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He was a writer/producer for The Cosby Show and A Different World, and wrote the screenplay for Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Williams created the TV series Roseanne, starring comedian Roseanne Barr.
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.
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- Writer, Producer, Additional Crew
- Evansville, Indiana, USA
- Matt Williams
Jun 8, 2024 · “ Roseanne,” which he created, transplanted his family from New York to Los Angeles, where they lived until the Northridge earthquake in 1994. After the earthquake, Mr. Williams relocated to...
- Andrew Cotto
Jan 26, 1989 · The new TV series was going to be called “Life and Stuff,” or so its creator, head writer and co-executive producer, Matt Williams, thought. He even put the title on the cover of the pilot...
- 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.
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.
Oct 18, 2013 · Based on the real life experiences of creator Matt Williams and the “domestic goddess” stand-up comedy routines of its lead, Roseanne Barr, “Roseanne” the sitcom was a far cry from the safe,...
