DARREN ANDREW NASH
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Where do you live (City, State, or Country)?
Lake forest, California.

Your script stood out among hundreds of others. What was the inspiration for your story and why did you write a script instead of a short story or a novel?
Although I recognize the historical complexities and highly charged emotions surrounding many current global events, the reality, for example, that at the time of this writing there are over a million children in Gaza who are suffering in indescribable conditions under a blockade of all food, water, medicine, and fuel for over two and a half months—as the world watches in horror— is unconscionably heartbreaking. What are we doing? Is this what mankind will allow to happen now? The Tomb is a humble but desperate attempt to cut through the complexities of modern life and discourse and center the voices of children—their urgent cries of despair. The piece invites us to meditate on and marvel at the courage and resilience of children enduring these heartbreaking, unspeakable horrors. The Tomb seeks to “hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature,” offering each of us an opportunity to explore and interrogate the limits of what we’re willing to bear witness to before we’ll be compelled to act. I felt the medium of film, and the perhaps specific and haunting imagery it can lend to us, might help assist in elucidating the macabre realities of these situations.

How long did it take you to write your script...and what is your writing process? Do you outline...use index cards...white board...or just start with FADE IN?
Four months.

What is your ultimate ambition as a writer?
To work as a full-time screenwriter and playwright.

Which film or television writers inspire you? Why?
Aaron Sorkin and Tony Kushner.

What’s your all-time favorite movie or television show?
Dead Poet’s Society.

What advice do you have for writers hoping to win a contest or place as a finalist as you have?
My advice would be to write something personal and meaningful to you.

What else are you working on that the world needs to know about? (be sure to include any links you want the world to check out)
I’m currently working on a new screenplay based on the true story of the massacre of striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado in the early twentieth century.