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Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 1:03 a.m.

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Joe Gilford is an award-nominated screenwriter, screenwriting professor at NYU\'s Tisch School of the Arts and author of the screenwriting book Why Does The Screenwriter Cross The Road?.  He has been a filmmaker for the last 50 years. He writes screenplays, TV scripts and stage plays. He is also the winner of a New York Emmy, and has received two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants. Joe earned his BFA at NYU\'s Institute of Film & TV and spent a decade as a stage director in New York in the 1980s & \'90s.

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He is the son of actors Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee and In 2013, adapted their experiences as blacklisted actors in the 1950s into the critically acclaimed stage play Finks. It was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and Best New Play by the Off-Broadway Alliance, and is currently in development as a feature film.

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His latest feature screenplay Mob Town, released in theaters in 2019 and stars David Arquette. In 2005 he started StoryRescue.com which helps writers and storytellers at every level in screenwriting, playwriting, TV and fiction. He also teaches screenwriting at NYU\\u2019s Tisch school of the arts and recently put all of his experience and knowledge into the book Why Does the Screenwriter Cross the Road?\\u2026and other screenwriting secrets.

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CONTACT JOE GILFORD AND STORY RESCUE

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Website: https://www.storyrescue.com/

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jegilford/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.gilford

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CONTACT RON CECIL

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Website: https://www.roncecil.com/

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil

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CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808

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SHOW NOTES

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In this episode, our second conversation with Joe, we explore other aspects of his story. Joe grew up with parents who were both well known actors and who were eventually blacklisted. He started working in theater and film at a young age and has stayed in that world for a long time. He became a father, and while he kept writing, there came a time when he started focusing more on other aspects of his life. He started teaching, pulled his finances together and eventually got into a healthy romantic relationship. While he has continued selling screenplays, he has now reduced the anxiety in his life and is flourishing in a more full, supported way.

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