Comic-Lesung mit Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag
KICK-OFF TO THE FILM ALL-NIGHTE
In the context of the 2011 Dortmund | Cologne International Women‘s Film Festival, Ariel Schrag will present a multimedia-reading of her graphic novel Potential. The reading will include projected slides with Ariel performing all the voices. There will also be a soundtrack featuring original music by Zally, one of the characters of Potential.
In her autobiographical graphic novels – Awkward, Definition, Potential and Likewise (published by Simon & Schuster) – Ariel Schrag records her four years as a student at Berkeley High School. It is an authentic, unfussy and often touching coming-of-age story with all the usual grand wishes, dreams, frustrations and achievements. Potential describes her progress through the 11th grade and was nominated for an Eisner Award. It is currently being developed into a feature film by production company Killer Films and director Rose Troche.
Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag was born in Berkeley, California, in 1979. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a drgree in literature. In 2004, she began teaching the Graphic Novel Workshop at the New School, New York. Ariel was a writer for the hit Showtime series The L Word. She ist the editor of and a contributor to Stuck in the Middle – 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, an anthology of comics about middle school, published in 2007 and selected for New York Public Library‘s Books for the Teen Age 2008. Schrag‘s illustrations and comics have appeared in publications such as The San Francisco Chronical, Jane, Paper and The Village Voice. She has done readings and multimedia presentations of her work and her original art has appeared in museums and galleries across the United States as well as in Austria, Spain, Canada and the United Kingdom. Ariel Schrag divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.
