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American screenwriter
Rick Cleveland
is an American television writer, playwright, and monologist, best known for writing on the
HBO
original series
Six Feet Under
and
NBC
's
The West Wing
. His 2011 play
The Rail Splitter
premiered at
Carthage College
as the third production of Carthage's annual New Play Initiative. The production also traveled to the
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
(Region 3) in 2012.
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Education
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Cleveland, a graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the
University of Iowa
,
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is also a founding member of Chicago's
American Blues Theater
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Career
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Film
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Cleveland,
Brian Koppelman
,
David Levien
, and
Matthew Chapman
co-wrote the 2003 film
Runaway Jury
based on the book by
John Grisham
. He also wrote a 1998 screenplay for the independent film
Jerry and Tom
.
Television
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In 2000, Cleveland and
The West Wing
creator
Aaron Sorkin
won the Emmy Award for Best Writing for a Drama Series their episode "
In Excelsis Deo
". The episode originally aired during the 1999?2000 season. Cleveland and Sorkin also won the
Writers Guild of America Award
for best episodic drama at the
February 2001
ceremony for "In Excelsis Deo".
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Cleveland worked on the HBO original series
Six Feet Under
throughout the show's five season run. Cleveland joined the crew as a writer and producer for the show's first season in 2001. He wrote the episode "The Trip". He was promoted to supervising producer for the second season in 2002. He wrote two further episodes ? "Driving Mr. Mossback" and "The Liar and the Whore". He remained a supervising producer for the third season in 2003. He scripted two more episodes ? "Nobody Sleeps" and "Death Works Overtime". He was promoted to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 2004. He wrote two more episodes ? "In Case of Rapture" and "Grinding the Corn". He was promoted again to executive producer for the fifth and final season in 2005 and wrote his last episode, "Eat a Peach". He wrote eight episodes in total for the series.
Cleveland won the Jury Award for Best One Person Show at the 2006 US Comedy Arts Festival in
Aspen, Colorado
for his performance in "My Buddy Bill", about his fictional friendship with President
Bill Clinton
, a monologue play filmed on June 15, 2007, for a Comedy Central Special and DVD.
He served as writer for the
AMC
television drama
Mad Men
for the show's second season in 2008. He was nominated for the
Writers Guild of America Award
for Best Dramatic Series at the
February 2009 ceremony
for his work on the second season.
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Cleveland recently served as a consulting producer and writer on the
Showtime
series
Nurse Jackie
.
Filmography
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Year
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Title
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Notes
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1998
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Jerry and Tom
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Film, as writer, producer and actor
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1999
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The West Wing
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TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 21 episodes
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2001?2005
|
Six Feet Under
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TV series, wrote episodes:
- "The Trip"
- "Driving Mr. Mossback"
- "The Liar and the Whore"
- "Nobody Sleeps", with
Alan Ball
- "Death Works Overtime"
- "In Case of Rapture"
- "Grinding The Corn"
- "Eat a Peach"
produced 36 episodes
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2008
|
My Buddy Bill
|
TV film, 50 minute stand-up routine written and performed by Rick Cleveland
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2008
|
Mad Men
|
TV series, wrote episode: "The Benefactor", with
Matthew Weiner
produced 5 episodes
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2009?2010
|
Nurse Jackie
|
TV series, wrote episodes:
- "Tiny Bubbles"
- "Pill-O-Mattix"
- "Candyland"
- "What the Day Brings"
produced 19 episodes
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2010
|
Scoundrels
|
TV series, wrote episodes:
- "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire"
- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"
produced 4 episodes
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2013
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Under the Dome
|
TV series, wrote episode: "
The Fire
"
produced 4 episodes
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2013
|
Legit
|
TV series, wrote all first-season episodes except the pilot, with
Peter O'Fallon
and
Jim Jefferies
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2013
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House of Cards
|
TV series, wrote episodes:
produced 3 episodes
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2013
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Archer
|
TV series, wrote episode: "Sea Tunt: Part II", with
Adam Reed
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2016
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The Man in the High Castle
|
TV series, wrote episodes:
- "Loose Lips"
- "Duck and Cover"
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2017
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Inhumans
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TV series, wrote episodes:
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2018
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Claws
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TV series, wrote episode: "Russian Navy"
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2019
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Insatiable
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TV series, wrote episode: "Dead Girl"
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