David Milch

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David Milch (1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American televison writer, producer, and executive.

He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Milch worked as a teacher and lecturer in English literature at Yale. During his teaching career at Yale, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several college textbooks on literature. Milch's poetry and fiction have been published in The Atlantic Monthly and the Southern Review.

In 1982, Milch wrote a script for Hill Street Blues. This began his career in television. He worked five seasons on Hill Street Blues as executive story editor and then as executive producer. Milch earned two more Writers Guild Awards, a second Humanitas prize, and another Emmy while working on that show.

Milch created NYPD Blue with Steven Bochco and served as Executive Producer of that series for seven seasons. After NYPD Blue, Milch created a CBS series called Big Apple.

Milch is currently in production on Deadwood, a dramatic series for HBO. Milch serves as creator, writer, and executive producer. The series ended in 2006, following its third season, but there are plans for two feature length movies.

[edit] Television credits (as creator)

Total Security (1997) - co-creator, writer.
NYPD Blue (1993-2005) - co-creator, writer, producer.
Deadwood - creator, writer, producer.
Capital News (1990) - co-creator, writer, producer.

[edit] Awards and recognition

1994 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "4B or Not 4B")
1995 Emmy Award, Best Drama Series (NYPD Blue)
1995 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "Simone Says") (shared with Steven Bochco and Walon Green)

[edit] External links

David Milch at the Internet Movie Database
Profile: HBO
David Milch article at Salon.com

Milch at MIT http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/383/

NYPD Blue
Characters	Andy Sipowicz \| John Kelly \| Bobby Simone \| Sylvia Costas \| Diane Russell \| Danny Sorensen
Actors	Dennis Franz \| David Caruso \| Jimmy Smits \| Rick Schroder \| Mark-Paul Gosselaar James McDaniel \| Gordon Clapp \| Nicholas Turturro \| Sharon Lawrence \| Kim Delaney \| Sherry Stringfield Gail O'Grady \| Andrea Thompson \| Bill Brochtrup \| Henry Simmons \| Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon \| Charlotte Ross Esai Morales \| Jacqueline Obradors \| John F. O'Donohue \| Currie Graham \| Bonnie Somerville
Creators	Steven Bochco \| David Milch
Episodes	Season 1 \| Season 2 \| Season 3 \| Season 4 \| Season 5 Season 6 \| Season 7 \| Season 8 \| Season 9 Season 10 \| Season 11 \| Season 12