![]() And we just thought, ‘Well let’s just see what we can come up with and see if anything happens and we’re still doing theater in New York and working at law firms and whatever.’ I knew at some point I’d have to work my own, but honestly I didn’t want to work somebody else’s long hours. Kauffman: I had a baby at the time and didn’t want to work somebody else’s long hours. We didn’t in any way follow the sort of traditional move to L.A., work on somebody’s show, start as a story editor, work your way up. So she’s like, ‘OK, well, just come up with ideas for shows and we’ll see if we can try to sell them.’ It was very, kind of, ad hoc. ![]() My family thanks you.Ĭrane: And so it just-at that point we didn’t want to move out of New York. She came to the play and said, ‘Why aren’t you guys doing television?’Ĭrane: And we hadn’t even thought of doing television. We had a show off-Broadway-Nancy Josephson, who is here, who’s our agent. I don’t know that we had specific, like, dreams. I was a whore and he was a street urchin.Ĭrane: It started by just doing plays and musicals in college and then in New York. Honestly, the way we met-we were in a play. So did you think when you first met that there was any chance you’d create something so huge in your life? First, I know you two met a couple of years ago when you were in college. Incredibly popular, critically popular and people are still trying to emulate it nearly ten years after the finale aired. The success that you had with Friends is truly a Holy Grail in television, for everybody involved-you as the creators, certainly with the cultural impact, the billions of dollars that it’s generated, the careers it’s launched. Years later, the pair is so close, they still finish each other’s sentences. Crane and Jeffrey Klarik cocreated the Showtime and BBC series Episodes, starring Matt LeBlanc of Friends, as well as the CBS comedy The Class. She also executive produced Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, a documentary that was on the short list for the 2008 Oscars. ![]() Among the projects they’ve done separately, Kauffman executive produced Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, featuring five scripted shorts on mental illness, which followed 2011’s Five, featuring five short films focused on breast cancer. They also cocreated Veronica’s Closet, The Powers That Be and the pioneering HBO series Dream On. Marta Kauffman and David Crane not only created the phenomenon that is Friends, they’ve earned a long list of awards, including the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy series. ![]()
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