Jeff Pinkner

Pinkner at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010.

Jeff Pinkner is an American television writer and producer. He graduated from Pikesville High School in Baltimore Maryland in 1983. He is known for his work on Alias where he served as executive producer. In 2006 and 2007, he worked as an executive producer and writer for the mystery series Lost. The Lost writing staff, including Pinkner, were nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2007 ceremony for their work on the second and third seasons of Lost. He currently works on the FOX science-fiction series Fringe.

Career

Fringe

In 2008, Pinkner began developing the FOX science-fiction series Fringe, along with co-creators, Alex Kurtzman, J.J. Abrams, and Roberto Orci. Now in its fourth season, Pinkner serves as writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner. Titles he shares with J.H. Wyman. Episodes he has co-written include:

• "The Same Old Story" (01.02) (co-written by Orci, Abrams, and Kurtzman)
• "The Arrival" (01.04) (co-written by Abrams)
• "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones" (01.07) (co-written with Abrams)
• "Bound" (02.11) (co-written by Abrams, Orci, and Kurtzman)
• "The Road Not Taken" (01.19) (Pinkner and supervising producer J.R. Orci co-wrote the teleplay, based on a story by consulting producer Akiva Goldsman)
• "There's More Than One of Everything" (01.20) (Pinkner and Wyman co-wrote the teleplay, based on a story by Goldsman and executive producer Bryan Burk)
• "Night of Desirable Objects" (02.02) (co-written with Wyman)
• "August" (02.08) (co-written by Wyman)
• "Peter" (02.16) (Pinkner, Wyman, and supervising producer Josh Singer wrote the teleplay, based on a story that they, along with Goldsman, imagined)
• "Brown Betty" (02.20) (co-written with Goldsman and Wyman)
• "Over There (Part 1)" (02.22) (co-written by Wyman and Goldsman)
• "Over There (Part 2)" (02.23) (co-written by Goldsman and Wyman)
• "Olivia" (03.01) (co-written with Wyman)
• "Entrada" (03.08) (co-written by Wyman)
• "The Firefly" (03.10) (co-written with Wyman)
• "Subject 13" (03.15) (co-written with Goldsman and Wyman)
• "Stowaway" (03.17) (Danielle Dispaltro wrote the teleplay, based on a story from Pinkner, Wyman, and Goldsman)
• "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" (03.19) (Pinkner and Wyman wrote a teleplay, based on a story that they, along with Goldsman, imagined)
• "The Day We Died" (03.22) (Pinkner and Wyman wrote a teleplay, based on a story that they, along with Goldsman, imagined)
• "Neither Here Nor There" (04.01) (Pinkner and Wyman wrote a teleplay, based on a story that they, along with Goldsman, imagined)
• "Subject 9" (04.04) (co-written with Goldsman and Wyman)

Filmography

Executive Producer

• Alias
• Lost
• Fringe

Writer

• Alias
• The Beast
• The $treet
• Ally
• Profiler
• Ally McBeal
• Early Edition (and story editor)
• Lost
• Fringe

External links

• Jeff Pinkner at the Internet Movie Database