Which American screen writer won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on "The West Wing", and also wrote "Sportsnight" and "The Newsroom"?
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In Excelsis Deo "In Excelsis Deo" is the tenth episode of the first season of "The West Wing". It originally aired on NBC December 15, 1999, as the show's Christmas special. Events circle around Toby getting involved in the fate of a dead Korean War veteran, reactions to a severe hate crime, and the ongoing controversy surrounding Leo's past alcohol and prescription drug abuse. Written by Aaron Sorkin and Rick Cleveland and directed by Alex Graves, the episode contains guest appearances by Paul Austin and Raynor Scheine. It also earned Sorkin and Cleveland the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, as well as one for Richard Schiff.
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Aaron Sorkin Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays "A Few Good Men" and "The Farnsworth Invention"; the television series "Sports Night", "The West Wing", "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and "The Newsroom"; and the films "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "Charlie Wilson's War", "Moneyball" and "Steve Jobs". For writing "The Social Network", he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, among other awards. He made his feature directorial debut in 2017 with "Molly's Game", which he also wrote.
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Jeff Westbrook Jeff Westbrook is a TV writer best known for his work on "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", for which he is a three-time winner of the WGA Award.
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Terence Winter Terence Patrick Winter (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and producer of television and film. He is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series "Boardwalk Empire" (2010–14). Before creating "Boardwalk Empire", Winter was a writer and executive producer for the HBO television series "The Sopranos", from the show's second to sixth and final season (2000–2007). In 2013, he wrote the screenplay to Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was also the co-creator, writer and executive producer of another HBO television drama series, "Vinyl" (2016), which premiered for one season.
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Peter Noah Peter Noah is an American television writer and producer. He served as an executive producer and regular writer for the NBC drama "The West Wing". Noah first became involved with the series as a consulting producer and regular writer for the fifth season and was promoted to supervising producer before the season's end. He continued in this role for the sixth season before becoming an executive producer for the seventh and final season.
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West Wing Week West Wing Week is a weekly released web-episode by The White House of the week's events concerning the President of the United States. The show was created in 2010 during the 2nd year of the Presidency of Barack Obama. The footage is currently shot and edited by the video team from the Office of Digital Strategy and narrated by White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest; it was initially shot and edited by former White House videographer Arun Chaudhary, who created the series.
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Cindy Chupack Cindy Chupack is a screenwriter who has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/executive producer of HBO's "Sex and the City" and writer/co-executive producer of ABC's "Modern Family".
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Sanford Jay Frank Sanford Jay "Sandy" Frank, also known as Sandy Frank (July 21, 1954 – April 18, 2014), was a television writer who was known as a writer for "Late Night with David Letterman". He wrote for Letterman's NBC show for four years, during which the show won four Emmy Awards for comedy-variety writing. Frank had a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a law degree from Harvard and had written for "The Harvard Lampoon".
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Paris Barclay Paris K.C. Barclay (born June 30, 1956) is an American television director and producer, and writer. He is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is among the busiest single-camera television directors, having directed over 150 episodes of television to date, for series such as "NYPD Blue", "ER", "The West Wing", "", "Lost", "The Shield", "House", "Law & Order", "Monk", "Numb3rs", "City of Angels", "Cold Case", and more recently "Sons of Anarchy", "The Bastard Executioner", "The Mentalist", "Weeds", "", "In Treatment", "Glee", "Smash" and "The Good Wife", "Extant", and "Manhattan", "Empire", and "Scandal". Most recently, Barclay worked as an executive producer and principal director for the Fox series "Pitch", and directed the CBS pilot, "Perfect Citizen."
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Steve Hely Steve Hely is an American writer, current co-executive producer on the series "Veep".
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John Spencer (actor) John Spencer (December 20, 1946 – December 16, 2005) was an American actor. He was most widely known for his role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the NBC political drama series "The West Wing", for which he won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2002.
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Ian Brennan (writer) Ian Brennan (born April 23, 1978) is a television writer, actor, producer and director. He is best known for his work on the American television shows "Glee" and "Scream Queens".
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David Shaber David Shaber (1929 – November 4, 1999) was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, who wrote the screenplays for "The Warriors", "Nighthawks", "Rollover", "Last Embrace" and "Flight of the Intruder". He also wrote the final draft, though uncredited, for the John McTiernan film "The Hunt for Red October".
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Jeff Martin (writer) Jeff Martin is an American television producer and writer. He originally wrote for "The Simpsons" during the second, third, and fourth seasons, and eventually returned over 20 years later to write again for seasons 27 and 28. He attended Harvard University, where he wrote for "The Harvard Lampoon", as have many other "Simpsons" writers. He left along with most of the original staff in 1993, and has since written for several TV shows, including "Listen Up!", "Baby Blues" and "Homeboys in Outer Space". He also wrote for "Late Night with David Letterman" during the 1980s, and occasionally appeared on the show as Flunkie the late-night viewer mail clown, a depressed clown who smoked cigarettes and sometimes talked about his infected tattoos. Martin won four Emmys during his time at "Late Night".
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Michael Chiklis Michael Charles Chiklis (born August 30, 1963) is an American actor and television producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama "The Shield", for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He is also known for playing Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama "The Commish", The Thing in the "Fantastic Four" film series, and Jim Powell on the ABC science-fiction comedy-drama "No Ordinary Family". Additionally, he co-starred as Vincent Savino in the CBS crime drama "Vegas". In 2014 Chiklis joined the cast of "American Horror Story" for its fourth season, "". The following year he was cast as Nathaniel Barnes, in the second season of "Gotham""," as a series regular.
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David E. Kelley David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of "Picket Fences", "Chicago Hope", "The Practice", "Ally McBeal", "Boston Public", "Boston Legal", "Harry's Law", and "Big Little Lies", as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks (ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC).
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John Altschuler John Altschuler (born July 10, 1963) is an American television and film producer and writer.
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Michael Cassutt Michael Joseph Cassutt (born April 13, 1954) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author. His notable TV work includes producing or writing, or both, for "The Outer Limits", "Eerie, Indiana", "Beverly Hills, 90210", and "The Twilight Zone". In addition to his work in television, Cassutt has written over thirty short stories, predominately in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He has also published novels, including the 1986 "The Star Country", the 1991 "Dragon Season", the 2001 "Red Moon" and the 2011 "Heaven's Shadow," in collaboration with David S. Goyer. In addition, Cassutt contributes non-fiction articles to magazines and is the author of the non-fiction book, "Who's Who in Space".
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John Eisendrath John Eisendrath is an American television series producer and writer. He created and served as the Executive Producer and Showrunner for the series "Outlaw", "Playmakers", and currently serves as Executive Producer on NBC's "The Blacklist". He is married to television writer Jennifer Levin. He is a father of four, and lives in LA.
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Melissa Rosenberg Melissa Anne Rosenberg (born August 28, 1962) is an American screenwriter. She has worked in both film and television and has won a Peabody Award. She has also been nominated for two Emmy Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards. Since joining the Writers Guild of America, she has been involved in its Board of Directors and was a strike captain during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. She supports female screenwriters through the WGA Diversity Committee and co-founded the League of Hollywood Women Writers.
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Arnold Vinick Arnold Vinick is a fictional character on the television series "The West Wing" played by Alan Alda. The role earned Alda the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2006.
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Eddie Gorodetsky Eddie Gorodetsky is a television writer and producer. His credits include "Desert Bus", "Mom", "Two and a Half Men", "Dharma & Greg", "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", "Mike & Molly", "Saturday Night Live", "SCTV Network 90", and "Late Night with David Letterman". He has been nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning one.