Founded in 2001


Efficiency Studios is the brainchild of playwright & long-time TV producer Scott Carter.

Scott Carter on Set
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Scott Carter is the Creator/Executive Producer/Host of the YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER podcast, distributed by the NPR Network and produced by WGCU and Efficiency Studios.

Carter was Executive Producer / Co-creator of Regional Emmy-winning talk show LOVE & RESPECT WITH KILLER MIKE (PBS / REVOLT TV). Before that, he  was nominated for 21 Primetime Emmys as Executive Producer / Writer of the first 1,100 episodes of POLITICALLY INCORRECT WITH BILL MAHER  (Comedy Central, ABC) and the first 500 episodes of REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (HBO), for which he won Producers Guild of America and Writers Guild of America awards. He  has also created and/or produced talk shows for Lewis Black (Comedy Central), Candice Bergen (Oxygen Media), Kevin Nealon (Spike TV), and most recently, Bob Costas (HBO). 

His play, I, WILL, will be featured at the inaugural New Play Initiative at Baylor University this fall. His previous play, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD, has been produced in 26 cities in four countries.

Carter’s 2024 TEDx talk “Indivisible” may be seen on Youtube.

Mr. Carter has an omnivorous curiosity and he keeps an open mind as he pursues his own path to spiritual enlightenment…
— Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times
Scott Carter and Salmon Rushdie
Scott Carter and Mel Brooks
Scott Carter and Neil Degrasse Tyson
Scott Carter and guest