Steve Yockey is an American
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 ...
,
producer
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Occupations
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*A stakeholder of economic production
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and
screenwriter
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.
...
. He is known as the developer of the
HBO Max comedy-drama television series ''
The Flight Attendant'', which was an adaptation of the 2018
novel of the same name.
Yockey began his career in 2014, when he wrote an episode for the television series ''
Awkward''. He later produced and wrote for ''
Supernatural
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''. He left the series in 2019 to work on his own television series ''The Flight Attendant''. In 2021, Yockey was nominated for two
Primetime Emmy Awards
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in the categories
Outstanding Comedy Series and
Outstanding Writing for the episode "In Case of Emergency" at the
73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. More recently, Yockey signed a multi-year overall deal with
Warner Bros. Television.
Filmography
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American dramatists and playwrights
American male screenwriters
American television writers
American male television writers
American television producers
21st-century American screenwriters
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