Dorothy Fortenberry and the Art of Screenwriting

The Emmy-nominated producer/screenwriter of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Apple TV’s Extrapolations will talk about what it takes to make great television about important issues—and how her Catholic faith and her passion for combating climate change inform her career and her craft.

Dorothy Fortenberry will draw on an assortment of clips from shows she has written and produced to explain her approach and prompt questions from the audience.

CRC director David Gibson will moderate the conversation.

Dorothy Fortenberry is a playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. She is the 2021 laureate of America Media’s George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters for outstanding work in the category of fiction writer or dramatist. A television writer and producer, she has worked on Extrapolations for Apple TV, The 100 for the CW Network, and The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu. Fortenberry’s essays have appeared in Commonweal Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has won the Producers Guild of America award and two Writers Guild of America awards.