Interlochen Arts Academy Instructor of Film and Screenwriting drops by Studio B to guest host Morning Classical with Kate Botello! Lesley shared some of her favorite film music with listeners. Click to listen.
Lesley Alicia Tye is a writer and instructor of screenwriting and film critical studies at Interlochen Center for the Arts. In 2004 she co-chaired the strategic planning committee for the development of Interlochen’s Motion Picture Arts Department. She earned her BFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California and her MFA in Creative Writing from National University.
Lesley has also taught screenwriting seminars for Michigan Writers and Northwestern Michigan College’s extension program, and her panel exploring screenplays as literature was accepted to the 2013 AWP Conference. Previously she worked in Los Angeles in film and television, with credits including casting assistant, below-the-line agent with Casala, Ltd, and Costume Designer for the feature “Two Coyotes” and short “The Millennium.”
Her flash fiction has been published in the anthology Bite from Trachodon Publishing. She has written several feature length screenplays, was co-writer for the television pilot "Devin's Chronicles" for Caspian Sea Entertainment, and while at USC received the Stephen C. Gentry Award for Excellence in Screenwriting. She has also been active on and off stage in theatre productions in Los Angeles and in Traverse City.
We had a great time with Lesley Tye this morning! For tickets to Lesley's show, How Grinchy Met the Who, performing November 30th and December 6th and 7th, 2013 at Traverse City's Inside Out Gallery, visit: brownpapertickets.com.
LESLEY'S MUSICAL SELECTIONS:
- "Stillness of the Mind," A Single Man, Abel Korzeniowski
- "La valse d'Amelie," Amelie, Yann Tiersen
- "With this Love," The Last Temptation of Christ, Peter Gabriel
- "Overture (The Big Race)," Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Danny Elfman
- "Big Fish (Titles)," Big Fish, Danny Elfman
- "Silver Lining Titles," Silver Linings Playbook, Danny Elfman
- "Voices of Light: 1. Exclamavit," The Passion of Joan of Arc, Voices of Light
- "Moon River," Breakfast at Tiffany's, Henry Mancini
- "Emily's Theme," Brick, Nathan Johnson
- "Penelope's Theme," The Brothers Bloom, Nathan Johnson & The Cinematic Underground
- "I'm Free," Tommy, The Who (Roger Daltrey) with the London Symphony Orchestra
LESLEY'S BONUS RECOMMENDED TRACKS:
- "A Body That Technically Does Not Exist," Looper, Nathan Johnson
- "Everything Comes Around," Looper, Nathan Johnson
- "Overture," Tommy, Pete Townsend with the London Symphony Orchestra
- "The Cathedral of Books," Wings of Desire, JurgenKnieper