Rick Cleveland

Rick Cleveland
Born	United States
Occupation	Television writer, consulting producer, screenwriter, playwright, monologist
Nationality	American
Notable works	Six Feet Under, The West Wing, Mad Men

Rick Cleveland is an American television writer, playwright, and monologist, best known for writing on the HBO original series, Six Feet Under and NBC's The West Wing.

Cleveland, a graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, is also a founding member of Chicago's American Blues Theater.

In 2000, Cleveland and The West Wing creator, Aaron Sorkin won the Emmy Award for Best Writing for a Drama Series their episode "In Excelsis Deo". The episode which originally aired during the 1999–2000 season. Cleveland and Sorkin also won the Writers Guild of America Award for best episodic drama at the February 2001 ceremony for "In Excelsis Deo".^[1]

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.

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.

He served as writer for the AMC television drama Mad Men for the show's second season in 2008. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the second season.^[2]

His 2011 play The Rail Splitter premiered at Carthage College and traveled to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region 3) in 2012.

Cleveland currently serves 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: "In Excelsis Deo", with Aaron Sorkin "Enemies" (story) with Patrick Caddell and Lawrence O'Donnell produced 21 episodes
2001-2005	Six Feet Under	TV series, wrote episodes: "The Trip" "Driving Mr. Mossback" "The Liar and the Whore" "Nobody Sleeps", with Alan Ball "Death Works Overtime" "In Case of Rapture" "Grinding The Corn" "Eat a Peach" 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: "Tiny Bubbles" "Pill-O-Mattix" "Candyland" "What the Day Brings" produced 19 episodes
2010	Scoundrels	TV series, wrote episodes: "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire" "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" 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 Peter O'Fallon and Jim Jefferies
2013	House of Cards	TV series, wrote episodes: "Chapter 4" "Chapter 9" produced 3 episodes

References

↑ "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. Retrieved December 12, 2008.

External links

Rick Cleveland at the Internet Movie Database
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.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

1955–1975	Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955) Rod Serling (1960) Rod Serling (1961) Reginald Rose (1962) Robert Thom / Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963) Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" and Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work"(1964) David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966) Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967) Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968) JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969) Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971) Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972) John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973) Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974) Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975)

1976–2000	Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976) William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977) Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978) Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979) Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll, Jeff Lewis, Michael I. Wagner, Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982) David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983) Tom Fontana, John Masius, John Ford Noonan for "The Women" (1984) Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985) Tom Fontana, John Masius, Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986) Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987) Paul Haggis, Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988) Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989) David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990) David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991) Diane Frolov / Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992) Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993) Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994) Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996) Stephen Gaghan / David Milch / Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997) Bill Clark / Nicholas Wootton / David Milch for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998) David Chase / James Manos, Jr. for "College" (1999) Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000)

2000–present	Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green for "Employee of the Month" (2001) Robert Cochran / Joel Surnow for "12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m." (2002) Mitchell Burgess & David Chase & Robin Green for "Whitecaps" (2003) Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking" (2004) David Shore for "Three Stories" (2005) Terence Winter for "Members Only" (2006) David Chase for "Made in America" (2007) Matthew Weiner for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2008) Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner for "Meditations in an Emergency" (2009) Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner for "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." (2010) Jason Katims for "Always" (2011) Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff for "Pilot (Homeland)" (2012) Henry Bromell for "Q&A" (2013) Moira Walley-Beckett for "Ozymandias" (2014) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama (2000–2009)

Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000) Tim Van Patten & Terence Winter for "Pine Barrens" (2001) Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin for "Pilot" (The Education of Max Bickford) (2002) Evan Katz for "Day 2: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m." (2003) Debora Cahn for "The Supremes" (2004) Lawrence Kaplow for "Autopsy" (2005) Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer for "Pilot" (Big Love) (2006) Terence Winter for "The Second Coming" (2007) Vince Gilligan for "Pilot" (Breaking Bad) (2008) David Foster & Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Shore for "Broken" (2009)

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