Interview: Patty Jones (2013 Nicholl Winner)

Patty Jones’ original screenplay “Joe Banks” won the Vancouver based writer a 2013 Nicholl fellowship.

Here are links to the five installments of the entire interview:

Part 1: “I was a pretty heavy reader. Even if you fall off it when you’re a teenager and you get into other pursuits and bad behavior, the stuff you read as a kid forever resonates.”

Part 2: “I literally woke up one morning. It was 7:00 AM and I’m lying there in bed. I said to my boyfriend, ‘I think I have an idea.’”

Part 3: “And I quickly realized that I had gotten myself into something when I started the character of Joe and I thought, ‘You better keep this up.’ There were moments where I thought, first of all, ‘Can I come up with any more euphemisms for testicles? Can I come up with more?’”

Part 4: “Being in Canada felt a bit weird, and I wondered when they put the list out, when they announced the finalists, and I could see the word ‘Canada’ beside my name I thought, Will there be a stigma, will there be a bias?”

Part 5: “Writing dialogue is insanely fun, and I believe in it. I believe what I’m writing. I believe these characters exist.”

Patty is repped by Benderspink.

Twitter: @heypattyjones.