Poets & Writers Theater
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Middlemarch: The Series is a web series adaptation of George Eliot’s 1871 novel Middlemarch, written and directed by Rebecca Shoptaw, an undergraduate film student at Yale. Spanning seventy short episodes, the series is set in a contemporary fictional college in Connecticut and incorporates LGBTQ themes.
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Fatimah Asghar, whose debut poetry collection, If They Come For Us, was published in June by One World, talks with director Sam Bailey about the motivations behind their web series Brown Girls, which the cocreators will be adapting for HBO.
