Watch ORPHAN BLACK “An Alternation of Flights and Perchings” by Jacqueline Bircher

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
SARAH/COSIMA/HELENA/RACHEL – Rachel Rain Packota
ART – Troy Patterson
DELPHINE/GRACE – Maya Woloszyn
ANGIE/MRS. S – Megan Leach
FELIX/MARK – Rob Salerno
THE COLONEL – David Occhipinti

Get to know writer Jacqueline Bircher:

1. What is your ORPHAN BLACK TV Spec screenplay about?

A quick summary: Sarah hatches a reckless gambit to save Helena from the military’s clutches that exposes new, dangerous facets of the clone conspiracy. Cosima and Delphine bring a new clone into the fold in an attempt to cure Cosima’s illness. Felix digs deeper into Mrs. S’s past.

But, what the script is about, on a deeper level, is realizing that you can’t know everything about someone else’s life, even if you look exactly like them, even if you pretend to be them, even if you think you know…