INDUSTRY 101 PODCAST

The Humanitas Industry 101 Podcast is a part of a series of events and content introducing topics that are foundational to understanding and launching television and film writing careers. The podcast features audio from our digitized archive, as well as new conversations.

Dating back to 1974, Humanitas has a long history of presenting workshops for writers exploring craft and career issues. In 2022, we created the Industry 101 event series as a continuation of that work.

We are now launching the Humanitas Industry 101 Podcast to start new conversations and highlight historical ones from our archive, which holds over 200 hours of audio of conversations recorded on cassette tapes between 1990-2006 and digitized by our staff in Fall 2024.

Humanitas's Industry 101 is made possible with support from our series sponsor Sony Pictures Entertainment.

LATEST EPISODE

This episode comes from a writing workshop with Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman recorded October 21, 1995.

They give an in-depth look at the show Party of Five and its characters.

Chris and Amy first met as college students when Amy was studying playwriting and Chris was studying law. They would go on to work for television series including Sisters, L.A. Law, and Lone Star, before co-creating Party of Five. The show ran for 142 episodes across six seasons, won a Humanitas Prize in 1995, and was nominated a second time in 1996.

In addition to their work together, Amy’s credits include Masters of Sex, In Treatment, and Ruth & Erica. And Chris’s credits include The Society, The Last Tycoon, and Julia. He served as the president of WGA West from 2011-2015.