Stephen Tolkin

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Stephen Tolkin is an American television writer, director and composer. He worked on a number of American television series including Brothers & Sisters , Perception , Legend of the Seeker and Switched at Birth . [1] He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television) for A Day Late and a Dollar Short. [2]

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Early life and education

Tolkin is the son of Mel Tolkin, the award-winning head writer of Your Show of Shows and Edith Tolkin, who was Paramount Pictures' senior vice president of legal affairs, and brother of Michael Tolkin. [3]

He attended Yale College, where he was awarded the 1975 Peter J. Wallace Prize for Fiction for his short story Notes for a Biography of Lelia Reiszman, and the Yale School of Architecture. [4] [5] [3]

Career

Tolkin has written films and miniseries including Intensity , based on the Dean Koontz novel of the same name (he would also write the two-part miniseries for Koontz's Mr. Murder ), Cleveland Abduction , based on the Ariel Castro kidnappings, and The Craigslist Killer. [6] [7] [8] He wrote and directed New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell, based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, and Daybreak , for HBO. [6] He directed A Day Late and a Dollar Short, for Lifetime, based on the bestselling novel by Terry McMillan, for which he was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television), and What If God Were the Sun?, starring Gena Rowlands, who received Primetime Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for her performance. [9] [10] [2]

He has created and developed multiple TV series, including Kate Brasher , Summerland , Taxi Brooklyn , Somewhere Between and Legend of the Seeker. He has served as writer and producer on series such as Perception and Brothers & Sisters. [1] [3] [11]

He has directed episodes of American Playhouse , Switched at Birth and the miniseries Golden Years . [6]

He wrote music and lyrics for songs performed in Legend of the Seeker, A Day Late and a Dollar Short and Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story, a film he also wrote and directed.

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References

  1. 1 2 "MIPTV: 'Taken 2' Director Olivier Megaton to Helm TV Series 'Taxi Brooklyn South'". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "NAACP Image Awards Winners: 'Selma,' 'How to Get Away With Murder,' 'Black-Ish' Take Top Honors". The Wrap. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "An Inspiring Rabbi". Jewish Journal. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Wallace Fiction Prize: Notes for a Biography of Lelia Reiszman". Yale Daily News. May 1, 1975. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ Mogel, Leonard (2004). This Business of Broadcasting . Billboard Books. p.  114. ISBN   0823077306.
  6. 1 2 3 "'New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell': When Does Lifetime's New Movie Debut?". Heavy. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Dean Koontz's 'Mr. Murder'". Variety. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Starz Preps Dean Koontz Limited Series". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ "59th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  10. ↑ "The 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". SAG AFTRA. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ "ABC Greenlights Murder Mystery 'Somewhere Between' With 10-Episode Order for Summer 2017". Variety. December 17, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
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