middlemarch: The series
a literary web series
overview
Middlemarch: The Series is a 70-episode web series that reimagines George Eliot's Victorian novel Middlemarch at a modern liberal arts college, in video-blog format. The series was written, directed, produced, shot and edited by Rebecca Shoptaw as an independent study over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year. The series aired on YouTube from March 15th to December 1st, 2017, and was written up in publications such as The New Yorker, Le Monde, and i-D Magazine.
The series follows a group of students at Lowick College in the fictional town of Middlemarch, Connecticut, who are all just beginning to figure out who they are and what they want.
Logo by Ana Marta
cast
Dot Brooke - Mia Fowler
Fred Vincy - Oliver Shoulson
Billie Ladislaw - C.B.G.
Celia Arroyo - Sofía Campoamor
Jamie Chettam - Lola Hourihane
Max Garth - Kai Nugent
Rosamond Vincy - Eliot S.
Thomas Lydgate - Carlos Guanche
Edward Casaubon - Zak Rosen
Adele Naumann - Ariel Lowrey
press
The New Yorker - "'Middlemarch' Gets Winningly Adapted as a Web Series"
Le Monde - "Le roman <<Middlemarch>> de George Eliot adapté en websérie"
i-D Magazine - "'middlemarch' is now a queer coming-of-age web series"
Decider - "‘Middlemarch: The Series’ Masterfully Adapts George Eliot For A Millennial Audience"
AfterEllen - "A Group of Yale Students Have Adapted 'Middlemarch' as a Web Series"
The Dickens Society - "Adapting Middlemarch in the Information Age"
Open Culture - "George Eliot's Middlemarch Gets Reborn as a 21st Century Web Series"
NetTVNow - "Award-Winning Director Announces Middlemarch Web Series"
Women and Hollywood - "'Middlemarch' Web Series Modernizes the Classic Novel"
Fandomania - "Middlemarch: Classic Romantic Tale With A New Twist"
PlayGround - "Un joven cineasta ha convertido 'Middlemarch' en una webserie con perspectiva LGBTQI"
Fourteen East Magazine - "A Trip to Middlemarch"
The Daily Fandom - "LGBTQ+ Web Series ‘Middlemarch: The Series’ Gender-Bends George Eliot’s Middlemarch"
LGBT World - "'Middlemarch: The Series' - A New LGBTQ+ Web Series to Check Out"
Yale Daily News - "Middlemarch: The Beauty of the Ordinary"
Lesbian Interest - "Middlemarch: The Series"
Screenings & Awards
Official Selection - Melbourne Web Fest (2018)
Official Selection - ClexaCon Film Festival (2018)
Official Selection - Carballo Interplay (2018)
Winner - Award of Recognition - Best Shorts Film Festival (2017)
Official Selection - Miami Independent Film Festival (2017)
Official Selection - Blackbird Film Festival (2018)
Official Selection - Minnesota Web Fest (2017)
Semi-Finalist - Los Angeles CineFest (2017)
Semi-Finalist - Miami Movie Fest (2017)
Official Selection - Worldwide Women’s Film Festival (2018)
Official Selection - Direct Short Online Film Festival (2017)