“Conversations in L.A.” is the brainchild of creator Anne Marie Cummings. Following her drama education at Carnegie Mellon University, she spent the next 30 years honing her craft as a regional theatre actress, Off-Broadway playwright, director, producer, as well as artistic director of her own theatre company in Upstate New York called The Readers’ Theatre of Ithaca. But things began to shift when Anne Marie moved her theatre company out of a black box theatre into a movie theatre where she began to screen a few of her plays in her first, and simplistic attempts, at the one-shot style. Her inspiration came from one-shot films such as “Birdman,” and the German film, “Victoria.” This was when she asked herself: “How can I create, in my own unique way, the exhilarating and continuous experience that actors have, on stage, but for television, since I’ve never seen that done before?” Her curiosity got the best of her so she sold her home, moved to L.A., studied screenwriting with award-winning TV writer Ron Osborn (“Moonlighting”), and then wrote a conversation between two characters as a one-shot episode. This was the start of “Conversations in L.A.”