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Michael Patrick King Born September 14, 1954
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.Occupation Film/television producer, director and writer Years active 1989–present Michael Patrick King (born September 14, 1954) is an American director, writer and producer for television shows.
Life and career
King was born to an Irish American family in Scranton, Pennsylvania and was raised as a Roman Catholic.[1][2] In the 1980s King moved to New York, did stand-up comedy, and wrote plays.
He eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he found work writing for the television series Murphy Brown, and was nominated for several Emmys.[3] He has written for another HBO show, The Comeback, as well as for broadcast shows Will & Grace, Good Advice and Cybill. But he is best-known for his work on the HBO series Sex and the City, which was created by Darren Star. King wrote all the season premieres and finales of Sex and the City (except its Pilot, written by Star, and the fifth season finale, which King co-wrote with Cindy Chupack). [4] King also directed the show's film adaptation, and its follow-up, Sex and the City 2. He is featured on The Other Network Writers Room, an audio series for aspiring comedy writers.
He is openly gay[5] and owns Arcade Productions. He lives in Greenwich Village.
References
- ^ Profile of Michael Patrick King
- ^ "Michael Patrick King and Sex and the City 2" by Rachel Abramowitz, Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2010
- ^ "Michael Patrick King", Sex and the City Cast & Crew, http://www.hbo.com/city/cast/crew/michael_patrick_king.shtml, retrieved 2007-11-27
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City_episodes
- ^ Poniewozik, James (March 7, 2005), "Queer Eye for Straight TV", Time Magazine, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1034725,00.html, retrieved 2007-11-27
External links
- Michael Patrick King at the Internet Movie Database
- Short interview
- Archive of the original Sex and the City newspaper columns
- Un-Cabaret
- The Other Network Writers Room
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (2001–2025) Todd Holland (2001) · Michael Patrick King (2002) · Robert B. Weide (2003) · Anthony and Joe Russo (2004) · Charles McDougall (2005) · Marc Buckland (2006) · Richard Shepard (2007) · Barry Sonnenfeld (2008) · Jeffrey Blitz (2009) · Ryan Murphy (2010) · Michael Spiller (2011)
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- American screenwriters
- American television directors
- American television producers
- Emmy Award winners
- LGBT directors
- LGBT writers from the United States
- Living people
- People from Scranton, Pennsylvania
- American people of Irish descent
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