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Doug Rapp, Venice Current / SMDP Staff Writer
Evanston, Illinois, and Venice may not seem to have much in common, but they do for veteran TV writer and producer Jeffrey Lieber.
Growing up there, Lieber recalled Evanston as a “super-progressive” place, noting their recent push for reparations.
“When I moved to California, I started looking immediately for something that felt like that [Evanston],” Lieber said. “Venice does to me, in terms of being a complex, economically varied, racially and socially varied kind of place with all the upsides and downsides of that.”
Lieber left the Chicago area for L.A. in 1995, looking to transition from acting and playwriting into film and TV work. Living in Brentwood and Hollywood, he followed a familiar path to the entertainment industry: writing spec scripts, landing then losing agents.