Name Paul Simms Role Television writer | Education Harvard University | |
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Awards Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series Similar Tim Van Patten, Howard Korder, Lawrence Konner, Margaret Nagle, Joe Furey | ||
Movies and TV shows NewsRadio, Beach Lane | ||
Paul Simms (born 1966) is an American television writer and producer.
Simms spent some years of his life in Saudi Arabia, where his parents were school teachers. He graduated from Harvard University, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon and was a part-time student security guard, often during the night shift. He began his career in television writing for Late Night with David Letterman. Simms later wrote for the HBO program The Larry Sanders Show. He was the creator and head writer for the NBC sitcom NewsRadio. More recently, he has directed and produced for the HBO series The Flight of the Conchords and the FX series Atlanta. He has contributed pieces to The New Yorker and also wrote a sitcom pilot, Beach Lane, starring Matthew Broderick, for executive producer Lorne Michaels.