Ep 196: Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, Amy Andelson, and Emily Meyer

First Draft Episode #196: Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith, Amy
Andelson, and Emily Meyer

Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith, Amy Andelson, and Emily Meyer are the team
behind Trinkets, the Netflix TV series based on Kiwi’s young
adult novel of the same name. Kiwi Smith is one half of the
screenwriting team behind films like 10 Things I Hate About You,
Legally Blonde, Ella Enchanted, and more, and the author of young
adult novels The Geography of Girlhood, and Trinkets. Amy
Andelson and Emily Meyer are the writing team behind films like
Step Up 3D, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, and the young adult
novel Layover, and they adapted Trinkets and are credited as
co-creators of the TV show.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode



Every listener should check out the first episode of First
Draft with Sarah Enni with Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer, when
we talked about her first novel, Layover




10 Things I Hate About You was shot at Stadium High School in
Tacoma, Wash.




Shooting Trinkets on location in Portland, Ore. was a way to
differentiate the show visually from glossier teen shows like
Riverdale, and evoke classic teen shows like My So-Called
Life




Awesomeness TV produced the show and helped shape the project
into a TV show




Writer and artist Alex Israel was singing Amy and Emily’s
praises to Kiwi for years before the three actually met




John McAlary, the casting director for Trinkets, said he saw
6,000 actors during the casting process for the show’s key
roles




Seeing Trinkets star Brianna Hildebrand sing on her Instagram
inspired Kiwi, Amy, and Emily to include singing as part of
her character




Actor Katrina Cunningham, who plays Sabine in Trinkets, and
is a performer as well and her music is featured in the show




Kiwi is currently writing “Party Girls” with long-time
co-writer Karen McCullah




End of the Fucking World and Russian Doll are TV series that
Kiwi thinks are ideal bingeable lengths for TV series




 
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