A Conversation With Paul Reubens, Film 2011, SXSW

Paul Reubens is best known for his character, Peewee Herman, which he created while a member of the famed Los Angeles improv group, The Groundlings. From its premiere in 1981, the stage production of The Peewee Herman Show quickly gained a national audience when it was broadcast by HBO. In 1985, Reubens cowrote the hit film, Peewee s Big Adventure. He went on to create, cowrite and codirect Peewee s Playhouse on CBS. The series earned 22 Emmy Awards over its five seasons. Recently, The Peewee Herman Show completed an acclaimed run on Broadway and was filmed, once again, for HBO. Join us as Paul discusses his remarkable body of work and the upcoming HBO special broadcast of The Peewee Herman Show on Broadway. We can t wait, and hope you can t either