Presents: Writing Adaptable IP

Join us for a conversation with writer and producer Michael Sonnenschein AB '94 about writing adaptable IP.

Michael Sonnenschein is currently writing and Executive Producing KIBERA POWER, an independently-financed crime/coming-of-age feature adapted from an upcoming New Yorker article, slated to shoot on location in Nairobi later this year. He began his writing career via the highly selective Walt Disney Writing Fellowship program, has staffed on one-hour dramas 90210 (CW), GRANITE FLATS (Netflix), and CRISIS (NBC), and developed and pitched pilots in partnership with several production companies and studios. Sonnenschein also works in international development. He launched and currently runs an anti-poverty research and seed financing project in Haiti supported by funding from philanthropic institutions and a fellowship from Emergent Ventures , a think tank designed for “entrepreneurs and brilliant minds with highly scalable ‘zero to one’ ideas for meaningfully improving society.”