Barry Brodsky Red Rock Lit Fest Interview w Agatha Morrell 10-19-2021

Barry Brodsky currently teaches Screenwriting and Playwriting at Boston University Film School and Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing. He also taught Screenwriting at Emerson College for 19 years and taught in the Theatre Dept. at U.Mass-Boston for 9 years. He taught Greek Drama, Playwriting, and essay writing to Boston high school students for five years in the Urban Scholars program at U.Mass-Boston.

Barry is a former recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation (now the Mass. Cultural Council). He was born and raised in Boston, served three years in the Army, and also directed an educational program for military veterans at U.Mass-Boston. Barry earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science at U.Mass-Boston and his Master’s in Fine Arts in Theatre at Brandeis University. He’s lived in Swampscott since 1998 with his wife Nancy Meacham, a public-school educator in Salem, and his daughter Kate, who graduated Swampscott High in 2015, U-Mass Amherst in 2019, and now lives and works in Western Mass. growing and selling native plants.

https://lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/barry-brodsky

Learn more and register for the Red Rock Literary Festival on Nov 6 & 7, 2021 at
https://www.reacharts.org/event-4516540

Original music: Phil’s Tune by Larry Power

Editing by Lajla Dale