Joshua Brand
Joshua Brand | |
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Born | New York City | November 29, 1950
Alma mater | City College of New York Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Writer, producer, director |
Joshua Brand is an American television writer, director, and producer who created St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure with his writing-and-producing partner John Falsey, with whom he worked through 1994.[1] He was also a writer and consulting producer of FX's 2013–18 series The Americans.
Early life
Joshua Brand was born to a
Career
His play Babyface was produced in Los Angeles in 1978 and was selected as a semi-finalist in the Great American Play Contest sponsored by the Louisville Actors Theater. Another play, Grunts, was produced Off-Broadway at the Wonderhouse Theatre in New York City. In 2012, his full-length play The Real Me was a finalist at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.[3]
Brand's early television career was spent writing scripts for
Brand and John Falsey created the short-lived series Going to Extremes, which was filmed entirely on the island of Jamaica. He has been nominated for eleven Emmy Awards (winning three, as noted above), as well as winning two Peabody Awards (Northern Exposure, I'll Fly Away), two Golden Globe Awards (Northern Exposure), along with the Humanitas Prize, the Producers Guild of America Award, and the Environmental Media Award for Ongoing Commitment. Falsey and Brand split as a team in 1994, with Falsey essentially leaving the industry, but in 2013, Brand and Falsey jointly received the Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement from the Writers Guild of America.
Since 2013, Brand has been a writer and consulting producer of the acclaimed
His directing credits include the feature film
References
- ^ "Joshua Brand". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ New York Times: "Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Kew Gardens" By Sewell Chan April 22, 2009
- ^ a b "JOSHUA BRAND & JOHN FALSEY – Creators". Northern Exposure: Creators & Producers Biographies. Comcast. September 10, 2005.
- ^ Brand's Emmy history as of 10 March 2014 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Emily VanDerWerff (May 8, 2013). "The Americans' producers walk us through their first-season storylines". A.V. Club. Retrieved March 10, 2014.