Will Scheffer
Will Scheffer | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 21, 1969 |
| Education | State University of New York, Purchase(BFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Producer,Playwright |
| Notable work | Big Love,Getting On |
| Spouse | Mark V. Olsen |
Will Schefferis an Americanplaywright,and was co-creator andexecutive producerof the television seriesBig Loveand the American remake ofGetting Onwith longtimelife partnerMark V. Olsen.He is President andCEOofAnima Sola Productions,which he founded with Olsen in 1992 to create television and film content.
His writing credits includeBig Love: In the Beginning,Ellis Island,[citation needed]Duck Town,Easter,In the Gloaming,The Pact,Citizen Baines,andGetting On.[1]
Life
[edit]Family
[edit]Scheffer's father, Ben, was aHolocaust survivor,[2]whoemigratedfromthe NetherlandsthroughEllis Islandin 1941. His mother, Sandra, was the daughter ofJews who fled Russiain 1916.[3]
Education
[edit]Scheffer attendedState University of New York at Purchasewhere he earned aBachelor of Fine Artswith HonorsinTheater.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]In 1997, Scheffer received theVarietymagazine "One of the Rising Writers to Watch" award. He has also taught and lectured atBernard M. Baruch College,Lewis and Clark CollegeandSchool of Visual Arts,Manhattan,New York City.
Personal life
[edit]Scheffer isopenlygay;he and Olsen have been married to each other since the early 1990s.[4][5]About their collaborative process, Scheffer said: "Mark and I talk everything through but don't actually write together. We take turns on drafts, passing them back and forth for multiple revisions. Sometimes I'll write the first draft and he'll revise and sometimes he'll write the first draft. On set it's looser and we'll have to revise together but we prefer to actually write in our own space. The 'fantasy' image of having desks facing each other and tossing lines back and forth doesn't work for us."[6]
Works
[edit]- Scheffer, Will (1999).Falling Man, and Other Monologues.New York: Dramatists Play Service.ISBN082221668X.Retrieved2 January2018.
- Scheffer, Will (1999).Easter.New York, NY:Dramatists Play Service.ISBN0822216671.Retrieved2 January2018.
References
[edit]- ^Will SchefferatIMDb
- ^Bellafante, Ginia (13 August 2011)."A Word With: Will Scheffer; Returning to Theater To Explore the Past".The New York Times.Retrieved2 January2018.
- ^Scheffer, Will (12 November 2017)."Ben came thru" Ellis Island "in 1941".Twitter.Retrieved2 January2018.
- ^Gross, Terry(1 August 2007),"Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer, Feeling theBig Love",Fresh Air,retrieved2 January2014
- ^Lattin, Don (10 June 2007),"Gay monogamous couple are brains behind polygamy show",San Francisco Chronicle,retrieved2 January2014
- ^Kouguell, Susan(2 January 2014)."Interview with Will Scheffer: HBO'sGetting OnCo-Creator, Co-Executive, Producer and Writer ".IndieWire.Retrieved2 January2018.
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- Living people
- American people of Dutch-Jewish descent
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American dramatists and playwrights
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- American male screenwriters
- Jewish American dramatists and playwrights
- American male television writers
- American television writers
- American soap opera writers
- Television producers from New York (state)
- American showrunners
- LGBT television producers
- American gay writers
- State University of New York at Purchase alumni
- Baruch College faculty
- Lewis & Clark College faculty
- School of Visual Arts faculty
- Writers Guild of America Award winners
- 1969 births
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Screenwriters from Oregon
- 21st-century American Jews