Stephen Tolkin

Stephen Tolkin is an American television writer, director and composer. He worked on a number of American television series including Brothers & Sisters, Perception, Legend of the Seeker and Switched at Birth. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television) for A Day Late and a Dollar Short.

Early life and education Tolkin is the son of Mel Tolkin, the award-winning head writer of Your Show of Shows and Edith Tolkin, who was Paramount Pictures' senior vice president of legal affairs, and brother of Michael Tolkin.

He attended Yale College, where he was awarded the 1975 Peter J. Wallace Prize for Fiction for his short story Notes for a Biography of Lelia Reiszman, and the Yale School of Architecture. He wrote and directed New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell, based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, and Daybreak, for HBO.

He has directed episodes of American Playhouse, Switched at Birth and the miniseries Golden Years.

He wrote music and lyrics for songs performed in Legend of the Seeker, A Day Late and a Dollar Short and Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story, a film he also wrote and directed.

Filmography

Writer Captain America (1990) Intensity (1997) Kate Brasher (2001) Summerland (series creator, 2004-2005) The Craigslist Killer (2011) Legend of the Seeker (also executive producer, developed by, composer, 2008-2010) Brothers & Sisters (4 episodes, 2010-2011) Perception (2 episodes, 2012) Cleveland Abduction (2015) Somewhere Between (also executive producer, developed by, 2017) Doomsday Mom (2021) See (1 episode, 2021)

Director Daybreak (also writer, 1993) Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story (also writer, 1999) Carolina Moon (also writer, 2007) What If God Were the Sun? (2007) A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014) Switched at Birth (2017) New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell (also writer, 2017) Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill (also writer, 2018) House of Chains (also writer, 2022) How To Murder Your Husband (also writer, 2023)