the team

PHIL RIVO

Executive Producer · “Bob”

Phil has been a fixture on the Northeast comedy scene for years. In 2010, he founded “All Points Borscht,” a comedy spectacular that has raised a quarter-million dollars for various charities. At the annual event, Phil has opened for comedians such as Todd Barry, Judy Gold, and Jessica Kirson, among others.

When not performing, Phil has produced independent feature films throughout the United States and Europe, and worked on the scripts for films such as Toxic Avenger, Parts II and III, and Class of Nuke ’Em High, Parts II and III. He executive-produced Final Exam, a drama about race relations in the classroom, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival and was distributed by Peachtree Entertainment. He was also a producer on Adam Nadler’s Shoot George. Phil is the executive producer on Adam’s latest project, Totally Sick, a comedy series about cancer.


KERRI LOUISE

“Carol”

Comic Kerri Louise has just appeared on a new Showtime Comedy Special called Funny Women of a Certain Age, streaming now.

Kerri has been on Oprah, Dr. Oz, and The Howard Stern Show. She was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and starred in her own reality-TV show called Two Funny, on The WE Network. Kerri has been featured on Comedy Central, VH1, and TrueTV countless times. She’s been on The Montel Williams Show, The Apprentice, and America’s Got Talent. You’ve seen her on Comics Unleashed and Gotham Live, as well as doing warm-up for The View. She performs at the top comedy clubs and festivals nationwide.

Kerri lives in New York with her comedian husband, Tom Cotter, and their three sons. Being in a household full of testosterone, Kerri needed an escape. Which is why her webisode, "My Mommy Minute,” has been very popular on YouTube for almost a decade. That audience inspired Kerri to write Mean Mommy, a funny how-to mom book, and a children’s book, Harry the Elephant Has an Allergy, both on sale now on Amazon.

This two-time author, hilarious comic, and mother of three (four if you count her husband) can be found performing all over the country. For Kerri’s tour dates and social media, go to www.KerriLouise.com.


ADAM NADLER

Writer / Director

Adam Nadler is a screenwriter and independent filmmaker. His short film “The Magic Violin” was distributed by Tapestry International and shown on The Movie Channel, on multiple overseas broadcasts, and at the premiere of Lincoln Center’s “Movies for Kids” series. His short film “Five Card Stud” was produced in a master class with Martin Scorsese and won a Gold Apple from the National Educational Film & Video Festival.

Adam’s feature-length comedy, Shoot George, appeared at the Woodstock Film Festival and won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Arlene’s Grocery Picture Show. The film was also licensed to Rainbow Media, CinemaNow, and Bside.com.

Adam has an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Film School, where he received several honors, including the Best Comedy Award, the Best Graduate Editor Award, and the Warner Bros. Fellowship. Since school, Adam has worked in post-production in Los Angeles and New York, and taught film editing, production, and directing at the City College of the City University of New York, and screenwriting at New York University’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies. He has been honored with NYU’s Service Torch Pin.

Adam is currently on staff at Graydon Carter’s digital weekly AIR MAIL and teaches screenwriting for the David Lynch MFA in Screenwriting program at Maharishi International University, in Fairfield, Iowa. Adam’s latest project, the comedy series Totally Sick, was inspired by his own battle with cancer. The pilot script for the series has been a top finalist in several competitions, including TrackingB and Table Read My Screenplay, Park City.

the show

Remember Love Story ? That movie where two beautiful young people fall in love and the girl gets cancer and dies and it’s really sad but also heartwarming?

This isn’t like that at all.

Remember The Fault in Our Stars ? Where a teenage boy and a teenage girl meet in a support group for kids with cancer and the boy dies and it’s really sad but also heartwarming?

This isn’t like that, either.

How about all those great TV shows? Alexa and Katie ! Ill Behavior ! And almost every TV movie ever made? Aren’t they the best!

Don’t you always cry your eyes out when those wonderful people get cancer and die?

You bet. Every time. This is DEFINITELY not like any of those.

(Well, except maybe Love Story, but only if Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw were miserable, potty-mouthed sexaholics who can’t stand each other.)

This is because Totally Sick is about BOB AND CAROL, two lonely, cynical, abrasive, bawdy, not particularly attractive but funny-as-hell forty-something New Yorkers who meet online, and they’re both so screwed up that when one of them gets cancer, it’s the least of their problems.