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“We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.”

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Deborah Kaplan, born on November 11, 1970, is a talented screenwriter known for her profound character development and engaging storytelling. Her works have brought unforgettable movie experiences to audiences worldwide. more

“I don't know if it [Mary and Jane] is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.”

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“It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].”

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“I have the Google alert for marijuana articles come on my phone everyday. There are some interesting ones that have come up that I file away.”

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“There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.”

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“There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.”

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“I think at a certain point we a little bit forgot that it was a pot show. I think I said something to Harry [Elfont], around Episode 7 [of mary and Jane], I was like, "We have a pot show. Nobody is smoking any weed." There is literally a shot in the season finale where everybody lights up at the same time. I was like, "I feel like we are not honoring our concept." It just became a show. It became a show about these two girls doing this crazy thing and getting into all these adventures and it was really not about the weed.”

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Author:Deborah Kaplan

“Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as fixed points in time We're going from 1931 to 2016 and using these shows to talk about what the typical show was like for an ensemblist at the time; did this show change anything about that job, while it was changing everything about the way theatre was written and produced and made?”

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“We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.”

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“If things come up, we can say, "We're not ready for this, let's move some things around."”

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“We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We don't have any benchmarks that we have to hit. Our benchmarks are ones that we have set.”

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Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone

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