Interview:Adam Armus and Kay Foster

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On January 15, 2008, Ryan Gibson Stewart conducted an interview with Adam Armus and Kay Foster. Adam and Kay are both producers for Heroes, and have been writing partners for a number of years. Together, they wrote Homecoming, Run!, and The Line.

Ryan Stewart: So you two have been writing partners for some time now.

Adam Armus: Yes. We've been writing partners since about '94. I think '94 was our first gig on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. We've been together a long time, going on fourteen years now. We met in the waning days of our former careers. Kay was selling furniture at the time--

Kay Foster: --I was a sales and marketing rep for a furniture company--

AA: --and I was a lawyer. We were both dismissed from our jobs. Her company closed down. My law firm department closed down. So we were both out of jobs. We both took a screenwriting class together. UCLA has these adult extension courses where adults can go back to school and learn specific things. We both took a class and that's where we met.

RS: When was that?

KF: Probably in '91 or '92. Both of our companies closed because of the recession.

RS: And you hit it off immediately?

[at the same time] AA: Yeah. KF: No.

[all laugh]

KF: Ah, I'm just saying that. We wanted to write sitcoms. That's really the class we were in and how we started out. We wanted to be funny. And...

AA: ...and we failed miserably. [all laugh] We both were writing sitcom scripts, and we realized that the stories we each had combined together to make a good script. So we combined our stories together and we submitted a script to the Warner Bros. New Comedy Writers Workshop, which is the let's-discover-new-people thing that Warner Bros. does. I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but they did it back then. It was basically them trying to find new talent. If you are successful, they place you, and you could get jobs, agents, and things like that. So we got into that program and from there we got our first gig on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

RS: Wow. That's quite a first gig!

KF: It was a good first gig.

AA: It was a great first gig. We had a lot of hands on experience. In those days, the days of Hercules in syndication, there was not a lot of studio or network involvement in anything. It was basically us doing our thing. We really cut our teeth and learned how to write television from Hercules, and also Xena. We did a number of Xena: Warrior Princesses.

KF: More Xenas.

RS: And those are definitely not sitcoms.

KF: Definitely not.

AA: We were not funny, as I said.

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