Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay

Lorin Wertheimer

Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Lorin Wertheimer divided his time at MacDowell between three projects: rewriting his screenplay, What Was Lost; writing a nonfiction book, Going Global; and researching a play about school desegregation. His web series, Speedie Date, was nominated for a Webby Award for best dramatic seriesin 2010.

Studios

MacDowell

Lorin Wertheimer worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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