WEB THERAPY

Panelists:

Lisa Kudrow, Executive Producer, Creator, Star

Dan Bucatinsky, Executive Producer, Creator, Guest Star

Don Roos, Creator, Director

Lily Tomlin, Guest Star

Episodes – 10, Half-Hour Episodes

Synopsis

WEB THERAPY stars Emmy® Award-winning actress Lisa Kudrow as “Dr. Fiona Wallice,” a self-professed psychotherapist who treats patients via webcam in weekly, three-minute sessions – a modality she believes more effective than the traditional talk-a-thons heralded by other mental health professionals.  But instead of hearing her patients’ issues, she spends more time interrupting and sharing meaningless personal data.  The A-list guest star roster including Jane Lynch (“Glee”), Courteney Cox (“Cougar Town”), Rashida Jones (“Parks and Recreation”), and, Steven Weber (“Wings”), among others, are given a script framework, but improvise their performances with spontaneous, comedic timing. The series will also delve into her personal life and will feature Lily Tomlin as her mother and Victor Garber (“Alias”) as her husband. 

BIOS

LISA KUDROW

(Executive Producer/Creator “Fiona Wallice”)

Emmy® Award-winning actress LISA KUDROW continues to bring her original sense of comedic timing and delivery to every role she takes on and is able to venture between films, television and the internet with ease.

It was her role as “Phoebe Buffay,” the character she brilliantly portrayed on the NBC hit comedy series Friends for ten seasons (1994-2004), that brought her to audience attention worldwide.  For this role, Kudrow was nominated for an Emmy® Award five times and won once for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1998.  She also received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a Television Series and a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Kudrow made her feature film debut in 1996 in the Albert Brooks’ comedy Mother. Following Mother, she starred opposite Toni Collette and Parker Posey in Clockwatchers (1997) and in the critically acclaimed hit comedy Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion (1997) with Mira Sorvino, which garnered her widespread popularity with film audiences.  Kudrow continued to star in films such as The Opposite of Sex, for which she received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics, an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a Chicago Film Critics Award nomination; Analyze This and the sequel Analyze That; Lucky Numbers; Hanging Up; Wonderland; Happy Endings; P.S. I Love You; Hotel for Dogs; Easy A with Emma Stone; and Paper Man opposite Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds.

In the fall of 2003, Kudrow formed the production company, Is or Isn’t Entertainment with actor/writer Dan Bucatinsky.  Is or Isn’t Entertainment has garnered great success since its inception.  The company’s first television series, the critically acclaimed The Comeback, garnered three Emmy® Award nominations including one for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.  Their second series, Who Do You Think You Are?, recently completed season two and is about to begin production on season three.

In 2009, Kudrow received a Special Webby Award for Outstanding Comedic Performance for her role in season one of the original web version of Web Therapy; in 2010 the show won a Webby Award for Best Comedy Series and received two additional nominations including one for Kudrow for Best Individual Performance.  In 2011, she won a Webby Award for Best Individual Performance and WEB THERAPY won for Best Comedy: Long Form or Series.

DAN BUCATINSKY

(Executive Producer / Creator/“Jerome Sokoloff”)

DAN BUCATINSKY was the writer, producer and star of the hit, indie, romantic comedy All Over the Guy co-starring Adam Goldberg, Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow.  He served as co-executive producer of the television dramedy series, Lipstick Jungle and continues to work as an actor and writer in television and film.  As a regular writer/performer in the acclaimed reading series "Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine," he was recently offered a book deal by Simon & Shuster. Bucatinsky’s autobiographical tales of parenthood will be in bookstores by Father's Day in 2012.

In 2003, Bucatinsky partnered with Lisa Kudrow to launch Is Or Isn't Entertainment, a company best known for its Emmy®-nominated, critically acclaimed series The Comeback, starring Kudrow as “Valerie Cherish.”  In addition to executive producing, Bucatinsky played Valerie’s publicist, “Billy Stanton.”  The company then went on to produce the original online web series WEB THERAPY which garnered back-to-back Webby Award wins in 2010 and 2011 for Best Comedy Series and Best Individual Performance.  Additionally, Bucatinsky and Kudrow partnered with British production company Wall to Wall Productions to bring the hit, genealogy docu-series Who Do You Think You Are? to American Television.  The show premiered in March of 2010 to critical acclaim and after two strong seasons, a third has been ordered and is in pre-production for an early 2012 premiere.

As an actor, Bucatinsky has appeared on dozens of television programs, most recently recurring as Fred Geitlin on In Plain Sight.  He's also appeared on Grey's Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm and CSI: Miami. On the big screen, he appeared opposite Diane Lane in Under the Tuscan Sun, as well as Bounce and The Opposite of Sex – both directed by his partner of 17 years, filmmaker Don Roos. 

Don Roos

(Creator / Director)

DON ROOS is the screenwriter of Love Field, Single White Female, Boys on the Side, and the 1996 remake of Diabolique.

In 1998, he made his directorial debut with The Opposite of Sex, and won two Independent Spirit Awards for best first feature and best screenplay.

In 2000, Roos directed Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow in his script Bounce, and created the NBC series M.Y.O.B.  He then directed his script Happy Endings, which starred Lisa Kudrow and Maggie Gyllenhaal and opened the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.  Roos also directed the third season of the original online version of WEB THERAPY.  He is currently writing a pilot for HBO and casting his feature film, Swedish Berries, which he wrote and is slated to direct later this year.

He lives in Los Angeles with his spouse, the actor/writer Dan Bucatinsky, and their children Eliza & Jonah.

LILY  TOMLIN

(Guest star “Putsy Hodge”)



Lily Tomlin rose to national prominence in 1969 on the television series, Laugh-In, with her characterizations of Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the devilish six-year-old.  Tomlin went on to star in six comedy television specials between 1973 and 1982, which she also co-wrote with Jane Wagner.  In 1977, Tomlin made her Broadway debut in Appearing Nitely, written and directed by Jane Wagner.  Tomlin next appeared on Broadway in 1985 in Jane Wagner’s critically-acclaimed play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.      

On film, Tomlin’s debut in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) was nominated for an Academy Award, and the New York Film Critics and National Society of Film Critics voted Lily Best Supporting Actress.  She next starred opposite Art Carney in The Late Show (1977) and John Travolta in Jane Wagner’s Moment By Moment (1978); teamed with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in the comedy 9 to 5 (1980); starred as The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) and in Carl Reiner's All of Me (1984) and teamed with Bette Midler for Big Business (1988).  In the 90’s, Tomlin starred in the film The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe (1991); appeared as part of an ensemble cast in Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog (1992); starred opposite Tom Waits in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993); portrayed Miss Jane Hathaway in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993); starred in the films Flirting With Disaster (1996),  Getting Away with Murder (1996), Krippendorf’s Tribe (1998) and co-starred in Tea With Mussolini (1999).   Tomlin also starred with Bruce Willis in Disney’s The Kid (2000), appeared in Orange County (2002), co-starred in I Heart Huckabee’s (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and  appeared in The Walker (2007) and Pink Panther II (2009).

On television, Tomlin has been seen in many series, including The West Wing, Desperate Housewives, and the FX series, Damages. Throughout her career, Tomlin has received six Emmys, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, two Peabody Awards and numerous other notable awards for her acting, producing and narrating achievements, and was honored as the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington DC. Tomlin continues to appear around the country in concert performances. In 2011, she returned to Australia for several concert appearances and participated in the Mardi Gras Festival.