Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle on How To Achieve Creative ESP In The Envelope: The Actors Podcast

Writeractors always make for insightful interviews, but thats particularly true for Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, who write, produce, edit, and star as middle schoolaged versions of themselves on Hulus Emmynominated cringe comedy, Pen15. Together they shed light on their creative ESP as collaborators, their distinct pagetoscreen process alongside director Sam Zvibleman, and how to overcome the selfdoubt inherent in a Hollywood careerespecially for women onscreen. I have permission to be free and wild and sort of unapologetic, says Maya of playing a 13yearold. Anna agrees: Im so grateful that we got the opportunity to just be characters with zero sex appeal. Zero After meeting at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, Maya and Anna set out to create their own opportunities in the biz, starting with the web series Project Reality. Maya also stars in Plus One, Betas, Casual, Wine Country, and the upcoming ObiWan Kenobi, while Anna has appe