![]() ![]() ![]() After that I did stints on “Mad Men” and “Nurse Jackie.”Ĭompany Town ‘It’s just pure chaos’: Top Hollywood showrunners explain the writers’ strike Later that same year, I went to work on “Six Feet Under” during its first season, and I stayed with the series through its finale in 2005. ![]() It was only my second episode of television. In 2000, I shared an Emmy Award for outstanding writing for a drama series with Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator. ![]() My second job writing for TV was for Season 1 of “The West Wing,” and my title on that series was co-producer. That movie got me my first TV writing job, a summer replacement series for ABC titled “Maximum Bob.” Three years later in 1998, I adapted an original stage play of my own as a screenplay, and that movie, “Jerry and Tom,” earned a spot at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1995, I graduated from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop, and that same year Universal Studios optioned a screenplay I had written, earning me a union card in the Writers Guild of America.įor the first time in my adult life I had health insurance and a pension plan and an office in Barry Kemp’s production company (creator of “Newhart” and “Coach”). ![]()
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