Mark V. Olsen (born 1962) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He was the co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series ''

Big Love ''Big Love'' is an American drama television series that aired on HBO from March 12, 2006 to March 20, 2011. It stars Bill Paxton as the patriarch of a fundamentalist Mormon family in contemporary Utah that practices polygamy, with Jeanne Tri ...

'' and Getting On along with his writing partner and husband

Will Scheffer Will Scheffer is an American playwright, and was co-creator and executive producer of the television series ''Big Love'' and the American remake of Getting On with longtime life partner Mark V. Olsen. He is President and CEO of Anima Sola ...

. In 2007, Olsen and Scheffer won a TV Writers Guild of America Award for the pilot episode of ''

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Overview

Olsen grew up in

Hastings, Nebraska Hastings is a city and the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 25,152 at the 2020 census. It is known as the town where Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927, and celebrates that event with the Ko ...

. He is also an attorney, and a member of the New York bar. Olsen is openly

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; since the early 1990s, he and professional partner

have also been married to each other. Prior to the television show ''Big Love'', Olsen co-produced the independent feature-length movie ''

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'' (2002), which was originally written as a play by Scheffer. Olsen also wrote a six-part miniseries for HBO known as ''Mary Chestnut's Civil War''.

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