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UTA has signed Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker for practice successful each areas.
Halpern and Schumacker are presently executive producers and co-showrunners of nan ABC deed drama bid Abbott Elementary. Alongside bid creator and prima Quinta Brunson, Halpern and Schumacker person received 4 consecutive group Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.
In summation to showrunning and executive producing, Halpern and Schumacker are besides bid creators and board done their company, Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, presently nether an wide woody pinch Warner Bros. Television.
Before their activity connected Abbott Elementary, they co-created HBO Max’s five-season animated bid Harley Quinn for WBTV and DC Entertainment, successful summation to its spinoff, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!. Previously, Halpern and Schumacker showran and executive produced NBC’s Powerless for WBTV and DC Entertainment. They besides co-created Fox’s Surviving Jack and CBS’s S#*! My Dad Says, which was adapted for TV based connected Halpern’s New York Times bestselling book of nan aforesaid name.
Additionally, they person been progressive successful celebrated bid specified arsenic iZombie, Cougar Town, and How to Be a Gentleman, and they wrote nan characteristic Birthright, based connected nan schematic caller by Joshua Williamson for Universal Pictures.
Up next, Halpern and Schumacker person nan coming-of-age drama bid I Suck astatine Girls successful accumulation astatine Netflix pinch Bill Lawrence and Doozer Productions alongside Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions. The bid is based connected Halpern’s non-fiction book of nan aforesaid title, and Halpern and Schumacker will create and showrun nan series. Also successful nan useful is tennis drama Backhanded, group up astatine HBO Max, which is co-written pinch Ali Waller and produced done their shingle.
Halpern’s debut fabrication novel, Get Lost, will beryllium published by Hachette Book Group connected July 7. Halpern and Schumacker are adapting nan book for movie and are attached to direct.
Halpern and Schumacker proceed to beryllium represented by Adventure Media and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
