Award-winning television producer David Simon, creator of The Wire, and Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List and Bowdoin’s inaugural Herman S. Dreer Leadership Fellow, were interviewed on campus for a pair of segments that aired on WCSH’s newsmagazine 207.
David Simon (left) and Franklin Leonard interviewed by Rob Caldwell, host of the WCSH newsmagazine 207, in the admissions buiiding.
The two discussed the challenges facing the entertainment industry, including the growing influence of artificial intelligence, the importance of bringing underrepresented voices into the industry, and the future of storytelling.
Simon was on campus September 28, 2026, to deliver the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture, which took the form of a conversation with Leonard as part of Bowdoin’s Viewpoint Exchange series.
