Markley applied to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after several unhappy years “scraping by” as a freelancer.
Throughout his youth, he filled thick notebooks with scribbled stories-and he also wrote for his school newspaper while completing an undergraduate degree at Miami University of Ohio.
The Mount Vernon, Ohio, native has spent a lifetime pursuing such literary ambiguities. “If I could explain how these characters come to life in my head, I would bottle and sell it,” says Markley, who also served as a story editor for the series. Markley and his fellow screenwriter, Ben Philippe, successfully pitched the idea of writing from a deaf person’s perspective, taking a deep dive into Theo’s personality and point of view. Though Markley (15MFA) didn’t create Theo, he did co-write “The Boy From 6B,” the show’s groundbreaking episode from season one that puts Theo center stage and doesn’t include a single line of audible dialogue.
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