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Bridget Bedard is a television writer and producer who has garnered four Peabody Awards, a Golden Globe, both Writers and Producers Guild awards, as well as multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Bridget Bedard grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Film Studies then earned her MFA in Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch, Bedard received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Screen Gems Inc., The Wasserman Awards, and was named Best Female Student Director by the Directors Guild of America – East. Her thesis film, BABY, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and aired on the Sundance Channel and cable networks worldwide.
Bedard taught screenwriting and directing before making her television writing debut in 2007 on Mad Men , for which she won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series and a Peabody. Following Mad Men, she was a writer and producer on Ray Romano's Men of a Certain Age, for which she also won a Peabody.
In 2014 Bridget teamed up with Joey Soloway as the head writer on the first season of the acclaimed series, Transparent , the success of which is often credited with the launch of Amazon Studios. She became an Executive Producer going into Season Three and took on the role of showrunner for Season Four. Transparent is the winner of eight Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, one Peabody Award, a BAFTA, Critics Choice Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Producers Guild of America Award.
In 2018, after four seasons of Transparent, Bridget signed an overall deal with Hulu where she was the showrunner on season one of A24's Ramy. The show was awarded the Audience award at SXSW in addition to being nominated for Breakthrough series at the Gotham Independent Film Awards and for three Golden Globes for its first season, winning one. She went on to sign an overall deal at Warner Media where she co-showran Love Life for two seasons. She is currently in an overall with HBO Max.
She resides in Los Angeles with her family.
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Terence Patrick Winter is an American writer and producer of television and film. He is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire (2010–14). Before creating Boardwalk Empire, Winter was a writer and executive producer for the HBO television series The Sopranos, from the show's second to sixth and final season (2000–2007).
Matthew Hoffman Weiner is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Mad Men, and as a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos.
Sian Heder is an American television writer, television producer, and filmmaker who is best known for writing and directing the films Tallulah and CODA. CODA earned Heder an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, while the film won for Best Picture. She also won several other awards including A BAFTA Award
Thomas Furneaux Lennon is a documentary filmmaker. He was born in Washington D.C. and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968.
Robert Morgan Carlock is an American screenwriter and producer. He has worked as a writer for several NBC television comedies, and as a showrunner for 30 Rock, which was created by his recurring collaborator, comedian Tina Fey. He co-created Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with Fey. He co-created the television show Mr. Mayor starring Ted Danson, again with Fey.
Lisa Albert is an American television writer and producer. She was born in New York City, and is currently based out of Los Angeles, California. Albert originally began working in publishing until she switched to television writing in 1986. She has worked in both capacities on the AMC drama series Mad Men as a writer and producer and has won a WGA Award for her work on the show.
Kerry Anne Ehrin is an American screenwriter, showrunner, and producer. In 1990, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for her work as a producer on the ABC comedy-drama series The Wonder Years. In 2011, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for her work as a producer on the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights. From 2013 to 2017, she was also showrunner and co-creator of the critically acclaimed A&E drama series Bates Motel. Ehrin then developed and served as showrunner on the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show on the first and second seasons. She is now a consultant on the third season while continuing to develop new series for Apple TV+ under her overall deal.
Kater Gordon is an American television writer and philanthropist. She worked on the AMC drama Mad Men, and won a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award and an Emmy Award.
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David Manson is a Peabody Award-winning American film and television producer, screenwriter and director.
The second season of the American television drama series Mad Men premiered on July 27, 2008 and concluded on October 26, 2008. It consisted of thirteen episodes, each running approximately 48 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the second season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States; it would occupy in this timeslot for the remainder of its run.
Jeff Melvoin is an American television writer, producer, and educator. He has written dozens and produced hundreds of one-hour episodes on over a dozen television series.
Gennifer Hutchison is an American television and film writer. She is best known for her work on the television series Breaking Bad. She won two Writers Guild of America Awards for her work on the series as a part of the writing team in 2012 and 2013. She was also a writer and executive producer on Better Call Saul.
