Tom Fontana
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Tom Fontana

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Tom Fontana has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as ST. ELSEWHERE, HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET, OZ, and Netflix's BORGIA. Fontana wrote the HBO film STRIP SEARCH, directed by Sidney Lumet, as well as contributed two pieces to the September 11th special AMERICA: A TRIBUTE TO HEROES. He was an executive producer and co-creator of the AMC/Canal+ series MONSIEUR SPADE. He has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers’ Guild Awards, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Special Edgar and the first prize at Geneva’s Cinema Tout Ecran Festival.

He was executive producer of AMERICAN TRAGEDY for CBS, THE KILLING FIELDS for Discovery, SHOT IN THE HEART, PATERNO, YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, and WIZARD OF LIES for HBO. He also produced the documentary THE PRESS SECRETARY for PBS and the independent films, JEAN, IN GOOD CONSCIENCE and ANYTOWN USA.

Fontana has had numerous plays produced in New York, where he lives, as well as at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the McCarter Theatre Company and the Berkshire Playwrights Lab.

Fontana has written articles for such periodicals as The New York Times, and Esquire and has taught at Columbia, Syracuse, Rutgers and the State University College at Buffalo, his alma mater, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.

He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Producers Guild of America, the Players Club, the Writers Guild of America, East, from which he received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award, the Richard B. Jablow Award and the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Fontana co-founded the charitable organization Projects with Care and serves on the boards of the Paley Center for Media’s International Council, The Writers Guild Initiative, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and was formerly the president of Humanitas.
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