Jeff Melvoin is an American television writer, producer, and educator. He has written dozens and produced hundreds of one-hour episodes on over a dozen television series.
[“TV Writer-Producer Jeff Melvoin to Receive WGAW's Morgan Cox Award for Guild Service"]
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Melvoin is founder and chair of the Writers Guild of America's Showrunner Training Program and the Writers Education Committee. He is a past board member of the Mystery Writers of America (Southern California Chapter) and the Writers Guild of America, West.
Early life and education
Melvoin was born in Boston, MA
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and grew up in Highland Park, IL
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. He attended Highland Park High School, and has attributed the birth of his creative career to his drama teacher Barbara Paterson. In high school, his fellow actors included Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise
Gary Alan Sinise (; born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, humanitarian, and musician. Among other awards, he has won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also received a st ...
, two of the founding members of the Steppenwolf Theater Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on ...
.
Melvoin attended Harvard University
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, graduating magna cum laude in 1975 with a degree in American history and literature. He wrote his senior thesis on the development of the American detective in fiction. While in college, he also directed six theatrical productions, including two on the mainstage of Harvard’s Loeb Theater.
Career
Journalism
After college, Melvoin took a mini-MBA program at Keller Graduate School of Business Management in Chicago
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and was subsequently hired by Fairchild Publications
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(Women's Wear Daily, W) as a reporter for Fairchild News Service (FNS) in Washington, D.C. Shortly after, he was made FNS bureau chief in Miami.
In 1978, he was hired as a correspondent for TIME magazine
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. He worked in their New York, Boston and Los Angeles bureaus before leaving the magazine in late 1982.["LIKE IT OR NOT, NEW CHIEF REALLY SHOOK THINGS UP"]
''Deadline'', By Scott D. Pierce, Feb. 16 1996
Television
Melvoin began his television career in 1983 as a staff writer for the lighthearted MTM detective show ''Remington Steele
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'', joining the NBC
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series in its second season. He worked his way up to supervising producer by the end of the show’s fourth season.["Writers Guild Honors ‘Army Wives’ Exec Producer Jeff Melvoin"]
"Variety", December 10, 2014 by Dave McNary In 1986, Melvoin became co-executive producer on the final season of the NBC
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police drama, ''Hill Street Blues
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'', also produced by MTM.
Melvoin then began a four-year association with Columbia TriStar Television
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, developing original pilots. Three of his pilots were produced, but none were picked up to series.[“An Interview with Jeff Melvoin, Executive Producer on ARMY WIVES"]
/ref> In 1991, Melvoin was hired as a writer-producer on the CBS
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comedy-drama ''Northern Exposure
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'', produced by Universal Television
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. He worked on the series from episode 17 until the end four years later writing 18 episodes and rewriting a half-dozen others. During his time on the show, Melvoin received numerous awards and nominations, including an Emmy
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award for best dramatic series, two Emmy
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nominations for best writing in a dramatic series, two Golden Globe awards and a Television Critics Association
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award for best dramatic series.
In 1995, Melvoin became Executive Producer on the fourth season of the David E. Kelley
David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney, known as the creator of '' Doogie Howser, M.D.'', '' Picket Fences'', ''Chicago Hope'', ''The Practice'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''Boston Publi ...
drama series, ''Picket Fences
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'', produced by 20th Century Fox Television
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for CBS
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. It marked Melvoin’s first showrunner
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position. Following ''Picket Fences
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'', Melvoin signed an overall deal with Tristar Television and became a consultant on the light science fiction drama, ''Early Edition
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'', for CBS
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. He took over the series as showrunner
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for seasons two through four, from 1997-2000.
In 2001, he was executive producer on the Showtime
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drama, ''Going to California
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'', produced by Columbia TriStar Television
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, which lasted one season.
In 2003, he was executive producer on the ABC
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drama ''Line of Fire
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'', produced by Touchstone Television
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. The FBI
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drama ran for 13 episodes. In 2004, Melvoin signed an overall deal with ABC Studios
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and became executive producer on season four of ''Alias
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'', the J. J. Abrams
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spy drama produced by Touchstone Television
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for ABC
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.
Following that, Melvoin became executive producer on ''In Justice
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'', a short-lived ABC series from ''The Good Wife
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'' creators Robert
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and Michelle King
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.
In 2007, Melvoin was hired as executive producer on ''Army Wives
''Army Wives'' is an American drama television series that followed the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families. The series premiered on Lifetime on June 3, 2007, and ran for seven seasons, ending on June 9, 2013. The sh ...
'', produced by ABC Studios
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for the Lifetime Network
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. He ran the show in its first season, then left for other opportunities, returning to run the show for season’s three through seven, ending its run in 2013. In its day, Army Wives was the most successful one-hour drama in the history of the Lifetime network. After ''Army Wives
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'', Melvoin has worked on his own development and a variety of other projects, including the Shane Black
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and Fred Dekker
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spaghetti western series, EDGE, developed for Amazon Studios
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in 2015-2016, but eventually shelved.
In December 2016, Melvoin was hired as the showrunner for ABC's ''Designated Survivor
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''. He handled the second half of season 1 and stayed on as an executive producer for season 2. In 2019, Melvoin was hired as an executive producer for season three of BBC America's ''Killing Eve
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''.
Showrunner Training Program
In 2005, Melvoin approached Writers Guild of America West
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President John Wells to create a WGA Showrunner Training Program. In the face of a rapidly changing industry, Melvoin saw a need to compensate for the disappearance of the old, informal apprenticeship system in television writing-producing with an intense, master class program for selected candidates. Together, Melvoin and Wells successfully lobbied the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers
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to fund the WGA’s Showrunner Training Program.["Secrets Of TV Showrunners Boot Camp"]
"Deadline", August 27, 2010 by The Deadline Team
Melvoin continues to chair the program, whose alumni include Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe (born May 17, 1984) is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series ''The Chi'' (2018–present) and the BET comedy series ''Boomerang'' (2019–20) and '' Twenties'' (2020–prese ...
, Tanya Saracho
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, Kenya Barris
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Early life
Barris was born in Inglewood, California, th ...
, Courtney Kemp Agboh, Matt Nix
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, Veena Sud
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, Gloria Calderon Kellett
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, and Aaron Korsh
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, among many others, who in the program’s first seventeen years have gone on to create, co-create or executive-produce over 150 series."Next Stop: Running the Show"
"Emmy Magazine", October 15, 2015 by Libby Slate
In 2015, Melvoin was given the Morgan Cox Award, the WGA’s highest recognition "to that member whose vital ideas, continuing efforts, and personal sacrifice best exemplify the ideal of service to the Guild." In announcing the award, WGA President Christopher Keyser
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said, "If this is a Golden Age of television, the program Jeff so lovingly shepherds deserves its fair share of credit. Thanks to him, as an art form and as a business, we are better at what we do."
Melvoin has taught at Harvard
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, USC School of Cinematic Arts
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, UCLA
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, and the Sundance Institute
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. Additionally, in 2004, Melvoin co-authored a WGA booklet, ''Writing for Episodic TV'', which is still in print.
Filmography
Awards
Writers Guild of America
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* Morgan Cox Award; "to that member whose vital ideas, continuing efforts, and personal sacrifice best exemplify the ideal of service to the Guild." 2015
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Army Wives
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''
*Inspire Award; Donate Life Hollywood; for stories that "entertain, enlighten, and inspire about organ and tissue donation." 2010
*Sentinel for Health Award for Daytime Drama; University of Southern California & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; "for exemplary achievements of television storylines that inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives." 2010
*Voice Award, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services); "to increase public understanding and acceptance of people in recovery from mental health and substance abuse problems." 2010
''
Northern Exposure
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''
*Jewish Televimage Award, Best Episode - Drama, Shofar So Good, 1995
*Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Drama Series, 1994
*Environmental Media Award
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, 1993
*Emmy Nomination
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, Outstanding Drama Series, 1993
*Emmy Nomination
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Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series, Kaddish for Uncle Manny], 1993
* Television Critics Association, Television Critics Association Award, Program of the Year, 1992
*Golden Globe Award
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, Best Television Series - Drama, 1992
*Emmy Nomination
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, Outstanding Drama Series, 1992
*Emmy Nomination
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Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series, Democracy in America, 1992
*Golden Globe Award
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, Best Television Series - Drama, 1991
''
Hill Street Blues
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''
* People’s Choice Award, Favorite TV Dramatic Program, 1987
''
Remington Steele
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''
* Edgar Allan Poe Special Award, Mystery Writers of America
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, Altered Steele, 1984
Personal life
Melvoin and his wife, Martha Hartnett Melvoin, a former photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times
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, were married in 1984. The couple lives in Los Angeles
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, and have two sons, Nick
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and Charlie.
References
External links
*http://www.showbizzle.com/inside-the-bizzle/profiles/jeff-melvoin
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcKZ9zIPyw
*
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