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About Tom Fontana

Tom Fontana has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life On The Street, and Oz, for which he has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers' Guild Awards, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, and the first prize at the Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva. Fontana wrote the HBO film Strip Search, directed by Sidney Lumet, as well as contributing two pieces to the September 11th special “America: A Tribute to Heroes.” Fontana has had numerous plays produced in New York, where he lives, and at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Buffalo Studio Arena Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and McCarter Theatre Company. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Producers Guild of America, and the WGA, East, from which he received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award for lifetime achievement. His most recent TV production, The Bedford Diaries, premiered in March on the WB Network.