Paul Scott Adamo
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Over ten years experience working as Celebrity Booker/Talent Coordinator, Casting Director and Producer for Television Series & Specials, Talk Shows, Reality Programs and Documentaries. For more information on Paul's work, you can view his website at: www.pauladamoentertainment.com
In addition to booking thousands of celebrities, Mr. Adamo has extensive experience working as a Casting Director for Reality and Nonfiction Television Series.
Booked over 3,000 guests ranging from celebrities and experts to real people and top authors including many New York Times Best Sellers. Well-developed Rolodex with thousands of contacts to celebrities, show hosts, highly credentialed authors and experts in all areas such as health and fitness, relationships, fashion, self-discovery, alternative medicine, business, finance, beauty, psychology, interior design, sexuality, cooking, breaking news commentary, etc.
Ability to persuade "difficult to book" guests and convince their agents, managers and publicists to "land the booking."
Long standing relationships with publicists, managers, celebrities, authors, etc.
Produced segments and developed story ideas.
Booked thousands of entertainment personalities including: Sarah Jessica Parker, Clint Eastwood, Colin Powell, Alec Baldwin, Beyonce’ Knowles, Susan Sarandon, Michael Jackson, Ashley Judd, Martin Sheen, Oscar De La Hoya, Matt Lauer, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rachel Ray, Sally Field, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Ferguson The Duchess Of York, Patti LaBelle, Wesley Snipes, Susan Lucci, Wyclef Jean, Master P, Mark Burnett, Chris Rock, Rachel Hunter, Tiki Barber, Larry King, Yao Ming, James Caan, Cedric The Entertainer, William Baldwin, Lil’ Kim, Clive Davis, Regis Philbin, etc.
Booked many best-selling authors including: Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan, Frank McCourt, Alan M. Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, John Edward, Deepak Chopra, Gloria Steinem, Anthony Robbins, John Bradshaw, John Gray, Iyanla Vanzant, Betty Eadie, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Char Margolis, James Redfield, etc.
In addition to booking thousands of celebrities, Mr. Adamo has extensive experience working as a Casting Director for Reality and Nonfiction Television Series.
Booked over 3,000 guests ranging from celebrities and experts to real people and top authors including many New York Times Best Sellers. Well-developed Rolodex with thousands of contacts to celebrities, show hosts, highly credentialed authors and experts in all areas such as health and fitness, relationships, fashion, self-discovery, alternative medicine, business, finance, beauty, psychology, interior design, sexuality, cooking, breaking news commentary, etc.
Ability to persuade "difficult to book" guests and convince their agents, managers and publicists to "land the booking."
Long standing relationships with publicists, managers, celebrities, authors, etc.
Produced segments and developed story ideas.
Booked thousands of entertainment personalities including: Sarah Jessica Parker, Clint Eastwood, Colin Powell, Alec Baldwin, Beyonce’ Knowles, Susan Sarandon, Michael Jackson, Ashley Judd, Martin Sheen, Oscar De La Hoya, Matt Lauer, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rachel Ray, Sally Field, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Ferguson The Duchess Of York, Patti LaBelle, Wesley Snipes, Susan Lucci, Wyclef Jean, Master P, Mark Burnett, Chris Rock, Rachel Hunter, Tiki Barber, Larry King, Yao Ming, James Caan, Cedric The Entertainer, William Baldwin, Lil’ Kim, Clive Davis, Regis Philbin, etc.
Booked many best-selling authors including: Maya Angelou, Terry McMillan, Frank McCourt, Alan M. Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, John Edward, Deepak Chopra, Gloria Steinem, Anthony Robbins, John Bradshaw, John Gray, Iyanla Vanzant, Betty Eadie, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Char Margolis, James Redfield, etc.
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Credits and Employment History
Talent Producer/Celebrity Booker, TV Land Confidential. Talent Producer and Celebrity Booker for television series that airs on TV Land Network (85 million households). Produced by BrainStorm, Inc.
Talent Producer, The A List On Animal Planet. Responsibilities include booking celebrity commentators for this pop culture series that airs on Animal Planet (Discovery Networks).
Talent & Celebrity Booker, The Montel Williams Show. Produced by Paramount Domestic Television, this nationally syndicated television series is one of America's most watched daytime shows. It has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards and airs in 197 markets.
Casting Director, A&E Television Networks. Casting Director for Back To The Blueprint, a reality/home renovation series for The History Channel (A&E Television Networks).
Celebrity Booker and Segment Producer for B. Smith With Style. Produced by Hearst Entertainment and True Entertainment (an Endemol Company). Nationally syndicated lifestyle/reality television series seen in over 90% of the United States including many NBC affiliates such as WNBC-TV in New York, KNBC-TV in Los Angeles and WMAQ-TV in Chicago. It also aired on The Discovery Channel, The Food Network and can be seen on TV One Lifestyle & Entertainment Television and in 22 countries.
Coordinating Producer and Casting Director, Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home. Produced by Weller/Grossman Productions, this nationally syndicated television series can be seen on HGTV (Home & Garden Television) which has an audience of over eighty million households.
Celebrity Booker/Casting Director, E! Entertainment Television (83 million viewers). Worked as Celebrity Booker/Casting Director for Trophy Wife, a new reality series produced by Sokolobl Entertainment that will air on E! Entertainment Television.
Casting Director, The Learning Channel (TLC- eighty seven million homes in the U.S. - part of Discovery Networks.) Casting Director for Honey, We're Killing The Kids, a prime-time television series that shows how to raise healthy children. Produced by BBC Productions USA
Celebrity Booker, Famous Homes & Hideaways. Hosted by noted television personality and journalist Donna Hanover, this nationally syndicated television series is distributed by Hearst Entertainment and produced by Zone 3 Productions. It airs in over 180 markets.
Casting Director, Small Space: Big Style. This lifestyle/reality television series airs on HGTV (Home & Garden Television Network). Produced by BrainBox Productions.
Talent Coordinator/Segment Producer for the Emmy Award winning PBS primetime news magazine/public affairs television series California Connected.
Acted as Segment Producer and Celebrity Booker for The A&E Network's Ultimate Holiday Town USA (Atlas Media Corp.), The Story of Fashion, The Divided Union and Australia Live! A Bicentennial Celebration, and for Group W Productions' national Christmas Television Special There Really Is A Santa Claus that aired on many NBC affiliates.
Talent Coordinator, The Top Cops Awards. Produced by SilverSpring Studios (the production company of John Walsh), this awards show honors police officers who are involved in the top ten cases in the country. Hosted by John Walsh, it has been attended by Bill and Hillary Clinton. It has also aired as a one-hour special on America's Most Wanted on Fox Television.
Produced segments and booked celebrity guests for many national television series including PM Magazine, People Are Talking, Photoplay, Playboy Interviews (an award winning celebrity interview series) that aired on The Playboy Channel and Star Gardens, produced by Weller/Grossman Productions and hosted by Rob Weller which aired on HGTV (Home & Garden Television). Work on other television series includes Entertainment Tonight, Fox Television's Made in New York and WNYC-TV's News of New York.
For Columbia Pictures Television, Co-Produced and Directed Renee' Taylor and Joseph Bologna: Still Made for Each Other, a documentary that profiles the life of Renee' Taylor and Joseph Bologna and features interviews with Jane Fonda and Martin Sheen. Footage from this documentary is featured in the Broadway Show If You Ever Leave Me, I'm Going With You.
My television documentaries have been shown in Los Angeles at The American Film Institute, EZTV Gallery and on KCBS-TV. In New York, my work has been seen on Broadway at The Cort Theatre, The Kitchen, The Martin Lawrence Gallery and aired on PBS. My documentary Alice (on noted drama coach Alice Spivak), is part of the permanent collection of The Theater on Film and Tape Archive At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts At Lincoln Center.
Active member of The Producers Guild Of America and The Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences.
Talent Producer, The A List On Animal Planet. Responsibilities include booking celebrity commentators for this pop culture series that airs on Animal Planet (Discovery Networks).
Talent & Celebrity Booker, The Montel Williams Show. Produced by Paramount Domestic Television, this nationally syndicated television series is one of America's most watched daytime shows. It has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards and airs in 197 markets.
Casting Director, A&E Television Networks. Casting Director for Back To The Blueprint, a reality/home renovation series for The History Channel (A&E Television Networks).
Celebrity Booker and Segment Producer for B. Smith With Style. Produced by Hearst Entertainment and True Entertainment (an Endemol Company). Nationally syndicated lifestyle/reality television series seen in over 90% of the United States including many NBC affiliates such as WNBC-TV in New York, KNBC-TV in Los Angeles and WMAQ-TV in Chicago. It also aired on The Discovery Channel, The Food Network and can be seen on TV One Lifestyle & Entertainment Television and in 22 countries.
Coordinating Producer and Casting Director, Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home. Produced by Weller/Grossman Productions, this nationally syndicated television series can be seen on HGTV (Home & Garden Television) which has an audience of over eighty million households.
Celebrity Booker/Casting Director, E! Entertainment Television (83 million viewers). Worked as Celebrity Booker/Casting Director for Trophy Wife, a new reality series produced by Sokolobl Entertainment that will air on E! Entertainment Television.
Casting Director, The Learning Channel (TLC- eighty seven million homes in the U.S. - part of Discovery Networks.) Casting Director for Honey, We're Killing The Kids, a prime-time television series that shows how to raise healthy children. Produced by BBC Productions USA
Celebrity Booker, Famous Homes & Hideaways. Hosted by noted television personality and journalist Donna Hanover, this nationally syndicated television series is distributed by Hearst Entertainment and produced by Zone 3 Productions. It airs in over 180 markets.
Casting Director, Small Space: Big Style. This lifestyle/reality television series airs on HGTV (Home & Garden Television Network). Produced by BrainBox Productions.
Talent Coordinator/Segment Producer for the Emmy Award winning PBS primetime news magazine/public affairs television series California Connected.
Acted as Segment Producer and Celebrity Booker for The A&E Network's Ultimate Holiday Town USA (Atlas Media Corp.), The Story of Fashion, The Divided Union and Australia Live! A Bicentennial Celebration, and for Group W Productions' national Christmas Television Special There Really Is A Santa Claus that aired on many NBC affiliates.
Talent Coordinator, The Top Cops Awards. Produced by SilverSpring Studios (the production company of John Walsh), this awards show honors police officers who are involved in the top ten cases in the country. Hosted by John Walsh, it has been attended by Bill and Hillary Clinton. It has also aired as a one-hour special on America's Most Wanted on Fox Television.
Produced segments and booked celebrity guests for many national television series including PM Magazine, People Are Talking, Photoplay, Playboy Interviews (an award winning celebrity interview series) that aired on The Playboy Channel and Star Gardens, produced by Weller/Grossman Productions and hosted by Rob Weller which aired on HGTV (Home & Garden Television). Work on other television series includes Entertainment Tonight, Fox Television's Made in New York and WNYC-TV's News of New York.
For Columbia Pictures Television, Co-Produced and Directed Renee' Taylor and Joseph Bologna: Still Made for Each Other, a documentary that profiles the life of Renee' Taylor and Joseph Bologna and features interviews with Jane Fonda and Martin Sheen. Footage from this documentary is featured in the Broadway Show If You Ever Leave Me, I'm Going With You.
My television documentaries have been shown in Los Angeles at The American Film Institute, EZTV Gallery and on KCBS-TV. In New York, my work has been seen on Broadway at The Cort Theatre, The Kitchen, The Martin Lawrence Gallery and aired on PBS. My documentary Alice (on noted drama coach Alice Spivak), is part of the permanent collection of The Theater on Film and Tape Archive At The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts At Lincoln Center.
Active member of The Producers Guild Of America and The Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences.
Education
Graduated with honors from The School of Visual Arts College in New York City and received a BFA in Film and Video.
Other Skills/Additional Information
"Paul always elevates our show with his keen eye for talent, his consummate professionalism, and his ability to come through under very stressful deadlines! It seems as if no one can say 'no' to Paul Scott Adamo." - Maryann Welker, Executive Producer, HGTV - (Home & Garden Television Network)
"As Talent Producer, Paul Scott Adamo is our secret weapon. We could not have done our show without him. He literally pulled off a miracle. In the first two seasons, he booked over 250 top-name guests." - David Levin, Executive Producer, "TV Land Confidential" (TV Land Network)
“We were thrilled to have Paul Scott Adamo as Celebrity Booker for “The Montel Williams Show.” He booked A-List Celebrity Guests. I recommend him highly.” - Diane Rappoport, Former Executive Producer, “The Montel Williams Show”
"I had a pilot, and couldn't find the right host. Paul Scott Adamo came on as Casting Director, and out of a big haystack - he found me the right needle. Two years later, we're still going strong." - Sean McKnight, Supervising Producer, "Back To The Blueprint" - The History Channel (A&E Networks)
"This is to recommend Paul Scott Adamo for his outstanding work. Paul is skilled at booking the most sought-after celebrity guests." - B. Smith, Host and Executive Producer, "B. Smith With Style" (Nationally Syndicated - including WNBC-TV in New York and KNBC-TV in Los Angeles)
"Paul Scott Adamo Produced, Directed and Edited a Video Tape Documentary on our careers entitled 'Still Made For Each Other' which received much critical praise. Paul is exceptionally talented when it comes to working with notable personalities. The production featured interviews with Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, etc. Clips from the documentary were seen in our Broadway Show. His producing, directing, editing, writing and general knowledge of the industry are to be commended." - Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna
"I have known Paul Adamo for many years. He is a man of intelligence, sensitivity and integrity. His knowledge and extensive involvement in both the creative and technical aspects of television and film have amazed me for some time now. He is amicable and effective in dealing with people. I find his projects imaginative." - Diahann Carroll- actress/singer
"Paul Scott Adamo was a critical member of our team. He accomplished his work with finesse and positive energy, on time, and of course most importantly, on budget. He would make an excellent member of any production team." - Joan Takefman, Supervising Producer, "Famous Homes and Hideaways" (Nationally Syndicated)
"I worked with Paul as The A&E Television Network's Celebrity Booker. Paul was instrumental in acquiring many major celebrities. Paul is a conscientious professional. He is resourceful and achieves his goals on schedule. He would be an asset to any organization and I recommend him strongly." - Marc Chalom, Vice President Of Production and Executive Producer, A&E Television Network
"I am writing to commend and recommend Paul Scott Adamo. I am Supervising Producer of a long-running award winning Celebrity Interview Series on The Playboy Channel. It is Paul's job to find the talent...and this he does exceedingly well. Paul has a superior attitude toward his work. Coupling that with a real can-do ability and developed sense of importance of deadlines, he certainly makes my life more enjoyable. There are times when a great deal of pressure falls to Paul; I never find him wanting. He is well connected and very dedicated. So along with this note comes my complete faith, confidence and endorsement" - Gary Moskowitz, Supervising Producer, Playboy Programs, Inc.
"Paul Scott Adamo has been my Morning Show Producer and Celebrity Booker for over two years. The content and pacing of the program is amazing. With Paul's celebrity contacts and flair for the unusual, we have the #1 morning show. And we did that with Paul. The guy is a one person entertainment machine." - John Harper, WFAS-FM Program Director/Morning Show Host
"As Talent Producer, Paul Scott Adamo is our secret weapon. We could not have done our show without him. He literally pulled off a miracle. In the first two seasons, he booked over 250 top-name guests." - David Levin, Executive Producer, "TV Land Confidential" (TV Land Network)
“We were thrilled to have Paul Scott Adamo as Celebrity Booker for “The Montel Williams Show.” He booked A-List Celebrity Guests. I recommend him highly.” - Diane Rappoport, Former Executive Producer, “The Montel Williams Show”
"I had a pilot, and couldn't find the right host. Paul Scott Adamo came on as Casting Director, and out of a big haystack - he found me the right needle. Two years later, we're still going strong." - Sean McKnight, Supervising Producer, "Back To The Blueprint" - The History Channel (A&E Networks)
"This is to recommend Paul Scott Adamo for his outstanding work. Paul is skilled at booking the most sought-after celebrity guests." - B. Smith, Host and Executive Producer, "B. Smith With Style" (Nationally Syndicated - including WNBC-TV in New York and KNBC-TV in Los Angeles)
"Paul Scott Adamo Produced, Directed and Edited a Video Tape Documentary on our careers entitled 'Still Made For Each Other' which received much critical praise. Paul is exceptionally talented when it comes to working with notable personalities. The production featured interviews with Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, etc. Clips from the documentary were seen in our Broadway Show. His producing, directing, editing, writing and general knowledge of the industry are to be commended." - Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna
"I have known Paul Adamo for many years. He is a man of intelligence, sensitivity and integrity. His knowledge and extensive involvement in both the creative and technical aspects of television and film have amazed me for some time now. He is amicable and effective in dealing with people. I find his projects imaginative." - Diahann Carroll- actress/singer
"Paul Scott Adamo was a critical member of our team. He accomplished his work with finesse and positive energy, on time, and of course most importantly, on budget. He would make an excellent member of any production team." - Joan Takefman, Supervising Producer, "Famous Homes and Hideaways" (Nationally Syndicated)
"I worked with Paul as The A&E Television Network's Celebrity Booker. Paul was instrumental in acquiring many major celebrities. Paul is a conscientious professional. He is resourceful and achieves his goals on schedule. He would be an asset to any organization and I recommend him strongly." - Marc Chalom, Vice President Of Production and Executive Producer, A&E Television Network
"I am writing to commend and recommend Paul Scott Adamo. I am Supervising Producer of a long-running award winning Celebrity Interview Series on The Playboy Channel. It is Paul's job to find the talent...and this he does exceedingly well. Paul has a superior attitude toward his work. Coupling that with a real can-do ability and developed sense of importance of deadlines, he certainly makes my life more enjoyable. There are times when a great deal of pressure falls to Paul; I never find him wanting. He is well connected and very dedicated. So along with this note comes my complete faith, confidence and endorsement" - Gary Moskowitz, Supervising Producer, Playboy Programs, Inc.
"Paul Scott Adamo has been my Morning Show Producer and Celebrity Booker for over two years. The content and pacing of the program is amazing. With Paul's celebrity contacts and flair for the unusual, we have the #1 morning show. And we did that with Paul. The guy is a one person entertainment machine." - John Harper, WFAS-FM Program Director/Morning Show Host
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