Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Adele Lim

Adele Lim courtesy of Red.fm

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on Executive Producer and writer Adele Lim.

Adele grew up in Malaysia and got her start in the “entertainment” industry via plays at her church and writing a column for the online magazine “The Star” when she was in her late teens and early 20’s. In 1996 she left Emerson College in Boston with a degree in TV and Film and decided to stay in the States rather than return to her home country. She and her future husband moved to Los Angeles and attempted to break into the industry.

As can be expected, that path didn’t work out very well (at first), but she did work some temporary jobs, including as a worker for the Dole/Kemp US presidential campaign, processed loans for a company that sold coin laundries and got paid to be in a live studio audience. Things changed, though, when she answered an advertisement in a trade magazine looking for assistants for TV scriptwriting staff.

Adele shared that her resume was non-existent so she was surprised that she got hired. From 2000 to 2002 she got to be a script coordinator on Xena: Warrior Princess and State of Grace as well as a writer Digimon: Digital Monsters. Later that position eventually gave her her first big break. She wrote a “raunchy Sex and the City script” that was read by one of the writers for whom she worked with, leading to her getting a staff writer job on the sci-fi show John Doe. Granted it took four years after getting the assistant job to land the staff writer position. In 2003, thanks to knowing someone from the John Doe creative team who worked for the TV series Las Vegas offered her job on the Show. She worked as an executive story editor, story editor and writer on that series.

Since that time, she has worked as a co-producer and writer on the short-lived series Pepper Dennis that starred Rebecca Romjin; and then she worked as a producer and writer on One Tree Hill for several seasons. She followed those jobs with a supervising producer and writer position on the short-lived US remake of Life on Mars and then a multi-hat position on the acclaimed series Life Unexpected where she worked as a writer, consulting producer, supervising producer and co-executive producer.

Over the last few TV seasons, she has worked as a writer and consulting producer on the mini-series Missing that starred Ashley Judd as well as working as a co-executive producer and writer for Private Practice.

Most recently, she signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios. She will work as a co-showrunner and executive producer for the new CW drama series Star-Crossed that is expected to debut in mid-season next year.

Fans can follow Adele at Twitter @adeleBlim and follow her at Facebook here.

[(Source: The Star Online]