Scott Carter (playwright)

Scott Carter is Executive Producer/Writer for “Real Time With Bill Maher.” He produced the first 1,100 episodes of “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher,” from its 1993 Comedy Central debut to its 1997 move to ABC. While at “P.I.,” producer/writer Carter received eight Emmy nominations and three consecutive CableAce Awards for Best Talk Series. In 1997, Variety named him one of “50 Creatives To Watch.” In 2007, he won the Producers’ Guild Of America’s Johnny Carson Award for “Real Time.” In 2000, Carter left “P.I.” for Oxygen Media to serve as Executive Producer for two seasons of “Exhale With Candice Bergen.” He also produced “Conversations From The Edge with Carrie Fisher: George Lucas” from Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch and “Oxygen Forum: Al Gore,” a live 90-minute town hall in 2000. He also created “The Conspiracy Zone with Kevin Nealon” for what is now SpikeTV.

He was also Co-Executive Producer/Co-Head Writer For “Earth To America,” a two hour special on TBS in 2005. He also served for two seasons as Co-Creator, Executive Producer/Writer for “Lewis Black’s Root Of All Evil” on Comedy Central and “Curb: The Discussion With Susie Essman” for the TV Guide Channel.

Carter began his TV career as a writer for MTV’s “Mouth To Mouth” in 1988. He then served as producer/writer for three other Comedy Central projects produced by HBO Downtown Productions: “Night After Night With Allen Havey” (1989-92), “Sports Monster” (1990-91), and “The Olympiacs” (1992).

Carter performed stand-up regularly through the 1980s in major comedy clubs across the country, including The Comic Strip, The Original Improvisation, Catch a Rising Star, and The Comedy Store. He has also written two full-length monologues (“Heavy Breathing” and “Suspension Bridge”) which he’s performed at The Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival, The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, Garry Marshall’s Falcon Theatre, Michael Patrick King’s Arcade, The HBO Workspace, Primary Stages, Manhattan Punch-line, Dixon Place, The Cleveland Performance Festival, The Skirball Cultural Center, and The Murphy’s Cat Laughs Festival (in Kilkenny, Ireland).

His full-length play, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, was produced at both the NoHo Arts Center and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in 2014 and was published by Dramatists Play Service in 2015.

Carter was raised in Tucson, Arizona. He attended the University of Arizona and was inducted into The University Of Arizona Wildcat Hall Of Fame. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Bebe Johnson. They have two daughters, Calla and Colette.