TEA TALK- MASTER OF THE WORD
MASTER OF THE WORD
Join BIFF Board Member Mary Mott for an intimate conversation with John Orloff, co-creator and screenwriter for MASTERS OF THE AIR and 2 episodes of BAND OF BROTHERS.
Mary Mott
Mary Mott began her twenty-five year career in advertising in New York and then San Francisco. She eventually moved on to Sun Valley, Idaho, where she continued her passion for writing through a weekly column and radio show. She also spearheaded the area’s first year-round performance theater and Shakespeare festival.
Ten years ago, she and husband Gordon fell in love with an old farmhouse and created a home in the Berkshires. Continuing her passion for writing, Mary moved into performing her words. She has done two one-woman shows in the Berkshires and Sun Valley. “From Where I Sit” in 2013 and “Butter to the Edges” in 2016.
Mary lives in Stockbridge with her husband Gordon, and dogs, Rosie and Lola.
John Orloff
John Orloff is an acclaimed American screenwriter known for creating and adapting complex stories in widely disparate genres. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on HBO’s BAND OF BROTHERS, as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his screenplay for A MIGHTY HEART – the Michael Winterbottom film based on the kidnapping and death of reporter Daniel Pearl produced by Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner. He’s spent much of the last decade researching, creating, writing, and producing MASTERS OF THE AIR, an epic nine-part miniseries executive produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, that chronicles the 100th Bomber Group’s odyssey in the European Theater of World War Two. The show stars Oscar nominees Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan, as well as Callum Tatum. Orloff is fourth generation Hollywood (his great-grandparents on one side were radio comedy team Fibber McGee and Molly) and grew up in LA, but he now lives by a river in the Berkshire mountains in western Massachusetts.
