Donald Glover: From Sitcom Writer to Everything at Once
Hired to write for 30 Rock in his early twenties, he became Troy, then Childish Gambino, then the creator of Atlanta — and the template for the multi-hyphenate decade.
Profiles
Long-form portraits of actors, writers, directors and crew, reported with time on set and questions about the work instead of the private life.
Regina King: The Actor Who Built a Second Career Behind the Camera
Four acting Emmys in four years made her television royalty; a deliberate pivot to directing made her something rarer — a filmmaker trained on set.
David E. Kelley: The Lawyer Who Became a TV Titan
Trained at Harvard Law, allergic to staying in one genre, the writer-producer has been building courtroom empires on television since the late 1980s.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the One-Woman-Show Route to an Empire
A solo stage piece about grief and desire became Fleabag, six Emmys, a Bond screenplay, and a blueprint for turning intimacy into intellectual property.
Jesse Armstrong: How One Writer Defined the Prestige Drama Era
From Peep Show to Succession, the British writer built a career out of institutional cruelty — then won three Drama Series Emmys for it.
Norman Lear: The Producer Who Turned Sitcoms Into Social Arguments
The man behind All in the Family and The Jeffersons built a comedy empire out of arguments America was already having at its own dinner tables.