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Williams and his wife, Angelina Fiordellisi, have two children. As of 2024, the couple reside in a three-story townhouse in the West Village in Manhattan, New York. Williams has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts as an adjunct professor. He is a Christian.
Jun 8, 2024 · Matt Williams, right, with his wife, Angelina Fiordellisi. Williams was a key player behind the scenes on several top shows of the 1980s and ’90s, including “Roseanne” and “Home ...
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Matt Williams is best known as the creator and executive producer of the hit series Roseanne and the co-creator and executive producer of Home Improvement, one of the most successful programs in television history.
- January 1, 1
- Writer, Producer, Additional Crew
- Evansville, Indiana, USA
- Matt Williams
- Tell Us About Your Book. Where Did The Idea Come from?
- Why Did You Choose UE to Host This Event?
- How Did Growing Up in Evansville Shape Your Career?
- How Did You Write "Roseanne?"
- How Did Evansville Shape The "Roseanne" Characters?
- Why Did It Interest You to Write About Working-Class folks?
- What Got You Interested in The Theatre World?
- What Was It Like Going from Small-Town Evansville to The Big Easy?
- Who Had The Biggest Impact on Your Career? Was There Anyone You Looked Up to?
- If You Go
This is my first book. After 35 years in Hollywood with Wind Dancer films, doing TV and creating TV shows, and producing and directing films, I decided I had had enough. It's time I closed up shop, and I moved back to New York. And then I thought, "Okay, I'm not done telling stories." And so I had never written a book, and I was a little intimidate...
I graduated from UE in 1973 and as soon as they said the name John David Lutz, I said, "I want to help." (Lutz) was a major influence in my life; he taught me, trained me, and guided my early career. He stayed in touch with me through the years; The first play I ever wrote, he came to New York and directed, and he has been the guiding force in shap...
Well, work ethic. That's the bottom line: you don't get something for nothing. You've got to work for it. I've worked every summer. I worked as a hot carrier, mixing mud and carrying bricks as a carpenter's assistant. I worked construction and then later in doing summer stock, I would act in the plays and was the transport captain. I was in charge ...
Well, I was on "The Cosby Show," and had been working on "The Cosby Show" for three years as a writer and then writer-producer. I had, with John Marcus and Carmen Finestra, developed "A Different World." And I knew if I stayed on "The Cosby Show," I wouldn't improve as a writer because I had the same team of people around me all the time. And I wan...
Well, Dan is inspired by almost all of my uncles, they were independent contractors. So I made Dan Conner an independent contractor. The house I used as an exterior is the house in Evansville. I flew the production designer to Evansville to take pictures of my grandmother's house. So the louvered windows above the sink, the captain on the back of t...
Because that's what I knew and that's what I lived. The very first play I wrote, "Between Daylight and Boonville," was inspired because driving back from Madison, Wisconsin, one winter, after directing a play. I looked up into the hills in Pennsylvania, because all the leaves were off the trees, it was icy and cold. And there was a cluster of trail...
I was a narcissist. I needed attention, that's what we all do at first. I discovered plays in high school and I was a football player who tried out for a play. And I went, "Wow, I kind of like this." But when I started at the university, I was an English major and a PE minor with the idea that I was going to be an English teacher and football coach...
Well, I went to the Big Easy on purpose, because I knew I wasn't ready for the Big Apple. I left Evansville and thought, "I'm not ready to go to LA or New York." I didn't have the confidence. So I kind of hid out in graduate school in New Orleans for three years and that was the perfect transition. I had the big city vibe, still honing my craft and...
Depends on what phase of my life: Early on, without a doubt, it was John David Lutz. While a big influence but not my hero, working on "The Cosby Show" and with Bill Cosby, and learning how to do TV and comedy by watching and writing for him and being on the floor with him. That was my first job in television. So, all the foundation for the other t...
Glimpses: An Evening with Matt Williams
7:30 p.m., Shanklin Theatre, 1800 Lincoln Ave. Tickets are $75 (includes a seat at the event and a post-show reception with Williams), and $25 for Livestream tickets to the reading.
Carmen Finestra (born 1947) is an American producer and TV writer who currently is partnered with Matt Williams and David McFadzean in Wind Dancer Productions, a firm which Finestra also co-owns and co-founded with actor Tim Allen.
He also serves on the board at the Cherry Lane Theatre, a resident non-profit theatre founded by his wife, Angelina Fiordellisi.
He was the original producer and co-creator of the TV series Roseanne with the show's star, Roseanne Barr, and the creator and producer of another long-running ABC-TV sitcom, Home Improvement and films such as What Women Want.
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