Rick Cleveland Biography

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Rick Cleveland is an American television writer, playwright and monologist, best known for writing on the HBO original series, Six Feet Under and NBC's The West Wing.

More recently, he served as executive producer on the critically acclaimed HBO original series Six Feet Under from 2001–2005 which ran for 5 seasons.

Most recently, Rick won the Jury Award for Best One Person Show at the 2006 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado for his performance in "My Buddy Bill," a monolog play soon to be filmed for a Comedy Central Special and DVD.

In 2000, Cleveland and The West Wing creator, Aaron Sorkin won an Emmy and Writers Guild Award for their episode In Excelceis Deo an episode which originally aired during the 1999-2000 season.

Cleveland, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Matthew Chapman all co-wrote the 2003 film Runaway Jury based on the book by John Grisham. He also wrote a 1998 screenplay for the independent film, Jerry and Tom.

In 2005, Cleveland linked a 2 year deal with NBC Universal Television in which he will produce and develop drama projects for the network. Also, he is writing a "Frankenstein" movie for Will Ferrell.

Six Feet Under episodes

• The Trip, (2001)
  
• Driving Mr. Mossback, (2002)
  
• The Liar and the Whore, (2002)
  
• Nobody Sleeps, with Alan Ball (2003)
  
• Death Works Overtime, (2003)
  
• In Case of Rapture, (2004)
  
• Grinding The Corn, (2004)
  
• Eat a Peach, (2005)
  

The West Wing episodes

• In Excelsis Deo, with Aaron Sorkin (1999)
  
• Enemies (1999) (story) with Patrick Cadell and Lawrence O'Donnell
  

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