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Ep. 314 | From The West Wing to The Diplomat: Debora Cahn's Masterclass in Storytelling
This week on The Screenwriting Life, Meg LeFauve and Joe Forte sit down with Debora Cahn, creator and showrunner of Netflix's The Diplomat, for a fascinating, candid, and deeply insightful conversation about the craft of writing television.
With an extraordinary career that includes The West Wing, Homeland, Grey's Anatomy, and Fosse/Verdon, Cahn has spent decades mastering the art of sophisticated, character-driven storytelling. Now, she takes us behind the scenes of The Diplomat to reveal how the series came to life, how its most shocking twists were developed, and why the show's complicated…
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