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Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are American screenwriters, collaborating on the screenplays for animated films including the Despicable Me franchise, Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax and The Secret Life of Pets.
Aug 23, 2021 · Cinco Paul loves musicals — unlike his long-time writing partner, Ken Daurio, with whom he created the new Apple TV+ satire, 'Schmigadoon!' Their series centers on a couple who become trapped in...
Schmigadoon! is an American musical comedy television series created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, with all songs written by Paul, who also serves as showrunner. [5] The Apple TV+ series premiered July 16, 2021, [7] starring an ensemble cast led by Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key.
Aug 23, 2021 · It stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a couple who try to repair their relationship by taking a hike in the woods. They get lost in the woods, cross over a bridge, and suddenly...
- Terry Gross
- Not That Church Musical
- The ‘Schmigadoon’ Story
- That’S All, Folks
- ‘Just Little Things’
In 1997, the Church of Jesus Christ’s leaders in Newbury Park, California, asked Paul to oversee their play to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Saints’ arrival in the Great Salt Lake Valley. He said no. He was already making a living as a screenwriter, but he hadn’t done anything big yet. He had, however, written a few road shows and youth ...
Paul wanted to go back. He wanted to return to the familiar, in more ways than one. Foremost, he wanted to reembrace the sorts of stories he and Daurio had written before striking it big in kids entertainment. For him, “Schmigadoon!” was a return to the realm of risque stories like “Special.” “That sort of live-action comedy,” Paul explains, “which...
Daurio needed to talk. For days, for months, for years, a feeling had built up inside him. He’d squashed it down, figuring he’d be able to accept his new reality eventually. But the further he ventured into the world of grown-up entertainment, the more he longed for the comfort of his past; for the PG. “We had been in family world for so long, and ...
On a Tuesday afternoon in September, Cinco Paul joins a conference call from Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Tall and lanky, with a face and smile reminiscent of a blue-eyed Bill Nye the Science Guy, he makes small talk until Ken Daurio enters the Zoom meeting a few minutes late, calling from Los Angeles. “Hey guys, how’s it going?” he laughs. Shorter...
Jun 23, 2021 · For a stretch of the early aughts, screenwriting partners Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul struggled to sell scripts. It was an effort made no easier by their unorthodox style of pitching to...
Aug 25, 2021 · Paul co-created and co-wrote the Apple TV+ series alongside his longtime creative partner Ken Daurio (Despicable Me). He also also served as showrunner and composed each delightful song of Schmigadoon! 's six-episode season.
