Izolda Trakhtenberg, Storyteller

Playwright, Author, Director, Podcaster

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Category: movies

  • On Touchstones – We need them in storytelling and in life

    Everything in my life has been coming back to relevance. As I develop this new phase of my life, I am trimming away anything that doesn’t serve me. I have modified my patterns of behavior, thought modes, and emotional triggers. My motto is: If it doesn’t serve me, it goes. That perspective makes things easier,…

  • The Mother of Communication? – lessons on writing, talking, and connection

    Yesterday, at Balticon, I had the honor of sitting on a panel that discussed how to adapt fiction to stage or screen. One of the questions the moderator asked was to define the nuts and bolts of doing that sort of adaptation. One of the other panel members said that you needed to only the…

  • Thoughts on Remakes

    So, I’m of two minds. On the one hand I am pretty tired of the endless reboots/updates/revivals in TV, film, and stage. Yegads people, are there no more new ideas when you start thinking of remaking CHiPs? It feels like the people who put this stuff out there have decided that they can’t really take…