Robin Green
Robin Green | |
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Born | Rhode Island |
Occupation | Television writer, producer |
Nationality | American |
Notable works | The Sopranos, Blue Bloods |
Spouse | Mitchell Burgess |
Robin Green is an American writer and producer. She was an executive producer on the HBO series The Sopranos.[1] She was a creator and executive producer for Blue Bloods.
Biography[]
A Rhode Island native,[2] Robin Green earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American literature from Pembroke College in Brown University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.[2] Green is Jewish.[3]
In 1968, Green worked as Marvel Comics' secretary-receptionist and "Gal Friday" for editor-in-chief Stan Lee.[4]
After moving on from Marvel she spent time as a magazine journalist in such publications as Rolling Stone.[5]
Upon entering the television industry as a writer, Green wrote and produced for such series as The Sopranos[6] Northern Exposure, A Year in the Life and Almost Grown, and wrote the Showtime TV movie .[citation needed] In 2010 Green worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of police drama Southland.
In August 2018 Little Brown and Company published Green's memoir, The Only Girl: My life and times on the masthead of Rolling Stone.[7]
Green is married to The Sopranos co-writer Mitchell Burgess.[8][9]
Awards[]
Green won an Emmy Award for her work on the CBS series Northern Exposure. She was awarded the 2001 and 2003 Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of The Sopranos, as well as in 2004 for Outstanding Drama Series. In addition she has won two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe for that show.
References[]
- ^ Franks, Don (October 28, 2004). Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide, 1928 through 2003, 3d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9781476608068.
- ^ Jump up to: a b http://wewantedtobewriters.com/our-authors/robin-green/
- ^ "Subscribe to read | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved June 7, 2021. Cite uses generic title (help)
- ^ Green, Robin, "Face Front! Clap Your Hands, You're on the Winning Team!", Rolling Stone #91, September 16, 1971, via "Green Skin's Grab-Bag" (fan site) (Archive.org archive): "It was three ago that I went to work at Marvel Comics. I replaced Flo [Steinberg], whose place I really couldn't take. Fabulous Flo Steinberg, as she was known to her public, was as much an institution in Marvel's Second Golden Age as Editor Stan (The Man) Lee himself".
- ^ "Robin Green". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
- ^ "The Sopranos". The Telegraph. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
- ^ "Book Marks reviews of The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone by Robin Green Book Marks". bookmarks.reviews. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
- ^ http://www.thefutoncritic.com/interviews/2011/02/18/interview-blue-bloods-executive-producers-leonard-goldberg-and-robin-green-409005/20110218_bluebloods/
- ^ http://www.vulture.com/2010/05/the_sopranos_blue_bloods_david.html
External links[]
- Robin Green at IMDb
- American television producers
- American women television producers
- American television writers
- Pembroke College in Brown University alumni
- Brown University alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Living people
- American women television writers
- Writers Guild of America Award winners
- Primetime Emmy Award winners
- Showrunners