INTERIOR CHINATOWN (S1 E1)
and Q&A with Creator Charles Yu

About Interior Chinatown

Interior Chinatown follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural trying to find his way into the larger story--and along the way discovering secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family's buried history.

Season 1, Episode 1: "Generic Asian Man" runs 48 minutes.

About the Guest

CHARLES YU (Series Creator/Executive Producer/Showrunner)

Charles Yu is creator and showrunner of the Hulu original series “Interior Chinatown,” based on his novel of the same title, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Fiction. The book was named a best book of the year by numerous publications and organizations, including The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and Vulture. He has been nominated for three WGA awards and has written for Hulu, FX, AMC and HBO, as well as feature film projects for Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper's, Time and Wired, among other places. He lives in southern California with his family.

About CTCS-467: Television Symposium

This Spring 2025 semester, the School of Cinematic Arts will offer a very special course called CTCS-467: Television Symposium, a four-unit elective class open for enrollment to ALL USC STUDENTS OF ANY MAJOR that brings you face-to-face with the leading television writers, producers, directors and actors working today.

Each week, students watch contemporary television programming selected from the best shows on the air, followed by an exclusive Q&A with the creative team behind the show. The class is taught by MARY MCNAMARA, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and cultural editor for the Los Angeles Times and meets in person every Monday night @ 7:00 P.M. in the Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108.

Recent guests have included: Paul Simms (What We Do in the Shadows), Athena Wickham (Fallout), Lauren LeFranc (The Penguin), Ben Watkins (Cross), John Landgraf (FX Networks), Lulu Wang (Expats), Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander), Zal Batmanglij & Brit Marling (A Murder at the End of the World), Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage (The O.C.), Fred Golan (Silo), Melanie Marnich (Apples Never Fall), Nicholas Hatton & Jeremy Weinberg (Jury Duty), Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh (Ted), Reggie Rock Bythewood (Swagger), Syreeta Singleton (Rap Sh!t), Ted Humphrey (The Lincoln Lawyer), Annie Weisman (Physical), Chris Storer (The Bear), Eric Kripke (The Boys, Gen V), Meera Menon (Ms Marvel),  David Goyer & Allan Heinberg (The Sandman), Craig Mazin (The Last of Us), Al Gough & Miles Millar (Wednesday), Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso), Jon Kasdan (Willow), Jen Statsky (Hacks), Julie Plec (Vampire Academy), Hiro Murai (Station Eleven, Atlanta), Tazbah Rose Chavez (Reservation Dogs), Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker (Abbott Elementary), Claudia Forestieri & Brigitte Munoz Libowitz (The Gordita Chronicles), Danny Strong (Dopesick), Dong Hyuek (Squid Game), Jonathan Igla (Hawkeye), Molly Smith Metzler (Maid), Gloria Calderón Kellett (With Love), Marta Kaufman (Grace and Frankie), Tracy Oliver (Harlem), Jim Hecht & Jason Shuman (Winning Time), Michael Waldron (Loki), Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown), Ilana Peña (Diary of a Future President), Amanda Peet (The Chair), Jac Schaeffer (WandaVision), Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant), Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit), Malcolm Spellman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Simon Evans (Staged), Susan Downey & Tim Van Patten (Perry Mason), Raamla Mohamed (Little Fires Everywhere), Joe Mantello (The Boys in the Band), Jay Roach & Sarah Paulson (Coastal Elites), Prentice Penny (Insecure), Kerry Ehrin (The Morning Show), Jon Favreau (The Mandalorian), Adam McKay (Succession), Alena Smith (Dickinson), Stephen Williams (Watchmen), Chris Mundy (Ozark), Susannah Grant (Unbelievable), David Mandel (Veep), Steven Canals (Pose), Sam Levinson (Euphoria), Raphael Bob-Waksberg & Kate Purdy (Undone), Marti Noxon (Sharp Objects), David Kajganich (The Terror), Tanya Saracho (Vida), Matt Duffer & Ross Duffer (Stranger Things), Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch (Glow), Noah Hawley (Fargo), and Kenya Barris (black-ish).