale. We’ll shine a light on the best of television and ask why long-lasting programs worked and how they impacted their audience. We’ll also return to the spark, tracking how a popular series was inspired and how it maintains its current spot on the television map.
Brett Neveuis a lecturerin Northwestern’s Department of Radio, Television & Film as well as in the Graduate Writing for the Stage & Screen program. He has written multiple television pilots and has pitched scripted shows to networks such as Showtime, HBO and AMC. Film productions include the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures, the feature The Earl with Intermission Productions and the upcoming feature Atari Christmas.
Recent theatre productions include Red Bud with Signal Ensemble, Detective Partner Hero Villain with SkyPilot Theatre Company and Strawdog Theatre Company as well as The Opponent with A Red Orchid Theatre/Bisno Productions/59e59. Past theatre work includes productions with The Royal Court Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company in London; The Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, The House Theatre, The Inconvenience, The Side Project, TimeLine Theatre Company, A Red Orchid Theatre and American Theatre Company in Chicago. A Sundance Institute Ucross Fellow, Brett is also a recipient of the Marquee Award from Chicago Dramatists, the Ofner Prize for New Work, the Emerging Artist Award from The League of Chicago Theatres, an After Dark Award for Outstanding Musical (Old Town) and has developed plays with companies including The Atlantic Theatre Company and The New Group in New York and The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. He is a resident-alum of Chicago Dramatists, a proud ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre and an alumni member of the Center Theatre Group’s Playwrights’ Workshop in Los Angeles. Brett has been commissioned by The Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre Company,The Goodman Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, Writers’ Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, Northlight Theatre and has had several of his plays published through Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing and Nick Hern Publishing.