Cassie Pappas (Lucky)
About this episode
Cassie Pappas discusses her work on Lucky and insights into showrunning and writing.
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 )…
People in this episode
Host: Ben Blacker
Guest: Cassie Pappas
Topics covered
- showrunning
- creative collaboration
- TV production
- inspiration in film
- writing process
- live performances
Keywords
- Lucky
- showrunner
- Vegas
- TV
- writing
- No Notes
- pilot scripts
- creative team sport
- inspiration
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Lucky, Silo, Griselda
Books & works: The Survivalists, Suckers
Places: Vegas, LA
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