FACE TIME: A Ethnographic Director’s Guide to an Original Comedy Pilot

Abstract

This paper explores the creation of FACE TIME, an original 30-minute comedy pilot, as a form of scholarly work. The essay relies on an annotated interview with my interlocutor and creative partner, Tessa Albertson, to ground various anthropological theories within our creative and intellectual process. An experiment in hopeful collaboration as a method of knowledge production, this thesis engages with questions of queerness, disjointed temporality, relationality in the time of COVID-19.