Tom Kapinos is an American television writer and screenwriter best known for his creation of the Showtime series ''

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'' and the

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series ''

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''.

Early life

Kapinos attended Island Trees School District on

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, New York.

Career

Kapinos moved from New York to California in the mid-1990s, working in Los Angeles for

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as a staff story analyst. In 1999, Fox 2000 purchased his first sold screenplay, ''The Virgin Mary'', with actress

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attached to play the title role. The film was never made, but after reading ''The Virgin Mary'' the producers of ''

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'' offered Kapinos a job. After beginning his career in television in 1999 as a writer and eventually executive producer on ''Dawson's Creek'', Kapinos moved on to his own series, ''

'', a

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on which he was executive producer and chief writer.

Filmography

Television

The numbers in writing credits refer to the number of episodes.

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