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Bridget Carpenter

b. 1975

American screenwriter

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Born 1975. Bridget Carpenter is an American screenwriter.

Bridget Carpenter (born in New York City) is a television writer and playwright.

Biography She received an M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995. Her plays have been produced at venues including Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and La Mama ETC, New York. followed by a run from January to March 2017 at the La Jolla Playhouse under the direction of Christopher Ashley.

Awards She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony, for her work on the first season of Friday Night Lights. She was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series the following year at the February 2008 ceremony, for her work on the second season of Friday Night Lights. Carpenter was nominated for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for her work on the third season of Friday Night Lights. She was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Drama Series for the third consecutive year at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the fourth season.

She won the 2000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Fall, and was awarded the 2003 Kesselring Prize for The Faculty Room.

Work Producer:

"11.22.63" (2016) TV mini-series (executive producer) (8 episodes, 2015-2016) "The Red Road" (2014) TV series (executive producer) (6 episodes, 2014) "Parenthood" (2010) TV series (co-executive producer) (7 episodes, 2011-2012) "Friday Night Lights" (2006) TV series (producer) (21 episodes, 2006-2007) (co-executive producer) (19 episodes, 2009-2011) (supervising producer) (1 episode, 2008) ...AKA "F.N.L." - USA (promotional abbreviation) "Dead Like Me" (2003) TV series (co-producer) (15 episodes, 2004)

Writer:

"11.22.63" (2016) TV mini-series (8 episodes, 2016) "The Red Road" (2014) TV series (1 episode, 2014) "Parenthood" (2010) TV series (9 episodes, 2010-2013) "Friday Night Lights" (2006) TV series (10 episodes, 2006-2011) ... aka "F.N.L." - USA (promotional abbreviation)

"Bionic Woman" (2007) TV series (1 episode, 2007) ... aka "The Bionic Woman" - USA (complete title)

"Head Cases" (2005) TV series (unknown episodes)

Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005) (TV)

"Dead Like Me" (2003) TV series (5 episodes, 2003-2004)

Plays Euxious (2003) Hurry! (2003) Up (The Man in the Flying Chair), (2002). The Faculty Room , (2002) Fall , (2000) The Death of the Father of Psychpanalysis (and Anna), (1997) Mr. Xmas, (1997) Tiny, (1997) West, (1997) The Ugly Duckling, (1996) OED, (1995) Variations on a Sex Change , (1994) Roman Fever , (1996) The Ride , (1994)

Teleplays She has worked on the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights and Parenthood. She wrote for the Sundance Channel series The Red Road and the Television mini-series 11.22.63, which stars James Franco.

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1975, New York City
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Education
Brown University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship

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American screenwriter

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Bridget Carpenter was born in 1975 in New York City.

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Bridget Carpenter is a screenwriter.

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