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Don't miss out on this unique one-on-one virtual visit with Norman Lear! 

Enjoy the unique opportunity to talk with one of the most influential TV and film writer and producers of our time in a private 30 minute Zoom call. 

Norman Lear is a television and film writer/producer whose dynamic career in Hollywood has encompassed both the Golden Age and Streaming Era. At 98, Norman Lear has no plans to retire.

His production banner, ACT III, has a first look deal with Sony Pictures Television.  He serves as executive producer to the critically acclaimed reimagining of One Day At A Time, which was resurrected for a fourth season by PopTV and airing on CBS, Mondays beginning October 5th.  He executively produces and co-hosts LIVE In Front of a Studio Audience...alongside Jimmy Kimmel. The series set set record ratings for ABC and won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special for two consecutive years. In addition to the soon to be released feature I Carry You With Me, Lear will also be Executive Producing a reimagining of Good Times - animated - coming to Netflix in 2021. 

Lear's social and political activism extend beyond the messaging of his programs and he continues to be a strong advocate for civic duty, and progressive American values. 

Born in 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut, Lear attended Emerson College before flying 52 combat missions over Europe during World War II. Upon his return, Norman began a sucessfull career writing and producing programs like The Colgate Comedy Hour, and The Martha Raye Show - Ultimately leading to Lear captivating 120 million viewers per week with his iconic shows of the 1970's and 80's - All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons and Mary Hartman. 

As Lear began witnessing the rise of the radical religious right, he put his television career on hold in 1980 to found People For The American Way.  Today, the organization is over one million members and activists strong and continues to fight right-wing extremism while defending constitutional values like free expression, religious liberty, equal justice under the law, and the right to meaningfully participate in our democracy.

Lear is a 2017 Kennedy Center Honoree; a recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, the Peabody Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016; and a proud member of the inaugural group of inductees to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. He has won six Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe.

Norman Lear is a father to six, a grandfather to four, and the husband of Lyn Davis Lear. 

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Zoom Meeting date and time will be scheduled upon mutual availability.