Bridget Carpenter (born in
New York City
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) is a
television writer
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
.
Biography
She received an M.F.A. from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1995.
[Rodriguez, Bill]
"Bridget Carpenter swings into Trinity"
providencephoenix.com, May 11–18, 2000 Her plays have been produced at venues including Arena Stage
Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D.C. Established in 1950, it was the first racially integrated theater in Washington, D.C. and its founders helped start the U.S. regional theater movement. It is ...
, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and La Mama ETC, New York.[
She lives in Los Angeles.
She has written the book for a musical version of the book (and films) '']Freaky Friday
''Freaky Friday'' is a comedic children's novel written by Mary Rodgers, first published by Harper & Row in 1972. It has been adapted for several films, including versions in 1976, 1995, 2003, and 2018, and was reinterpreted as a horror film f ...
''. The musical premiered in October 2016 at the Signature Theatre, followed by a run from January to March 2017 at the La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
History
La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. In 1983, it was revived under ...
under the direction of Christopher Ashley
Christopher Ashley (born July 6, 1964) is an American stage director. Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse.
Career
Ashley graduated from Yale University in 1986, with a Bachelor of Art in Theatre. .
Awards
She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.
Eligibility
Th ...
for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony, for her work on the first season of ''Friday Night Lights''. She was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series the following year at the February 2008 ceremony, for her work on the second season of ''Friday Night Lights''.Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women+ writing for English-speaking theatre. Named for Susan Smith Blackburn (1935–1977), alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer.
W ...
for ''Fall'',[ was awarded a 2002 ]Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, and was awarded the 2003 Kesselring Prize for ''The Faculty Room''.[ In 1997, she received a Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and the Princess Grace Statue Award in 2017.
]
Work
Producer:
*" 11.22.63" (2016) TV mini-series (executive producer) (8 episodes, 2015-2016)
*"The Red Road" (2014) TV series (executive producer) (6 episodes, 2014)
*"Parenthood" (2010) TV series (co-executive producer) (7 episodes, 2011-2012)
*"Friday Night Lights" (2006) TV series (producer) (21 episodes, 2006-2007) (co-executive producer) (19 episodes, 2009-2011) (supervising producer) (1 episode, 2008) ...AKA "F.N.L." - USA (promotional abbreviation)
*"Dead Like Me" (2003) TV series (co-producer) (15 episodes, 2004)
Writer:
"11.22.63" (2016) TV mini-series (8 episodes, 2016)
"The Red Road" (2014) TV series (1 episode, 2014)
"Parenthood" (2010) TV series (9 episodes, 2010-2013)
"Friday Night Lights" (2006) TV series (10 episodes, 2006-2011) ... aka "F.N.L." - USA (promotional abbreviation)
"Bionic Woman" (2007) TV series (1 episode, 2007) ... aka "The Bionic Woman" - USA (complete title)
"Head Cases" (2005) TV series (unknown episodes)
Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005) (TV)
"Dead Like Me" (2003) TV series (5 episodes, 2003-2004)
Plays
*''Euxious'' (2003)
*''Hurry!'' (2003)
*''Up (The Man in the Flying Chair)'', (2002).[Keeker, Korry]
"Runaway dreams and flying lawn chairs"
''Juneau Empire'', May 9, 2003
*''The Faculty Room '', (2002)[Jones, Kenneth]
"Bridget Carpenter Revises Her Humana Play, 'Faculty Room', for Woolly Mammoth in D.C. June 5"
Playbill, June 5, 2006
*''Fall '', (2000)
*''The Death of the Father of Psychpanalysis (and Anna)'', (1997)
*''Mr. Xmas'', (1997)
*''Tiny'', (1997)
*''West'', (1997)
*''The Ugly Duckling'', (1996)
*''OED'', (1995)
*''Variations on a Sex Change '', (1994)
*''Roman Fever '', (1996)
*''The Ride '', (1994)
Teleplays
She has worked on the NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an Television in the United States, American English-language Commercial broadcasting, commercial television network, broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Enterta ...
drama series '' Friday Night Lights'' and '' Parenthood''. She wrote for the Sundance Channel series The Red Road
The red road is a modern English-language concept of the right path of life, as inspired by some of the beliefs found in a variety of Native American spiritual teachings. The term is used primarily in the Pan-Indian and New Age communities,McGaa ...
and the Television mini-series
A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format h ...
11.22.63, which stars James Franco
James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in '' 127 Hours'' (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in films, such as Sam Raimi's ''Spider-Ma ...
.James Franco to Star in Hulu’s 11/22/63 Adaptation
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References
External links
* ttp://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/carpenter-bridget.html ''Bridget Carpenter'', doollee
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women screenwriters
Brown University alumni
American television writers
American women television writers
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American screenwriters