‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ Tells the Story of Us

When the director and Broadway playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo talks about his directorial debut, the film “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” he stays relatively focused on his experience making that movie: working with the lead actress Jillian Bell, shooting in New York City, premiering it at Sundance — where Colaizzo had to ask the theater manager to turn up the movie’s audio because the audience was laughing so hard. But at this moment, he’s making a sharp left turn by reciting a quote from fellow playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. “‘Film is the story of them, and theater is the story of us,’” he says via Wilder. Colaizzo is known for his 2012 play “Really Really,” which transferred to New York in 2013 and became nationally recognized, nominated for multiple awards and ultimately won the Charles MacArthur. He didn’t care about film until he was in his mid-20s; he says he always enjoyed seeing the story of us more than the story of them. Before that, he was always watching the plot of a film unfold, thinking to himself, “Well, this is predictable.” And it was this feeling that led him to write “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” which he conceived based on

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