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Bonnie Mark is an American
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and producer. She has worked on the
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crime drama '' NYPD Blue'' and the NBC crime dramas ''
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'' and '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on ''Homicide''.


Biography


1990s

Mark began working in television as a script co-ordinator for the first season of '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' in 1993. The series was executive produced by
Tom Fontana Tom Fontana (born September 12, 1951) is an American screenwriter, writer, and television producer. Fontana worked on NBC's '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' and created HBO's ''Oz.'' Early life and education Fontana was born on the west si ...
and focused on a single squad of homicide detectives in the Baltimore police department. She was promoted to staff writer for the second season in Spring 1994. She remained a staff writer for the third season in Fall 1994. She contributed to four third-season episodes as a writer. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Fits Like a Glove" from a story by Fontana and story editor Julie Martin. Mark, Fontana and Martin were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for episodic drama at the February 1996 ceremony for writing "Fits Like a Glove". She co-wrote the story for the episode "The City That Bleeds" with executive story editor James Yoshimura, Martin and story editor Jorge Zamacona wrote the teleplay. She co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Law and Disorder" with Martin from a story by Yoshimura and co-executive producer
Henry Bromell Alfred Henry Bromell (September 19, 1947 – March 18, 2013) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director. Career Bromell joined the crew of NBC police drama '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' in 1994. He served as a writer and co-execu ...
. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Nothing Personal" from a story by Yoshimura and Fontana. She was promoted to story editor for the fourth season in 1995. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Autofocus" from a story by Fontana and Bromell. She left the series at the end of the fourth season. She contributed to five episodes in total as a writer. She served as an executive story editor for the police drama ''
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'' in 1996. The show featured eight suburban police officers at work performing street law enforcement and in their home lives. The show was created by Steven Spielberg,
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,
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and Dave Alan Johnson. In 1997 she worked as a writer for the HBO drama ''
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''. The series was created and executive produced by
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. She wrote the episode "Smoking Gun". The show was canceled after one season. Also in 1997 she served as a co-producer for the short-lived crime drama '' C-16: FBI''. In 1998 she worked as a co-producer for the new legal drama series '' Michael Hayes''. The series was created by
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and
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. It focused on a new deputy prosecutor in New York. It was canceled while airing its first season.


2000s

In 2000 she served as a producer for the pilot of psychiatric drama '' Wonderland''. The show was created by
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and focused on doctors at a psychiatric inpatient facility. Mark did not return when the series was picked up. The show was canceled after eight episodes. In 2001 she became a supervising producer and writer for the
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emergency services drama ''
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''. The show was created by retired police officer
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and television producer John Wells. She wrote four second-season episodes; "The Tys That Bind", "Run of the Mill", "A Rock and a Hard Place" and "Walking Wounded". She left the crew after the second season ended. In 2002 she served as a supervising producer for the short-lived drama series '' The Court''. Also in 2002 she served as a consulting producer and writer for the police drama ''
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''. The series was created by Barry Schindel and executive produced by
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and focused on a Los Angeles homicide unit. She wrote the story for the episode "In/Famous",
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wrote the teleplay. She was hired as a co-executive producer for the eleventh season of
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police drama '' NYPD Blue'' in 2003. The series was created by
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and Steven Bochco and followed a New York homicide unit. She co-wrote the story (with retired police officer and executive producer Bill Clark) and wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Shear Stupidity" and "Passing the Stone". In 2005 she served as a co-executive producer for new ABC drama ''
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''. The show follows a firm of fringe private investigators. The series aired as a mid-season replacement and was canceled after six episodes. ''Eyes'' was Mark's last television work. In 2011 Mark wrote three episodes for Star Wars: The Clone Wars.


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