Kevin LAVELLE
on Horror, Gothic & Adaptation
Jan. 27, 1:00-2:30pm on WebEx
From 1960 to 1964, schlock horror trailblazer Roger Corman filmed several Poe stories. L.A.-based Irish filmmaker and writer Kevin Lavelle, who worked on eleven films in Corman’s studio in 1990s Ireland, will join Mary Burke’s Gothic Novel graduate seminar for an online conversation on the porous boundaries between horror and Gothic and source text and film adaptation, for which we will consider Lavelle’s own film work and writings as well as Corman’s Poe. A graduate of the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, Lavelle has worked on film adaptations of Henry James's The Ghostly Rental and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, and was nominated for Best Editing at the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) Awards for Starfish. His television work includes the comedy drama series Aifric, which earned three consecutive IFTA Awards, and Irish national broadcasters RTÉ and TG4 commissioned him to write the short film Car Park and the dystopian thriller, The Line. His story, “Bury Me in The Garden” won Over the Edge's New Writer of The Year Award, and he was a 2021 Writer in Residence at the Hemingway House in Idaho.
http://kevinlavelle.tv/
Open to all • mary.burke@uconn.edu for WebEx link and accommodations • Sponsored by Irish Studies/English Department.
For more information, contact: Mary M. Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu