Please join us for a screening of Better Things followed by a Q&A with Pamela Adlon.
Moderated by Ali Wentworth
Upon your arrival, please check-in at the SAG Foundation's table, not the 92Y Box Office.
SYNOPSIS
Currently in its first season with a second season renewal recently announced, the show centers on Sam Fox (Adlon), a single, working actor with no filter raising her three daughters, Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood) and Duke (Olivia Edward) in Los Angeles. She’s mom, dad, referee and the cops. Sam also watches out for her mother, Phil (Celia Imrie), an English expatriate, who lives across the street. Sam is flawed and fierce with her love for her daughters, and her own mother, as well. Sometimes, heaping the love on when she feels guilty. Sam’s just trying to earn a living, navigate her daughters’ lives, have fun with a friend or two and also — just maybe — squeeze in some private time once in a while. Adlon serves as Executive Producer as well as showrunner, a writer and a director. Additional Executive Producers are Louis C.K., M. Blair Breard, Dave Becky and 3 Arts Entertainment. Better Things is produced by C.K.’s production company Pig Newton for FX Productions.
PANELIST BIO
Pamela Adlon has been acting since she was 12 years old. In addition to Better Things, Adlon can also be seen as an actor, writer and producer on FX’s Peabody Award winning hit show Louie. For her work on the show, she earned a 2015 Emmy Award nomination for “Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” as well as a 2013 Emmy Award nomination (alongside C.K.) for “Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.” Adlon also shares with C.K. two Writers Guild Awards for “Comedy Series” for Louie.
In the film world, Adlon most recently starred as “Sharon” in First Girl I Loved, which debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and received the NEXT Audience Award. Her additional film credits include Say Anything, Bed of Roses, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Sgt. Bilko,Plump Fiction, Some Girl and Grease 2. She also voices the role of “Vidia” in Disney’s Tinker Bell film franchise.
Adlon is perhaps best known for her role as the unpredictable “Marcy” on Showtime’s Californication. She also voiced the character of “Bobby Hill” on Mike Judge’s animated series King of the Hill, a role for which she won the 2002 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.”
Previously, Adlon starred opposite C.K. on HBO’s Lucky Louie. Her additional television and animation credits are long and storied.
She currently lives in Los Angeles with her three daughters.
