Lawrence Trilling

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Lawrence Trilling
Born (1966-06-29) June 29, 1966 (age 58)
Wayne, New Jersey, US
Education Columbia University
Occupation(s)Television director and Producer
Known forShowrunner of Goliath

Lawrence Trilling (born June 29, 1966) is an American television director, producer, showrunner, and writer. He has directed nearly 150 hours of television to date, and served as Producer/Executive Producer on such series as Felicity, Alias, Parenthood, Pushing Daisies, Goliath, and Outer Range . He has directed episodes of many popular series, including Scrubs, Monk, Masters of Sex, Damages, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Snowfall . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Early life and education

Trilling was born in Wayne, New Jersey, and moved to Santa Monica, California, when he was three. At Lincoln Jr. High, Trilling met fellow future director Matt Reeves, who inspired Trilling with his Super 8 film camera and editing system. [6]   Together, they co-wrote several films, which Reeves directed and Trilling starred in. One of those films, The Loser, was screened at a student film festival at the Nuart Theater in West Los Angeles, where they befriended fellow filmmaker, J.J. Abrams. [7]

Trilling graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1984.  He attended Columbia University and graduated with a B.A. in English Literature in 1988, and received an MFA in Film and Television Production from UCLA in 1992. [8]

Film and television career

1990s

Trilling's first break was selling the screenplay Delivered ,  a black comedy he co-wrote with his childhood friend and fellow pizza delivery driver, Andrew Liotta.  The script, about an angry, overeducated pizza man who is mistaken for a local serial killer, was produced by Banner Entertainment and premiered at the Seattle Film Festival in 1998. The same year, he directed the film Dinner and Driving, a romantic comedy about the anxiety of commitment, which he co-wrote with his cousin, Steven Wolfson. The film played multiple festivals and aired on HBO and Lifetime, and later streamed on Netflix. [9]

Trilling made his television directorial debut in Season One of Felicity, when he directed the acclaimed episode "The Fugue." He became a Producer/Director for season two and directed 14 episodes over the show's four seasons. On the strength of his work on Felicity, he was hired to direct two other dramas for the WB Network; Roswell for Jason Katims and Popular , Ryan Murphy's debut series. [10]

2000s

After their collaboration on Felicity, Trilling followed J. J. Abrams to Alias , where he directed episodes throughout season two and became a Producer/Director for seasons three and four. He also wrote and directed the film Porn n' Chicken , which was Comedy Central's first original movie. [11] After this, Trilling became a frequent director on the hit NBC comedy series, Scrubs , helming six episodes in the first two seasons.

Trilling then worked for Warner Bros. and ABC  as Producer/Director on Invasion and Pushing Daisies . During this period, he also directed episodes of Damages, Monk, Brothers & Sisters , Life , and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, among others.

In 2010, he directed the feature film comedy, Group Sex , which he co-wrote with Greg Grunberg, starring Henry Winkler.

2010–present

In 2010, Trilling joined Jason Katims to become an Executive Producer/Director for the acclaimed NBC drama Parenthood. Praised for its honest, funny and emotional examination of family life, it was one of the first television shows to raise awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The show ran for six seasons and Trilling directed 38 episodes. While working on the show for Universal, he also sold two pilots as a writer. [12]

Between 2013 and 2017, Trilling directed episodes of the popular shows Masters of Sex , Rectify , Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Agent Carter , and Snowfall, among others.

In 2016, Trilling teamed up with David E. Kelly to direct the pilot of Goliath for Amazon Prime Video, for which Billy Bob Thornton won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2017. He took over as Showrunner in season two and ran the show for its next two seasons until it concluded in 2021. [13] He also directed the Pilot and first three episodes of Condor, a re-imagining of the movie from 1975.

From 2019 to 2023, Trilling was under an overall deal at Amazon Studios. In addition to show running Goliath, he sold multiple projects into development and came aboard to direct and Executive Produce Outer Range , starring Josh Brolin. [14]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleNotes
1999–2002 Felicity Directed 14 episodes; wrote Episode: "True Colors;" also Producer
2000 Ed Directed Episode: "Something Old, Something New"
2001 Popular Directed 2 Episodes
2001-2002 Scrubs Directed 6 Episodes
Roswell Directed 2 Episodes
2003 Monk Directed Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man"
Nip/Tuck Directed Episode: "Nanette Babcock"
Miracles Directed Episode: "Saint Debbie
2003-2005 Alias Directed 15 Episodes; also Supervising Producer
2005-2006 Invasion Directed 6 Episodes; also Co-Executive Producer
2006 Brothers & Sisters Directed Episode: "Northern Exposure"
2007 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Directed Episode: "Monday"
Damages Directed Episode: "Tastes Like a Ho-Ho"
Life Directed Episode: "Let Her Go"
Re-Inventing the WheelersDirected Unaired TV Pilot
2007-2009 Pushing Daisies Directed 5 Episodes; also Co-Executive producer
2009 Drop Dead Diva Directed Episode: "The Chinese Wall"
Mercy Directed 2 Episodes
2010-2015 Parenthood Directed 38 Episodes; also Executive Producer
2013 Masters of Sex Directed Episode: "Standard Deviation"
2014 Killer Women Directed Pilot Episode: "La Sicaria"
About a Boy Directed Episode: "About a Rib Chute"
2015 Rectify Directed Episode: "Thrill Ride"
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Directed Episode: "I'm So Happy That Josh Is So Happy!"
2016 Agent Carter Directed 2 Episodes
Recovery Road Directed 2 Episodes (including Pilot)
2016-2021 Goliath Directed 22 Episodes (including Pilot); also Showrunner
2017 The Get Down Directed Episode: "Unfold Your Own Myth"
Underground Directed Episode: "Citizen"
Snowfall Directed Episode: "Seven-Four"
2018 Condor Directed 3 Episodes (including Pilot); also Executive Producer
2022 Outer Range Directed 2 Episodes; also Executive Producer

Film

YearTitleNotes
1997Dinner and DrivingAlso Writer
1998 Delivered Writer Only
2002 Porn n' Chicken Also Writer
2010 Group Sex Also Writer

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