The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays

About Charlotte StewartDavid BushmanHannah KleinLindsay HallamLindsey BowdenMarisa C. HayesMelanie McFarlandPhilippa SnowScott Ryan

Hannah Klein was born and raised in New York City. She attended NYU majoring in dramatic literature intending to be a serious playwright when she grew up. However she was shitty at being serious and found her love of comedy while interning in the writers room at SNL. Since then she has written for The Detour Season 3 on TBS has been accepted into the New York Television Festival for her original dramedy pilot script Everythings Fine (based on her personal struggle with bipolar disorder) and wrote/directed/starred in a half hour pilot entitled Kill Yourself. When shes not writing scripts that worry her parents you can find her in the mosh pit. Scott Ryan was elected as a Senator for Victoria at the 2007 federal election and re-elected in 2013 and 2016. He served in the Abbott ministry as parliamentary secretary for education and in the Turnbull ministries as minister for vocational education special minister of state and minister assisting the prime minister for Cabinet. In 2017 he was elected the twenty-fifth President of the Senate the youngest person to ever hold the position. Prior to entering parliament Scott was a consultant in the health and insurance sectors and in the pharmaceutical industry as well as working as a speechwriter and political adviser a tutor in politics and serving as a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne. Scott was born in Brisbane in 1973 and raised and educated in Melbourne where he lives with his wife Helen and two sons. David Bushman is a longtime television curator at The Paley Center for Media and an adjunct professor of media at colleges in the New York area. He is the author of Twin Peaks FAQ: All Thats Left to Know About a Town Both Wonderful and Strange and Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ: All Thats Left to Know About Sunnydales Slayer of Vampires Demons and Other Forces of Darkness Actress Charlotte Stewart created the role of beloved schoolteacher Miss Beadle in the popular television series Little House on the Prairie (1974). She has also worked with David Lynch on two occasions in the cult classic Eraserhead (1977) and the TV series Twin Peaks (1990 2017). She is the author of Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle Mary X and Me. Lindsay Hallam is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of East London. She is author of the book Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film (McFarland 2012) and Devils Advocates - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Auteur Press 2018). She has contributed to the collections Trauma Media Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010) Draculas Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film (Scarecrow Press 2013) Fragmented Nightmares: Transnational Horror Across Visual Media (Routledge 2014) Critical Insights: Violence in Literature (Salem Press 2014) and the journals Asian Cinema Senses of Cinema 16:9 Cine-Excess and Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Melanie McFarland is the TV Critic for Salon.com. Prior to that was IMDb's TV Editor and the TV critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer serving on the 2004 and 2005 juries for American Film Institute's 10 Most Outstanding TV Programs of the Year. McFarland also served on the Board of the George Foster Peabody Awards between 2006 and 2012 and has been featured as an expert on CNN NPR American Public Media and the BBC. She has been a member of the Television Critics Association since 2003. Her work has appeared in The Oregonian the Chicago Tribune RollingStone.com Rotten Tomatoes and Variety. Born in Portsmouth in 1976 Lindsey moved to London and graduated drama school in 2000 and worked as an actress before turning her hand to producing. With several producing credits under her belt Lindsey created the Twin Peaks UK Festival in 2010 the only officially licenced Twin Peaks event in the UK which is now in its 10th year. Lindseys first book Damn Fine Cherry Pie the Twin Peaks inspired cookbook was published in November 2016 and she is currently working on a collection of short stories and her first childrens book as well as more immersive events for her company. Marisa C. Hayes is a Franco-American artist and scholar working at the crossroads of moving images and the performing arts. She is the author of Ju-on: The Grudge (Auteur 2017) and is editor in chief of Repères cahier de danse Frances national dance research journal. Marisa holds a masters degree in Visual Studies from the Sorbonne and is currently a doctoral candidate at the same university. She shares her life with a Twin Peaks-obsessed human and a menagerie of small mammals. Philippa Snow is a writer based in Norwich England. Her reviews and essays have appeared in publications including Artforum The White Review Sight & Sound GARAGE Another Gaze i-D Frieze The Cut and Tank magazine.