Event Details
Wednesday
September 30, 2020 4:00 pm
via Zoom
Join Tom Fontana at his alma mater for in an online Zoom Q&A. We will be talking about Tom’s show, COPPER, and other career highlights. This is a PRIVATE event for TFA majors and WGA members only.
About Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as ST. ELSEWHERE, HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET, OZ, THE PHILANTHROPIST, COPPER and Netflix’s BORGIA. He is currently the showrunner on the Showtime series, CITY ON A HILL. 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, a Special Edgar 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 contributed two pieces to the September 11th special AMERICA: A TRIBUTE TO HEROES.
Fontana has taught at Columbia, Syracuse, Rutgers and Buffalo State, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Producers Guild of America, the Friars Club, the Players Club, the Writers Guild of America, East, from which he received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award, the Richard B. Jablow Award and the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement. Fontana co-founded Stockings with Care and serves on the boards of the American Theatre Wing, the WGAE Foundation’s Writers Guild Initiative and The Williamstown Theatre Festival.
About Jeffrey Hirschberg
Jeffrey Hirschberg is a writer/director member of the Writers Guild of America, East, and a film professor and founding director of the Television and Film Arts program at Buffalo State College. He is the author of Reflections of the Shadow: Creating Memorable Heroes and Villains for Film and TV and the upcoming novel, Completely Incomplete. Jeffrey was a winner of the WGAE’s Screenplay Reading Series and directed the WGAE’s TV Pilots Resurrected program at Lincoln Center. A member of the Friars Club, he sold a series to Showtime and was twice a participant in the ABC Daytime Writer Development Program. Jeffrey is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Master’s degree from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School.
