Cassie Pappas (showrunner, Lucky; Silo; Griselda) discusses shooting in Vegas, movies that inspired the tone of Lucky, the emotional guts of the show, getting weird with the writers, showrunning as a \"creative team sport,\" whether or not you need to live in LA to work in TV, and more.
No Notes is Sunday July 19, 7pm, at the Dynasty Typewriter Theater in LA!
This is a new staged show in which great pilot scripts are adapted for the stage and performed by brilliant casts.
The July 19 show features two comedy scripts:
The Survivalists is by Kashana Cauley (The Great North; The Daily Show), based on her novel about a Brooklyn lawyer who falls in love with a coffee roaster/survivalist.
Suckers by Eden Dranger (Beavis & Butthead) & Daley Haggar (The Big Bang Theory) is about 20-something vampires.
Starring Yvonne Orji (Insecure), Shabana Azeez (The Pitt), Molly Quinn (Castle), Justin Kirk (The Burbs; Weeds), Cooper Tomlinson (Obsessed), Kira Kosarin (The Thundermans), Langston Kerman (Insecure; The Boys), Jessica Garcia (On My Block), Logan Miller (Escape Room; Chicago Med), Alex Song-Xia (Rick and Morty), Burl Moseley (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), and LaNisa Frederick (Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat).
THE WRITERS PANEL IS A COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION.
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