Trial by fire: How first-time showrunner Kat Sandler brought her stage play Yaga to the small screen

Trial by fire: How first-time showrunner Kat Sandler brought her stage play Yaga to the small screen


By Michael Pickard
October 23, 2026

SHOWRUNNER

As her play Yaga makes the leap to television, Canadian playwright-turned-showrunner Kat Sandler tells DQ about adapting her theatrical fairy-tale mystery, the TV series that inspired the show and why she never wants an audience to stop paying attention.

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