BPS 197: From Broadway to Hollywierd with Tony Winner Stephen Karam

Today on the show we have writer and director Stephen Karam. He is
the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans,  Sons of the
Prophet and Speech & Debate. For his work he’s received two
Drama Critics Circle Awards, an OBIE Award and is a two-time
Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Stephen recently directed his first feature film, a rethought
version of The Humans for A24 films, to be released in 2021.
 He wrote a film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull
starring Annette Bening, which was released by Sony Picture
Classics.

His adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard premiered on
Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season. Recent honors
include the inaugural Horton Foote Playwriting Award, the inaugural
Sam Norkin Drama Desk Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a
Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award,  and Hull-Warriner
Award.

Stephen and I have a great conversation on how he went from
Broadway to Hollywood, adapting his award-winning play to the big
screen, his creative process and much more.

Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania
family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in
lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start
to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director
Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Award-winning play, The Humans
explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds them
together.

Enjoy my conversation with Stephen Karam.

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