Stephen Tolkin

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]

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.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "MIPTV: 'Taken 2' Director Olivier Megaton to Helm TV Series 'Taxi Brooklyn South'". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "NAACP Image Awards Winners: 'Selma,' 'How to Get Away With Murder,' 'Black-Ish' Take Top Honors". The Wrap. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b c "'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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