Showrunner Sessions is our ongoing event series where we go one-on-one with a showrunner (or showrunning team) to find out, “What exactly does a showrunner do?” Find out what they look for in a writing staff, the lessons they’ve learned on the job, and their approaches to running the room.
For this session, we chat with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, the Co-Creators and Co-Showrunners of AppleTV+ drama For All Mankind. They’ll share their approach to crafting episodes of a series set in an alternate history depicting what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. Hear their experiences writing the show’s new third season and their insights into writing sci-fi for a streamer. Moderated by Vanity Fair’s David Canfield.
Panel starts at 5:00pm Pacific time.
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For anyone who was unable to RSVP for the panel, we will record and post it at a later date.
About the Panelists
Matt Wolpert
Ben Nedivi
MATT WOLPERT and BEN NEDIVI are the award-winning executive producers and co-creators of Apple TV+’s Emmy® Award-winning series FOR ALL MANKIND which has now entered its third season.
Wolpert and Nedivi previously worked as writers and co-executive producers on the first three seasons of the FX anthology series, FARGO, based on the Coen brothers' 1996 film. In 2014, FARGO won the Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Miniseries along with 17 additional nominations and won the Golden Globe for best miniseries.
The two also earned Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominations as well as Writers Guild Award for their work on the series.
In 2015, Wolpert and Nedivi worked on FX's award-winning limited series, AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON as writers and consulting producers and were writers and co-executive producers on the first season of Netflix's Emmy® Award-winning series, UMBRELLA ACADEMY, based on the Gerard Way graphic novel.
The two have worked alongside one another since 2007, when the two were staffed on HBO's critically acclaimed series ENTOURAGE. During their tenure, the show received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Best Comedy Series and won the Peabody Award.
Wolpert grew up in Colorado Springs, CO, and attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
Nedivi was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and came to the United States with his parents at age three. He attended New York University where he studied Film and Journalism. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.