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It feels like only yesterday that I was drafting last year’s Emmy’s post. And now it’s time to honor a whole new set of women in 2025! This year, women artists in front of and behind the camera took home plenty of gold. From awards like Best Actress to Outstanding Writing, we watched new and old faces win big at the 2025 Emmy Awards.… read more.
Last Tuesday, the Television Academy finally released the much-anticipated list of 2025’s Emmy nominees. With more television and limited series at our fingertips than ever before, this year’s list is one filled to the brim with high caliber talent—especially where women artists are concerned. From familiar favorites to industry ingénues, tonight, there are plenty of women artists to toast from this year’s season.… read more.
Annie Baker is a writer of silences.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, recently turned screenwriter and director, has become associated with choreographed moments of quiet. She instructs on how to map her ‘pauses’ and ‘silences’ down to the second. She delineates the difference between “a happy pause in which [characters] realize they’ve broken the tension, and then an awkward pause following that happy pause,” using silence the way other writers do dialogue.… read more.
“Sophie Willis” (Julianne Nicholson) is not like any of the other women of the town of Salty Creek (SC), and she has never cared what they think of her. The film opens with Sophie on the calm water in her boat. She is fishing for blue crabs to sell in town. Her confidence and comfort while on the water let us know that here, on the water, Sophie is in her element.… read more.