A CONVERSATION WITH PHIL LORD

Phil Lord, the Producer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, talks to Byron about his script SHADE OF THE GRAPEFRUIT TREE and his 2021 Nicholl Fellowship win. I watched Byron write this script over the last year. So much of the script is based on his real life trauma it wasn’t easy to write. It was…

“ROUGH CUT” SLATED FOR deadCENTER

  A few months ago I sat at a bar with a fake date, having a few real drinks, and laughing a lot at my own jokes. I was an extra in a scene being filmed by Outsiders Productions as a favor to one of my friends, Reina. That day I decided to do something…