Bill Taub

Instructor Biography:

Screenwriter; WGA and WGC member who won a WGA Award for 101 Best Written TV Series, including Barney Miller and Hill Street Blues. Mr. Taub has written for Magnum P.I, Newhart, In the Heat of the Night, among others, and created the award-winning web series The G Spot. He has written pilots for NBC, Columbia, Warner Bros, and Paramount.

Instructor Statement:

The more I study the work of those I admire most, the one thing that becomes apparent is that they either didn't know all the rules, or they ignored them. It's their innocence, their originality, their freshness that have made their work such a tremendous success. Whether it's the most recent work of David Kelley, David Milch, or Larry David (the confederacy of "Davids" as I call them), and now J. J. Abrams, they didn't know what they weren't supposed to do--didn't know what they didn't know. For me, the most fun I have writing, and the best chance I have of getting anything done or looked at, is trying to be as original as possible. It doesn't have to be"high art"--I love experimenting with various genres and ways to execute the same idea, the same story, as in the movie Memento. So my mantra nowadays, which I keep on my wall and would like to impart to others is: The first rule is...there are no rules!