Sessions
Session IV: Hollywood, Culture and Social Impact Moderated by MSNBC's Richard Lui
12:10 PM - 12:55 PM Wed
Message of Diversity
12:55 PM - 1:55 PM Wed
Message of Diversity
3:30 PM - 3:35 PM Wed
After directing stage plays and teaching drama in the 1960s and 1970s, he received his first opportunity directing television in 1976 with an episode of the sitcom Rhoda, "Rhoda Questions Her Life and Flies to Paris". Since that time he has directed episodes of several well-known sitcoms including Benson, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, and Who's the Boss?, for which he directed 117 episodes and also was a producer on 51 episodes.
Kelada spoke with DGA Magazine and said that good casting is essential to the success of a comedy, because "you cannot make the actor be funny". He said that where drama is "analytical," comedy is "much more technical. It's about rhythm, timing, pace, and energy."