333 - Adam Perlman: ‘Billions’ Writer on The Internal Struggle that Comes With Changing Your Career

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Adam Perlman is a TV writer, director and co-executive producer. We met on the set of Showtime's “Billions,” which I can now say I am a technical writer for. He's also written for some of my favorite shows like "The Newsroom" and "The Good Wife." Adam used to be a lawyer. But he went through this constant battle with himself on whether it’s “okay” to be an artist. Finally, the market collapsed. And there was no work for him in corporate law. So he spent his days writing and eventually landed a mentor, and a gig, and the story picks up from there. Adam Perlman’s a true example of the struggle a lot of us go through when we know we have some bigger dream... but don’t know if survival comes with that dream. So I look at Adam as living proof that it can be done. That you can have your dream and your wellness and your finance all at once.

Show Notes:

Some of the shows Adam Perlman writes for: "The Newsroom" "The Good Wife"

"Billions" (on Showtime)

My interview with Bill Cartwright My interview with Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Bob Scanlan Samuel Beckett David Mamet David Rabe

The Harvard Lampoon

The Acting Company

The Flea The New York Fringe Festival

Aaron Sorkin’s shows: "The West Wing" and "Sports Night"

"Seinfeld" (TV Show) by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld "Curb Your Enthusiasm" "Silicon Valley" "Veep" "The League"

Michael Patrick King (Adam says Michael Patrick King was the major creative force behind "Sex and the City") t (the play Michael Patrick King worked on with writer Nancy Shane) Transport Group (the off broadway theater company that Adam Perlman was the literary manager for) "Sex and the City" (Movie)

"Ugly Betty" "Law and Order"

Gen Maynard (the first person to help out Adam in his TV career. Gen worked on “The Amazing Race,” “Survivor,” and later “CSI”)

Josh Berman

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