Theresa Rebeck made the transition from playwright to TV showrunner and got cancelled and canned by NBC for her trouble. But is no longer writing TV really a major disaster? Or even a minor one?
by Mitchell Sunderland
n her home office, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright—and creator of the cult hitSmash—Theresa Rebeck holds a figurine of small, anthropomorphized bears, all seated around a miniature table. The male animals look like TV writers; one even holds a pencil to his mouth.
“This is my table of dudes,” Theresa says. “It expresses my love and terror of the whole experience.”