Robin Green
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| Robin Green | |
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| Occupation | Television Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable work(s) | The Sopranos, Blue Bloods |
Robin Green is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer. She worked extensively on the HBO hit series The Sopranos. She was a creator and executive producer for Blue Bloods.
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[edit] Early life
A Rhode Island native,[citation needed] Robin Green earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Literature from Brown University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
In 1968, Green worked as Marvel Comics' secretary-receptionist and "Gal Friday" for editor-in-chief Stan Lee.[1] After moving on to become a magazine journalist in such publications as Rolling Stone, Green worked variously as a waitress,[citation needed] a magazine editor,[citation needed] a ditch digger,[citation needed] a computer programmer,[citation needed] an elevator operator in a meat-packing plant,[citation needed] and as a Specialist Four, US Army.[citation needed]
Upon entering the television industry as a writer, Green wrote and produced for such series as Northern Exposure, A Year in the Life and Almost Grown, and wrote the Showtime TV movie Critical Choices.[citation needed]
In 2010 Green worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of police drama Southland.
[edit] Personal life
Green is married to her The Sopranos co-writer Mitchell Burgess.[citation needed]
[edit] Awards
Green won an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards 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.
[edit] References
- ^ 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".
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