KARI LIZER: A Mile in a Showrunner’s Shoes

A professional, confessional writer and producer who created the TV series The New Adventures of Old Christine and Call Your Mother. She served as co-executive producer on Will & Grace and is the author of a book of humorous and unflinching essays on midlife called Aren’t You Forgetting Someone? Essays from my Mid-Life Revenge. Kari started her career writing for the series Weird Science and creating the TV show Maggie Winters. She tells us the responsibilities required to be a television showrunner, explains how her face got covered in poison oak and reveals the lies she told as a kid.