CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Alumni Visit

Happily, though unexpectedly -- because of responsibilities to a series pilot now shooting in the area -- John Wells has offered to visit the Drama School tomorrow to speak with students.

He will be conducting a talk and Q and A in the Chosky Theatre between 2 and 4 PM, Thursday, March 23rd.

The actors and directors participating in the Pressman workshop will be released to attend the John Wells event.

Others of you who are not in class at that time are also welcome to attend.

PLEASE NOTE:

Students -- unless faculty have explicitly excused you from conflicting classes, you must attend your scheduled courses.

We did not have sufficient notice about this visit to ask faculty to determine whether they wished students to be excused.

I have included information below about John's outstanding career.

John Wells
DRAMA 1979
Producer/Writer/Director

Widely respected in the television industry as the Emmy-nominated writer-producer of the ABC drama series "China Beach" (1988-91) and now as the Emmy-winning co-executive producer of NBC's triumphant "ER" (1994-present) and "The West Wing" (1999-present), John Wells began his writing career while enrolled in the University of Southern California's film school. He went there for his master's degree (graduating in 1982) after leaving Carnegie Mellon.

Among his honors for creating the "ER" and "The West Wing" series are Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Producer's Guild Award, three People's Choice Awards and the Television Critics Society Award.

Earlier, Wells had received the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award for producing theater (1982), as well as the Los Angeles Weekly Award (1985) and the Drama-Logue Magazine Award (1985). He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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