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Jonathan Lisecki with Sarah Gertrude Shapiro

Jonathan Lisecki with Sarah Gertrude Shapiro

The creator of the best new TV show of the summer chats about her (long-gestating) overnight success.

Talkhouse Podcast

August 7, 201536m 10sExplicit

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Show Notes

On this latest episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, Gayby's writer­-director Jonathan Lisecki talks about the best new TV show of the summer, UnREAL, with Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, its co-­creator, writer and supervising producer. The pair discuss Shapiro's background, her inspirations, how she turned an award­-winning short film into a hit TV show in record time, getting over "the Lifetime of it all," and much more. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.