Brown Arts
Hollywood Creators Series
A series of intimate conversations with influential writers, producers, and directors, hosted in collaboration with the Spring 2025 course Advanced Screenwriting in the Department of Literary Arts.
Hollywood Creators Series
A series of intimate conversations with influential writers, producers, and directors, hosted in collaboration with the Spring 2025 course Advanced Screenwriting in the Department of Literary Arts.
Coming Up
Hollywood Creators Series: Matt Tarses
April 4, 2025, 1:00pm | Brown ID Required
McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Matt Tarses is an Emmy-nominated and two-time Humanitas Award-winning writer and producer. He created and executive produced Worst Week and Mad Love for CBS, Alex, Inc. for ABC, and Teachers for NBC. He has been a writer/producer on Scrubs, Sports Night, The Goldbergs, Atypical, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He’s currently an executive producer/showrunner on the Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey as well as an untitled upcoming HBO series starring Steve Carell.
Past Events
February 21, 2025 | JJ Abrams
JJ Abrams is the founder and CEO of Bad Robot Productions and the writer, director and/or producer of television series such as Felicity, Alias, Lost, Castle Rock, Westworld, Lovecraft Country, Presumed Innocent, and the upcoming series Duster for MAX, and films in the Star Wars, Star Trek, Mission:Impossible, and Cloverfield franchises, and the upcoming film Flowervale Street for Warner Brothers Studios. In addition to his film and television work, Abrams also conceived the novel S. with writer Doug Dorst, which became a New York Times Best Seller. For Broadway, he has produced The Play That Goes Wrong, Derren Brown’s Secret, GUTENBERG! The Musical!, Cabaret, and Appropriate. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath, live in Los Angeles and have three children.