Act Two Podcast

By Tasha Huo & Josh Hallman

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Behind-the-Scenes of the Business and Craft of professional Screenwriting.

Episode Date
5 Tips on Telling a Compelling Story
Dec 08, 2025
Living Outside LA, Pitching Update, Mighty Nein - Plus: Are You Excited?
Dec 01, 2025
How to Get Unstuck in Your Writing: Screenwriting Tips that Actually Work
Nov 25, 2025
Writing THE MIGHTY NEIN: Interview with Showrunner Tasha Huo
Nov 17, 2025
Holiday Gifts -- What to get Reps and Producers (REPOST)
Nov 10, 2025
Staying Relevant: How to Have a Long Career as a Screenwriter
Nov 03, 2025
How to Write Great Villains | Halloween Special for Screenwriters
Oct 27, 2025
Ready or Not? How You Know Your Script is Ready
Oct 21, 2025
Networking Dos and Don’ts & Are You Excited: October 2025 Edition
Oct 13, 2025
Write Better Dialogue: Tasha Huo's Secret Hack
Oct 06, 2025
How do you write for animation? Interview with Francisco Angones (THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA, DUCK TALES)
Sep 29, 2025
Which Screenwriter Personality Are You?
Sep 22, 2025
Are You Excited?: September 2025 Edition + TWIW
Sep 15, 2025
Writing Action and Staying Relevant with Derek Kolstad (JOHN WICK, NOBODY)
Sep 08, 2025
How Agents Work for Screenwriters: David Boxerbaum (Partner, Verve)
Sep 02, 2025
How to Multitask as a Screenwriter: Balancing Multiple Projects
Aug 26, 2025
Are Pro Screenwriters Just Like Pro Athletes?
Aug 18, 2025
Writing RED SONJA: From Script to Screen with Tasha Huo
Aug 11, 2025
Is San Diego Comic-Con good for Screenwriters? + Are You Excited?: August Edition
Aug 04, 2025
Are You Excited?: July 2025 Edition
Jul 28, 2025
Social Media in your Screenwriting Career: Interview w/ Nic Curcio and Kristen Tepper
Jul 21, 2025
Where to Spend Time: IP or Spec?
Jul 14, 2025
MAILBAG: Ready to Send Your Script? Writer’s Groups, Pitching & More
Jul 08, 2025
Animated to Live Action Adaptation: LILO & STITCH and HTTYD (Part 2)
Jun 30, 2025
Animated to Live Action Adaptation: LILO & STITCH and HTTYD (Part 1)
Jun 23, 2025
When Life Happens, How to Keep Writing
Jun 16, 2025
RE-RELEASE: How to Stay in Screenwriting Shape
Jun 09, 2025
Are You Excited? JUNE 2025 EDITION
Jun 02, 2025
Top Tips for Aspiring Screenwriters
May 26, 2025
A Writer's Tools: The Oversized Sketchpad
May 19, 2025
8 Famous Improv Moments Writers Can Learn From
May 12, 2025
Know Your Story
May 05, 2025
A Screenwriter's Self-Talk Cycle
Apr 29, 2025
Writing for the Audience (and not sell out)
Apr 21, 2025
Framing Devices: What They Are and When They Work
Apr 14, 2025
How to Advocate for Yourself
Apr 08, 2025
How to Get Repped (REPOST)
Apr 01, 2025
Starting Your Story Through Location
Mar 24, 2025
A Physical Therapist on Writers' Pains with Melody Garcia
Mar 17, 2025
Should You Outline?
Mar 10, 2025
Why Now? - What It Means, How to Answer It
Mar 03, 2025
The Oscars 2025 Episode! W/ Dave Levinson
Feb 25, 2025
MAILBAG: Pilots, Day Jobs, Meetings, and More!
Feb 17, 2025
The Screenwriter’s Brand: Find Your Lane
Feb 10, 2025
One Room. Lots of Drama. Writing Contained Movies w/ Dave Levinson
Feb 03, 2025
Writing To "Cheer Moments"
Jan 27, 2025
Writing in a Crisis
Jan 20, 2025
Los Angeles Fire Wellness Check-In
Jan 13, 2025
2025 Goals (Part 2)
Jan 07, 2025
2025 Goals (Part 1)
Dec 31, 2024
Nolan Corn
Dec 24, 2024
The Holiday Edition: Blacklist Winners, Holiday Gifts, Staying Productive
Dec 16, 2024
Christmas Genre Mashups: Why They Work
Dec 10, 2024
Is a Work/Life Balance possible as a Screenwriter?
Dec 03, 2024
How to Turn Meetings into Opportunities
Nov 25, 2024
The Training Montage
Nov 18, 2024
Mailbag: Call to Action vs. Inciting Incident, Adapting IP, and more!
Nov 11, 2024
Chekhov's Gun in Screenwriting
Nov 04, 2024
The Best Horror Sequels!
Oct 28, 2024
Horror Rules & Mystery w/ Joe Russo and Dave Levinson
Oct 21, 2024
Script Changes, Tomb Raider, and Q&A Galore
Oct 14, 2024
TOMB RAIDER Q&A with Showrunner Tasha Huo
Oct 07, 2024
Get Your Tomb Raider Questions & 8 Sequence Story Structure (Repost)
Sep 30, 2024
No Writing Path Is The Same
Sep 23, 2024
Being Flexible without Compromising,
Sep 17, 2024
Hate Writing, or Yourself? How to Stay Motivated at a Low Point
Sep 10, 2024
The TV Writer's Room: Writing a Script
Sep 02, 2024
Interview with Joe Russo: From Writing to Release of the ensemble horror movie THE INHERITANCE
Aug 26, 2024
(Don't) Write What You Know
Aug 19, 2024
Does your script have a Central Question?
Aug 12, 2024
San Diego Comic-Con for Writers and the Summer Blockbuster
Aug 06, 2024
RE-RELEASE: Breaking Down BRAVE with Producer & Manager, Michele Wolkoff
Jul 29, 2024
Mailbag: How to Write Professional Dialogue, How to Write Different Genres, and more!
Jul 22, 2024
TWIW - Being an Authentic Writer, Are Managers Staying Away from New Clients?, Beverly Hills Cop, and More!
Jul 15, 2024
Are you dedicated to Screenwriting? Let's find out.
Jul 08, 2024
The Keys to a Successful (and long) Screenwriting Career
Jul 01, 2024
Have you hit your goals? -- 2024 Mid-Year Goals Check-In
Jun 24, 2024
You Just Got Notes: What Now?
Jun 17, 2024
Interview with Script Pipeline’s Matt Misetich
Jun 10, 2024
Career post AIR: Interview with Alex Convery
Jun 03, 2024
Fan Fiction as a Road to Screenwriting: Interview with Keely MacDonald (AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER)
May 27, 2024
The Act Two Mixer, and How to Have a Successful Writer's Group
May 21, 2024
TWIW & the Act Two Mixer Announcement
May 13, 2024
Screenwriting Lingo
May 06, 2024
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 8 - Things Execs Say)
Apr 29, 2024
Internal Dialogue in Screenwriting - Do or Don't?
Apr 22, 2024
What to Write Next?
Apr 15, 2024
TWIW: When to Take the Note, the Pitching Tiers and More!
Apr 08, 2024
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Apr 02, 2024
Networking and Making Connections
Mar 25, 2024
When To Take The Note
Mar 18, 2024
Secret to the Spec Sale: Interview with Daniel Kunka (Retake)
Mar 11, 2024
The 2024 Oscars Episode
Mar 04, 2024
The Agent Series with Mark Hartogsohn: What is a Lit Agent and How to Get One?
Feb 26, 2024
Journey from Pitch to (Not) Getting the Job
Feb 19, 2024
Fireside Chat: Manager-Writer Conflict and the Problem of the Stubborn Writer
Feb 12, 2024
How to Cut Pages
Feb 05, 2024
Taking an Idea to Outline
Jan 29, 2024
Getting Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable
Jan 23, 2024
How to Combat (and Defeat) Imposter Syndrome
Jan 15, 2024
How to Nail a General or Rep Meeting
Jan 08, 2024
New Year. New Goals. 2024!
Jan 01, 2024
’Tis the Season: Why Christmas Movies Work
Dec 18, 2023
Filmmaking Tips from James Mangold (LOGAN)
Dec 11, 2023
TWIW: Party Recap, When a Short Story Has No Hook, and How to Make Your General Work for You
Dec 04, 2023
Finding Clarity of Concept in Your Pilot
Nov 27, 2023
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: LA Event & Patreon Launch
Nov 22, 2023
Breaking Down Pixar’s BRAVE with Producer & Manager, Michele Wolkoff
Nov 20, 2023
TWIW: Why Relationships Matter, When to Restructure, How to Think Outside the Box
Nov 14, 2023
Ways to Tackle a 2nd Draft
Nov 06, 2023
Building Dread: Top 5 Horror Films w/ Special Guest Dave Levinson
Oct 30, 2023
How to Get Repped
Oct 23, 2023
Where to Find Inspiration
Oct 16, 2023
The Importance of Self-Care
Oct 09, 2023
The Essential Steps to Writing a Pilot Outline
Oct 02, 2023
Finding Humanity in Your Villain
Sep 25, 2023
Rethinking How to Adapt IP
Sep 18, 2023
5 Stages of Spec Writing
Sep 12, 2023
Breakdown of Act One: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Sep 04, 2023
How to Be a Writer on Set
Aug 29, 2023
Interview with Jeff Howard (HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, MIDNIGHT MASS)
Aug 21, 2023
Screenwriting Tips from INDIANA JONES
Aug 14, 2023
Interview with Alyssa Alvarado: AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Aug 08, 2023
Summer Blockbusters: Midpoint Check-In
Jul 31, 2023
Interview with Dan Kunka: ARBITRATION
Jul 24, 2023
J.J. Abrams’s Mystery Box
Jul 17, 2023
FLASH and INDIANA JONES
Jul 10, 2023
Interview with Scott Glassgold: Selling Your Short Story
Jul 03, 2023
Summer 2023 Blockbusters!
Jun 27, 2023
TWIW: Spiderverse, ”Burn It Down” and AI
Jun 20, 2023
Tips for Writing a Short Film
Jun 12, 2023
What is Arbitration?
Jun 06, 2023
WGA Strike Vibes on the Picket
May 30, 2023
How to Stay in Screenwriting Shape
May 22, 2023
How Screenwriters Get Paid
May 16, 2023
WGA Strike (Week 1)
May 08, 2023
TWIW: Mario, 3 Writer Personalities, and LA Writer Meet-Ups
May 01, 2023
Industry Terms: Part II
Apr 24, 2023
Industry Terms (Part I)
Apr 17, 2023
How to Have a Successful Writer’s Group
Apr 11, 2023
How to Write a Heist
Apr 04, 2023
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Screenwriting
Mar 27, 2023
The Hustle
Mar 20, 2023
TWIW: Selling in Animation, Spec Sales, and Learning Writing from Actors
Mar 13, 2023
Nicole Ramberg Part II: Her Path To The Black List
Mar 06, 2023
Interview with Paul Bae: Screenwriter to Podcaster to Screenwriter
Feb 28, 2023
TWIW: Targeted Note-Giving and What a Screenwriting Career Actually Looks Like
Feb 21, 2023
Pacing in an Action Sequence
Feb 14, 2023
10 Signs of a Great Screenplay
Feb 07, 2023
Screenwriting Skills that ARE NOT Writing
Feb 01, 2023
Finding & Securing IP: Interview with Steve Desmond (KNOCK AT THE CABIN)
Jan 24, 2023
TWIW: Keep the Momentum Going
Jan 17, 2023
New Year. New Goals.
Jan 03, 2023
Your IP Responsibilities
Dec 27, 2022
Spirited and Writing the Christmas Movie
Dec 20, 2022
Wrapping up for the Holidays as a Screenwriter
Dec 13, 2022
A Dialogue on Dialogue
Dec 06, 2022
Securing IP, General Meetings, and Pitching! (Mailbag)
Nov 29, 2022
Crafting a Likable Protagonist
Nov 21, 2022
TWIW: Stealing from other Movies, and Getting Unstuck in Revisions
Nov 15, 2022
TWIW: What is Hip-Pocketing and What Makes a Good Showrunner?
Nov 08, 2022
So You’re Being Rewritten...
Oct 31, 2022
A conversation with the Writer of King Richard: Zach Baylin
Oct 24, 2022
The Romance Episode
Oct 09, 2022
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 7 - Idea to Pitch)
Oct 03, 2022
Fireside Chat: How to Break into the Industry
Sep 26, 2022
8 Sequence Story Structure
Sep 19, 2022
This Week in Writing
Sep 12, 2022
This Week in Writing
Sep 05, 2022
Self-Advocating: How and Why?
Aug 29, 2022
The Art of Adaptation: Interview w/ Christopher Yost (THOR: RAGNAROK, COWBOY BEPOP)
Aug 22, 2022
Unhealthy Writer Thoughts
Aug 14, 2022
Meet Cutes: Pride & Prejudice to Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Aug 08, 2022
TWIW: Imposter Syndrome, Pitching with Intention and Taking Your Shot
Aug 01, 2022
What is Showrunning?: Interview with BEL-AIR Co-Showrunner, Rasheed Newson
Jul 25, 2022
Taika Waititi’s 10 Screenwriting Tips
Jul 18, 2022
First Day in a Writers Room
Jul 11, 2022
Live Mock Notes Session
Jul 03, 2022
This Week in Writing
Jun 26, 2022
Transitioning from Writer to Showrunner & Director: Interview w/ Steven DeKnight
Jun 20, 2022
What’s the Theme? -- Top Gun: Maverick
Jun 13, 2022
Writing With A Partner: Ben Lustig & Jake Thornton
Jun 08, 2022
Taking an Idea to Script
May 30, 2022
5 Must-Haves for Writing Action Sequences
May 23, 2022
Being a Blacklist Writer: Q&A with Alex Convery
May 16, 2022
The Work/Life Balance with David H. Steinberg
May 09, 2022
4 Common Notes and How to Revise Them
May 02, 2022
How to Start an Adaptation
Apr 25, 2022
Tony Gilroy’s 7 Steps to Writing an Original
Apr 18, 2022
Best Pixar Movies and TWIW
Apr 11, 2022
How We Create Characters
Apr 04, 2022
We Should Talk About Nepotism...
Mar 28, 2022
When to Move On...
Mar 21, 2022
Having Etiquette As A Screenwriter...
Mar 14, 2022
Pitching Is Terrible: The Series (Part 6 -- How to Prep like Steve Jobs)
Mar 07, 2022
Script Club: ENDING THINGS by Kevin Sullivan
Feb 28, 2022
The Manager Life: Interview w/ John Zaozirny of Bellevue Prods.
Feb 21, 2022
How to Set the Tone in Meetings
Feb 14, 2022
How to Revise Your Script
Feb 07, 2022
Heroes & Villains: The Pirate, the Crooked Cop, the Wicked Step-Mother, and the Adventurer
Jan 31, 2022
Pitching Is Terrible: The Series (Part 5 -- The Rewrite Pitch)
Jan 24, 2022
MacGuffins: To Use Or Not To Use?
Jan 17, 2022
Breaking Into The Industry: Q&A With Mickey Fisher
Jan 10, 2022
New Year, New Writing Goals
Jan 02, 2022
Taking A Break Over The Break?
Dec 26, 2021
The Setup: Home Alone vs. Home Sweet Home Alone
Dec 20, 2021
The Breakdown: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (Better than the OG?)
Dec 13, 2021
Don‘t Please Your Producer (from a Producer)
Dec 06, 2021
This Week in Writing
Nov 29, 2021
Holiday Gifts -- What to get Reps and Producers
Nov 21, 2021
The Breakdown: Writing Action Setpieces
Nov 15, 2021
How to Handle Submissions
Nov 08, 2021
Screenwriting Twitter Topics
Oct 31, 2021
The Pitch: Film to TV
Oct 25, 2021
Finding Your Next Idea
Oct 18, 2021
When to Work for Free?
Oct 11, 2021
Tasha Interviews Josh: AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Oct 04, 2021
Josh Interviews Tasha: SHOWRUNNING
Sep 27, 2021
Fireside Chat
Sep 20, 2021
Writer‘s Tool Chest: The Notecard
Sep 13, 2021
What A Good Relationship With Your Reps Looks Like
Sep 06, 2021
This Week in Writing
Aug 30, 2021
Daily Life of a TV Staff Writer with Monty Bennett
Aug 23, 2021
Anatomy of an Action Setpiece
Aug 16, 2021
The Note Giver's 10 Commandments
Aug 09, 2021
To Study Film, or Not? with Special Guest: James Stoteraux
Aug 01, 2021
Staying Proactive And Being An Advocate For Yourself.
Jul 26, 2021
The Open Writing Assignment (OWA): Devil or Deliverer?
Jul 19, 2021
This Week in Writing
Jul 12, 2021
How to Stay Organized
Jul 04, 2021
This Week in Writing
Jun 28, 2021
The Art of Adaptation with Special Guest: Evan Spiliotopoulos
Jun 20, 2021
Film Writing vs. TV Writing with Special Guest David Levinson
Jun 14, 2021
Fireside Chat: This Is Us
Jun 07, 2021
Pitching Is Terrible: The Series (Part 4 -- The Ten Minutes After You Pitch)
May 31, 2021
The Note Taker's 10 Commandments
May 24, 2021
WHY MOVIES WORK: Nobody, Mortal Kombat and The Mitchells vs. the Machines
May 17, 2021
Development Hell
May 10, 2021
Ghostwriting -- The Best Kept Secret in Screenwriting
May 03, 2021
The Walt Disney Television Writing Program: Interview with 2020 alums, Adrian Viña & Allyson Philobos
Apr 25, 2021
Secret to the Spec Sale: Interview with Daniel Kunka
Apr 19, 2021
Fireside Chat
Apr 12, 2021
How to Have a "Voice"
Apr 04, 2021
Snyder Cut & Mythology
Mar 29, 2021
ANNOUNCING: Act Two Mentorship Program with Coverfly (with special guest, Tom Dever, Head of Writer Success at Coverfly)
Mar 22, 2021
The Breakdown: TED LASSO Pilot -- Character Intros
Mar 22, 2021
Documents Writers Write (that aren't the script)
Mar 08, 2021
Process: Getting the Job - Tomb Raider and Red Sonja
Mar 01, 2021
Fireside Chat
Feb 22, 2021
The Art of Act One: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Feb 14, 2021
Three Act Structure
Feb 08, 2021
Screenwriting Life: A New Hope
Feb 01, 2021
WGA 101: Interview with Ben Shiffrin, WGA Captain
Jan 25, 2021
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Jan 18, 2021
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 3 -- Visuals in a Pitch)
Jan 11, 2021
Get Competitive: Interview w/ bRock Newell, 2018 Screencraft Fellowship Winner
Jan 04, 2021
New Year's Resolutions: How to Make (Writing) Goals
Dec 28, 2020
The Breakdown: LETHAL WEAPON (Demystifying a Legend)
Dec 21, 2020
The Breakdown: Back to the Future (Act 3 - Obstacles & Pay-Offs)
Dec 14, 2020
The Breakdown: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Act Two - The Art of Cause & Effect)
Dec 06, 2020
First Script is Done. Now what?
Nov 30, 2020
The Breakdown: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Act One)
Nov 23, 2020
Get Competitive: Guest Interview w/ Nicole Ramberg, 2020 Screencraft Competition Winner
Nov 16, 2020
A Million Ways: Guest Interview w/ Screenwriter Corey Deshon
Nov 08, 2020
How to Have a Good Relationship with Your Reps
Nov 02, 2020
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 2 -- Formatting Your Pitch)
Oct 28, 2020
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 1 -- What, How and Why do you Pitch?)
Oct 19, 2020
The Confident Writer, an Oxymoron
Oct 13, 2020
Working Hard or Hardly Working? -- A Day in the Life of a Screenwriter
Oct 05, 2020
A Screenwriter Walks into a Festival...
Sep 28, 2020
General Meetings: The Couch & Water Tour
Sep 21, 2020
The Job: TV Staff Writing with Nneka Gerstle
Sep 14, 2020
HARD KILL: Script to Screen with Joe Russo
Sep 07, 2020
The Art of the Spec Script
Aug 31, 2020
Welcome Home: Blank Page to Red Carpet with David Levinson
Aug 24, 2020
We're Back! Post-Quarantine for Screenwriters
Aug 24, 2020
Getting Repped -- All the Ways to Get a Manager or Agent
Aug 24, 2020
Introducing the ACT TWO Podcast
Aug 24, 2020