Rick Cleveland
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Rick Cleveland | |
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| Occupation | The West Wing, Mad Men |
Rick Cleveland is an American television writer, playwright, and monologist, best known for writing on the
Education
Cleveland, a graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa,[2] is also a founding member of Chicago's American Blues Theater.
Career
Film
Cleveland, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Matthew Chapman co-wrote the 2003 film Runaway Jury based on the book by John Grisham. He also wrote a 1998 screenplay for the independent film Jerry and Tom.
Television
In 2000, Cleveland and The West Wing creator
Cleveland worked on the HBO original series Six Feet Under throughout the show's five season run. Cleveland joined the crew as a writer and producer for the show's first season in 2001. He wrote the episode "The Trip". He was promoted to supervising producer for the second season in 2002. He wrote two further episodes – "Driving Mr. Mossback" and "The Liar and the Whore". He remained a supervising producer for the third season in 2003. He scripted two more episodes – "Nobody Sleeps" and "Death Works Overtime". He was promoted to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 2004. He wrote two more episodes – "In Case of Rapture" and "Grinding the Corn". He was promoted again to executive producer for the fifth and final season in 2005 and wrote his last episode, "Eat a Peach". He wrote eight episodes in total for the series.
Cleveland won the Jury Award for Best One Person Show at the 2006 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado for his performance in "My Buddy Bill", about his fictional friendship with President Bill Clinton, a monologue play filmed on June 15, 2007, for a Comedy Central Special and DVD.
He served as writer for the
Cleveland recently served as a consulting producer and writer on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Jerry and Tom | Film, as writer, producer and actor |
| 1999 | The West Wing | TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 21 episodes |
| 2001–2005 | Six Feet Under | TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 36 episodes |
| 2008 | My Buddy Bill | TV film, 50 minute stand-up routine written and performed by Rick Cleveland |
| 2008 | Mad Men | TV series, wrote episode: "The Benefactor", with Matthew Weiner
produced 5 episodes |
| 2009–2010 | Nurse Jackie | TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 19 episodes |
| 2010 | Scoundrels | TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 4 episodes |
| 2013 | Under the Dome | TV series, wrote episode: "The Fire"
produced 4 episodes |
| 2013 | Legit | TV series, wrote all first-season episodes except the pilot, with Jim Jefferies
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| 2013 | House of Cards
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TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 3 episodes |
| 2013 | Archer | TV series, wrote episode: "Sea Tunt: Part II", with Adam Reed |
| 2016 | The Man in the High Castle | TV series, wrote episodes:
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| 2017 | Inhumans | TV series, wrote episodes:
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| 2018 | Claws | TV series, wrote episode: "Russian Navy" |
| 2019 | Insatiable | TV series, wrote episode: "Dead Girl" |
References
- ^ "New Play Initiative".
- ^ "About Us | Theatre Arts | the University of Iowa".
- ^ "Writers Guild Awards Winners". WGA. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved April 15, 2010.
- ^ "2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". WGA. 2008. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
External links
- Rick Cleveland at IMDb
- Blog Entries by Rick Cleveland at The Huffington Post
- Rick Cleveland at Comedy Central
- Cleveland, Rick. "I Was the Dumb Looking Guy with the Wire-Rimmed Glasses". Fresh Yarn. Retrieved January 17, 2007.