Erin Levy - Wikipedia

Erin Levy

Occupation	Television Writer
Nationality	American
Notable works	Mad Men

Erin Levy is an American television writer. She has worked on the AMC drama Mad Men and has won an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award.

Biography

[edit]

Daughter of television writer Lawrence H. Levy, Erin Levy took a screenwriting seminar at USC in high school, which sparked her interest in following in her father's footsteps.

Levy attended USC undergraduate for screenwriting, where one of her professors was Matthew Weiner. The two kept in touch, and when Weiner needed a writing assistant, Levy joined the crew of AMC drama Mad Men as a writing assistant for the third season in 2009.^[1] The first episode she co-wrote was the season finale, "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." Levy and the writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the third season.^[2]^[3]

"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" is her first episode where she is given solo writing credit.

In 2010, she and the rest of the writing staff won an Emmy Award for her writing in the AMC drama Mad Men.

She is credited as a writer for the 2017-2019 Starz series Counterpart.

References

[edit]

^ "USC Cinematic Arts | School of Cinematic Arts News". cinema.usc.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
^ Gregg Mitchell & Sherry Goldman (2009). "2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
^ "Writers Guild Awards - 2010 Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2010-05-01.

External links

[edit]

Erin Levy at IMDb

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
1950s	Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955)
1960s	Rod Serling for The Twilight Zone (1960) Rod Serling for The Twilight Zone (1961) Reginald Rose for The Defenders (1962) Robert Thom & Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963) Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" / Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work" (1964) David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966) Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967) Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968) JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971) Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972) John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973) Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974) Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975) Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976) William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977) Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978) Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979)
1980s	Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980) Michael Kozoll & Steven Bochco for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll & Jeff Lewis & Michael Wagner & Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982) David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983) John Ford Noonan, John Masius & Tom Fontana for "The Women" (1984) Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985) Tom Fontana, John Masius & Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986) Steven Bochco & Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987) Paul Haggis & Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988) Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989)
1990s	David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990) David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991) Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992) Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993) Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994) Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996) David Milch, Stephen Gaghan and Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997) David Milch, Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998) James Manos Jr. and David Chase for "College" (1999)
2000s	Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000) Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green for "Employee of the Month" (2001) Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for "12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m." (2002) Mitchell Burgess & David Chase & Robin Green for "Whitecaps" (2003) Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking" (2004) David Shore for "Three Stories" (2005) Terence Winter for "Members Only" (2006) David Chase for "Made in America" (2007) Matthew Weiner for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2008) Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner for "Meditations in an Emergency" (2009)
2010s	Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner for "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." (2010) Jason Katims for "Always" (2011) Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff for "Pilot" (Homeland) (2012) Henry Bromell for "Q&A" (2013) Moira Walley-Beckett for "Ozymandias" (2014) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016) Bruce Miller for "Offred" (2017) Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg for "START" (2018) Jesse Armstrong for "Nobody Is Ever Missing" (2019)
2020s	Jesse Armstrong for "This Is Not for Tears" (2020) Peter Morgan for "War" (2021) Jesse Armstrong for "All the Bells Say" (2022) Jesse Armstrong for "Connor's Wedding" (2023) Will Smith for "Negotiating with Tigers" (2024)

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama (2010–2019)

Erin Levy for "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" (2010)
Vince Gilligan for "Box Cutter" / Henry Bromell for "The Good Soldier" (2011)
Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner for "The Other Woman" (2012)
Gennifer Hutchison for "Confessions" (2013)
Robert King & Michelle King for "The Last Call" (2014)
Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould for "Uno" (2015)
Vera Herbert for "The Trip" (2016)
Gordon Smith for "Chicanery" (2017)
Alex Gansa for "Paean to the People" (2018)
Will Tracy for "Tern Haven" (2019)