Plebs: Q&A with Sam Leifer

Anglonerd magazine had the opportunity to ask Sam Leifer a few questions about Plebs, the sitcom he co-wrote and directs. With a degree in Classics, majoring in history and literature, Leifer spent ten years working on this sitcom about young men living in Ancient Rome. What was the initial idea that became Plebs? The script Tom Basden (my co-writer)…

Plebs

Plebs (2013-2014) is Sam Leifer’s sitcom about three young men in ancient Rome. It stars Tom Rosenthal, Joel Fry, and Ryan Sampson. It’s available on Hulu, DVD region 2/PAL, and Blu-Ray (non-US). In ancient Rome, the commoners were called the Plebeians. They were the working class, compared to the elite patricians. Although the time of Rome that…