Will Scheffer
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His writing credits include Big Love: In the Beginning, Ellis Island,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Duck Town, Easter, In the Gloaming, The Pact, Citizen Baines, and Getting On.[1]
Life
Family
Scheffer's father, Ben, was a Holocaust survivor,[2] who emigrated from the Netherlands through Ellis Island in 1941. His mother, Sandra, was the daughter of Jews who fled Russia in 1916.[3]
Education
Scheffer attended State University of New York at Purchase where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Theater.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career
In 1997, Scheffer received the Variety magazine "One of the Rising Writers to Watch" award. He has also taught and lectured at Bernard M. Baruch College, Lewis and Clark College and School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, New York City.
Personal life
Scheffer is openly gay; he and Olsen have been married to each other since the early 1990s.[4][5] About their collaborative process, Scheffer said: "Mark and I talk everything through but don't actually write together. We take turns on drafts, passing them back and forth for multiple revisions. Sometimes I'll write the first draft and he'll revise and sometimes he'll write the first draft. On set it's looser and we'll have to revise together but we prefer to actually write in our own space. The 'fantasy' image of having desks facing each other and tossing lines back and forth doesn't work for us."[6]
Works
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- Living people
- American people of Dutch-Jewish descent
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American dramatists and playwrights
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- American male screenwriters
- Jewish American dramatists and playwrights
- American male television writers
- American television writers
- American soap opera writers
- Television producers from New York (state)
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- LGBTQ television producers
- American gay writers
- State University of New York at Purchase alumni
- Baruch College faculty
- Lewis & Clark College faculty
- School of Visual Arts faculty
- Writers Guild of America Award winners
- 1969 births
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Screenwriters from Oregon
- 21st-century American Jews