Will Scheffer is an American playwright and co-creator and executive producer of Big Love with longtime life-partner Mark V. Olsen.His writing credits include Big Love: In the Beginning, Ellis Island, Duck Town, Easter (film), In the Gloaming, The Pact and Citizen Baines.In 1997, Scheffer was honored with the Variety magazine "One of the Rising Writers to Watch" award. He has also taught and lectured at Bernard M. Baruch College, Lewis and Clark College and School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, New York City.Scheffer is openly gay; he and Olsen have been married to each other since the early 1990s.
New York, NY, USA: Author of play "The Green Book" which opened Off-Broadway. [August 2011]
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New York, NY, USA: Reports that he and partner Olsen, Mark V. are working on two series for HBO-- one a dark comedy about aging mothers, the other a family drama. [August 2011]
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His father was a Holocaust survivor, and this family legacy is the subject of his 2011 play, 'The Green Book,' which he wrote and directed.
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His writing and producing partner and his Big Love (2006) co-creator Mark V. Olsen is also his longtime partner.
TV Series created for American television by - 18 episodes, 2013 - 2015 written by - 6 episodes, 2015 teleplay by - 6 episodes, 2014 teleplay - 6 episodes, 2013
Big Love
TV Series creator - 53 episodes, 2006 - 2011 written by - 16 episodes, 2006 - 2011 teleplay - 5 episodes, 2006 - 2009
Big Love: In the Beginning
TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 2007 creator - 1 episode, 2007
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