Etan Frankel

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Etan Frankel
Education Duke University (BA)
Juilliard School (GrDip)
Notable works Friday Night Lights , Shameless

Etan Frankel is an American playwright and television writer and producer.

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Career

Frankel got his start as a playwright, writing a number of plays including Create Fate, The Fearless, and Truth and Reconciliation, which won the Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2006 Weissberger Playwriting Award. [1] [2]

He began writing for television for the second season of Gossip Girl in 2008. He wrote the episodes "There Might be Blood" and "The Grandfather". He joined the crew of Friday Night Lights as a writer for the series fourth season in 2009. He wrote the episode "A Sort of Homecoming". He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for his work on the fourth season. [3]

In 2011, Frankel joined the first season staff of the Showtime dramedy Shameless , as executive story editor and writer. He served as writer and producer through to 2016. Subsequent projects included episodes of Animal Kingdom , Get Shorty and Sorry for Your Loss .

In June 2021, Frankel wrote and produced the limited series Joe vs. Carole . [4] [5]

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References

  1. "Etan Frankel Wins Williamstown's Weissberger Award". 29 November 2006.
  2. "Frankel Wins Weissberger Playwriting Award". Broadway World.
  3. Gregg Mitchell & Sherry Goldman (2009). "2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  4. Otterson, Joe (June 24, 2021). "'Joe Exotic' Peacock Series Casts Dean Winters as Jeff Lowe". Variety . Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  5. "'Hedwig's' John Cameron Mitchell to Play Joe Exotic in NBCU TV Series". The Hollywood Reporter . 19 April 2021.