Enjoy a 1 hour lunch with television producers Mark Goffman and Lindsay Goffman virtually or in person in LA!
About Mark Goffman:
Mark is currently Executive Producer for the NBC series, The Irrational, and EP of several series slated to shoot in a number of countries around the world. Recently, Goffman was an executive producer and writer on the Netflix series, The Umbrella Acadamy. Goffman has also executive produced and showrun the hit series about trial science and the American judicial system, called Bull, on CBS, which ran for six seasons, and Sleepy Hollow, for Fox, which ran for four seasons. He also served as an executive producer for Limitless on CBS and USA’s White Collar. His pilot Victor, starring John Stamos, was produced for NBC. Goffman first started on The West Wing, where he wrote for several seasons. Afterwards, Goffman ran the writers' room for Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Goffman has worked on more than 200 hours of scripted television, been nominated for two Writers Guild Awards and won the Entertainment Industries Council SET Award. The Hollywood Reporter has listed Goffman as one of the 50 most influential writers in television. One of his episodes of Law & Order: SVU garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mariska Hargitay. Goffman's feature directorial debut is Dumbstruck, a documentary about ventriloquists, theatrically released by Magnolia Pictures. Goffman began his career as a writer in Brussels, for the magazine Commerce in Belgium. He has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote speeches for state and federally elected officials, consulted to the U.S. military, Intelligence, Department of State and White House. Goffman has a B.A. from Emory University in Economics and Philosophy and served as a Masters Thesis Adviser, Fiction Writing Program, at Johns Hopkins University. His first play, Me Too, has run in Los Angeles and Indianapolis. He is slated to direct his first feature film in 2023.
About Lindsay Goffman:
Lindsay is the founder and head of Gratitude Productions. Gratitude has projects set up with Apple, FX (3 projects), FOX, Perfect Storm (Justin Lin), The Roots, Rideback, Day Zero (Trevor Noah), Get Lifted (John Legend), Jon M. Chu, MGM, Universal Television, and is most recently producing The Company You Keep, based on the Korean format she acquired the rights to and packaged for 20th / ABC. Starring Milo Ventimiglia, the pilot has just finished shooting and has opened their writers room targeted for midseason. Previously, Lindsay helped start-up and head 3AD, Daniel Dae Kim's production company. While at 3AD, she sold 8 projects to broadcast networks and premium outlets. One of the projects she found the format for and championed is the hit series, The Good Doctor. The show became ABC’s #1 new series and was awarded the Humanitas Prize.