SCREENWRITER SPOTLIGHT #2: Kirk Moore
Kirk Moore is an NBC Writers on the Verge (2014–2015) Fellow. He was staffed on ABC’s critically acclaimed American Crime, and is currently writing on Netflix’s teen drama series 13 Reasons Why, based on the YA novel by the same name.
Lee: When did you start writing? Did you always know that TV was where you wanted to be, or did that reveal itself later? And if so, how?
Kirk: I started writing in high school not long after a personal tragedy. When I was 14, I lost all vision in my right eye after a freak accident. I wasn’t able to do much physical activity for months, so I began writing angry poetry and short stories. Those poems and stories later became a one-man show and my first original theatre production ...
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