Join us for a Conversation with showrunners to share 'behind the curtain' insight on the discussions and selection processes from self-tapes to chemistry reads, co-stars to series regulars. This panel will include Laura Eason (Three Women), Beth Schachter (Billions) and Liz Tuccillo (Best Medicine).
Laura Eason is a playwright, screenwriter and producer. She most recently served as EP/Showrunner of the Starz drama series Three Women. Other TV credits include the Showtime drama The Loudest Voice (WGA nomination; Golden Globe nomination, limited series) and four seasons of Netflix's five-time Emmy-nominated best drama series House of Cards (Emmy and WGA nominations, drama series.) Laura's debut feature, Here and Now, produced by and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (then titled Blue Night) and is available on demand after a limited theatrical release. Past TV development includes pilot scripts for Amazon, Apple, BBC, Fox 21, Fox Network, Peacock and Starz. She is currently developing a pilot at Netflix and a feature at Amazon. An award-winning playwright, Laura’s more than twenty produced plays and adaptations includes the off-Broadway hit Sex with Strangers, that has been performed all over the U.S. as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Taiwan and Turkey, and her celebrated adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days which began under her direction in Chicago and has gone on to over a hundred production in the U.K. and will be revived as part of the New Vic’s 40th Anniversary in 2026. Laura is a long-time Ensemble Member and former Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago (regional theatre Tony Award.) She is a graduate of Northwestern University and an alumna of WP Theater’s Playwrights Lab and currently serves on WP’s Board of Directors. Originally from Chicago, Laura lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.
Beth Schachter is currently Executive Producing Brian Koppelman and David Levein's new series VEGAS for Netflix with Martin Scorsese producing. Just before that she was executive producing FIVE STAR WEEKEND with Dinner Party Productions and UCP for Peacock, based on the novel by Elin Hildebrand. She's co-developing a series about the origin of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders with Amy Seimetz, with Steven Soderbergh, Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, and Stacey Sher producing, based on Texas Monthly's AMERICA'S GIRLS podcast. She previously co-showran BILLIONS seasons 5 - 7, and the first season of SUPER PUMPED along with Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Beth’s previous writing and producing credits for television include THE MORNING SHOW (Apple), SOUNDTRACK (Netflix), BUNHEADS (Freeform), SEAL TEAM (CBS), QUANTICO (ABC), and pilots for NBC, MTV, and USA. Schacter wrote and directed the feature film NORMAL ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR, starring Amber Tamblyn, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and sold to New Line Cinema. She adapted her short story “The Break Up 500” for producer Lynda Obst and the Duplass Brothers. Her theater credits include writing and directing TURNED OUT starring Zosia Mamet and Jesse Williams, directing Leslye Headland's TITS and directing Eric Ledgin's TELL ME EVERYTHING, all for Unscreened, the wildly popular one act plays produced by Jordana Mollick. Schacter is a graduate of Columbia University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree. She currently resides in New York.
Liz Tuccillo wrote on "Sex and the City" and co-authored the bestselling book "He's Just Not that Into You." She went on to create the WB TV series "Related" and worked on the TV shows Smash, Sweetbitter, Alaska Daily and American Sports Story. She was the showrunner for HBO's Divorce for its third season and is currently the showrunner and creator of "Best Medicine," an adaptation of the British Doc Martin, starring Josh Charles. She has developed television and film with Will Smith, Ali Wentworth, Chelsea Handler, Debra Messing, Lauren Graham among others at Warner Bros, NBC, ABC, Starz, Peacock, Shondaland, Amazon, Fox, and Fx.
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