Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker Sign With UTA
UTA has signed Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker for representation in all areas.
Halpern and Schumacker are currently executive producers and co-showrunners of the ABC hit comedy series Abbott Elementary. Alongside series creator and star Quinta Brunson, Halpern and Schumacker have received four consecutive group Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.
In addition to showrunning and executive producing, Halpern and Schumacker are also series creators and directors through their company, Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, currently under an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television.
Before their work on Abbott Elementary, they co-created HBO Max’s five-season animated series Harley Quinn for WBTV and DC Entertainment, in addition to its spinoff, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!. Previously, Halpern and Schumacker showran and executive produced NBC’s Powerless for WBTV and DC Entertainment. They also co-created Fox’s Surviving Jack and CBS’s S#*! My Dad Says, which was adapted for TV based on Halpern’s New York Times bestselling book of the same name.
Additionally, they have been involved in popular series such as iZombie, Cougar Town, and How to Be a Gentleman, and they wrote the feature Birthright, based on the graphic novel by Joshua Williamson for Universal Pictures.
Up next, Halpern and Schumacker have the coming-of-age comedy series I Suck at Girls in production at Netflix with Bill Lawrence and Doozer Productions alongside Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions. The series is based on Halpern’s non-fiction book of the same title, and Halpern and Schumacker will create and showrun the series. Also in the works is tennis comedy Backhanded, set up at HBO Max, which is co-written with Ali Waller and produced through their shingle.
Halpern’s debut fiction novel, Get Lost, will be published by Hachette Book Group on July 7. Halpern and Schumacker are adapting the book for film and are attached to direct.
Halpern and Schumacker continue to be represented by Adventure Media and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
