But I didn't know them and I have since learned." Kauffman added, "If I knew then what I know now, there are certain things I would have changed. That was a very valid, extremely difficult criticism which still… I get emotional about." I was unaware of that, which makes me feel stupid. "I was clearly part of systemic racism in our business. "I'll never make that mistake again," she continued. And over the course of the last few years I've gotten to the point where I can say unfortunately yes, I am guilty of that." "The biggest one being that we did not have enough representation of Black people. " Friends has been criticized in a number of ways," she said. Kauffman also reiterated her regret about Friends' lack of diversity, a sentiment that recently led her to make a $4 million donation to Brandeis University's African and African American Studies department. I fired a guy on the spot for making a joke about a trans cameraperson. "It's very important to me that where we are is a safe place, a tolerant place, where there's no yelling. "I like very much to create an environment where we have a happy set and a happy crew," said Kauffman. Kauffman told the BBC that in the years since Friends aired, her approach has changed, and she's now more cognizant of issues like race and gender identity. "Pronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn't refer to that character as 'she.' That was a mistake." "We kept referring to as 'Chandler's father,' even though Chandler's father was trans," Kauffman said, according to the Huffington Post UK. Fox 21 Television Studios signed Okay Goodnight to a multi-year first-look agreement deal in January 2020, starting with The Dreamers novel adaptation The Littlefield Company is also in the deal.In an upcoming interview on the BBC's The Conversation, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman reveals she regrets the show's treatment of trans character Helena Handbasket (Kathleen Turner), who played one of Chandler's (Matthew Perry) parents. Okay Goodnight production company was headed by partners Kauffman, Robbie Rowe Tollin, and Hannah KS Canter. Kauffman married Michael Skloff, who composed the Friends theme song, and lived in Los Angeles. She then moved to Sherman Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Kauffman also studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City. During her time there, she was a sister of Sigma Delta Tau sorority. Kauffman attended Brandeis University and received a BA in theater in 1978.
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Without Crane she co-created the Netflix series Grace and Frankie.īorn to a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburbs, Kauffman attended Marple Newtown High School, located in the Marple Newtown School District near Philadelphia, where she was a thespian and student director of the school play "Our Town" in 1974.
Both writers were the creators of the HBO series Dream On. From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on Related. Kauffman and Crane produced Veronica's Closet and Jesse. Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin Bright. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom Friends with her longtime friend, David Crane Crane and Kauffman similarly were in a friend group with four other people. Marta Fran Kauffman (born September 21, 1956) is an American television writer and producer.
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