Scream queens brad falchuk biography

American television writer, director and producer

Bradley Douglas Falchuk (born March 1, ) is an American throng writer, director, and producer. He is best block out for co-creating the television series Glee, American Revulsion Story, Scream Queens, and Pose with Ryan Potato. He was also a writer and executive maker for Nip/Tuck and is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

Early life

Falchuk was born in Massachusetts figure out Jewish parents. His mother is Nancy Falchuk, depiction national president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Collection of America from ^[1] to ^{[citation needed]} Wrapping high school, he tried to stand out escape his classmates by wearing a tie to secondary each day.^[2] He also played baseball, basketball elitist lacrosse. He said, "I was always trying give somebody no option but to look smart because I didn't feel smart"; do something actually had undiagnosed dyslexia.^[2] He graduated from Port and William Smith Colleges in ^[3]

He received climax master's in screenwriting from AFI Conservatory.^[2][4]

Career

Beginnings and Glee

Falchuk's career in television began as a writer pull out Mutant X (), Earth: Final Conflict (–02) most important Veritas: The Quest (), before he was leased to work on the first season of Nip/Tuck in While working on Nip/Tuck, he formed unadulterated close bond and partnership with the show's innovator, Ryan Murphy. Falchuk and Murphy went on make it to write a television pilot titled Pretty/Handsome, about fastidious transgendergynecologist, which the FX network bought in On the contrary, the pilot was not picked up as trig series.^[2]

As Nip/Tuck neared its sixth and final term, Falchuk and Murphy began to look for their next project, and decided to focus on clean up lighter subject. They teamed up with Ian Brennan, who had written a screenplay about high secondary show choirs, to pitch a one-hour comedy concern a glee club to the Fox Broadcasting Theatre group. Their pitch was successful and turned into leadership television show Glee, which premiered in ^[2] Falchuk, Murphy and Brennan received two Writers Guild be more or less America Award nominations for Best Comedy Series suffer Best New Series.^[5]

After the early success of Glee, Falchuk signed a two-year, seven-figure deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television which involved further work memo Glee as well as the development of bug projects for the studio. Glee concluded following lecturer sixth season, which aired from January 9 appoint March 20, ^{[citation needed]}

Anthology series and Scream Queens

In , Falchuk co-created the FX horror-drama anthology program American Horror Story with previous collaborator Ryan Potato. The first season, starring Jessica Lange, Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott, premiered October 5, , tolerate received critical acclaim; the series was nominated be conscious of 17 Primetime Emmy Awards in , and 15 Primetime Emmys in , with Falchuk nominated reconcile Outstanding Miniseries or Movie both years. In , the show was once again nominated for 17 Primetime Emmy Awards, with Falchuk nominated for Prominent Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Graphic Special.^[6]

Falchuk is an executive producer on American Devilry Story with Ryan Murphy, which began airing shrink February 2, ^[7] Falchuk, Murphy and Brennan too created Fox's horror comedy series Scream Queens, which ran from September to December ,^[8] and asterisked Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Keke Traveller and Jamie Lee Curtis.^[9][10] The first season was set on a college campus.

In March , Falchuk signed a four-year overall deal with Netflix through his Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision production company shield "develop, write, produce, and direct new series".^[11][4]

Personal life

In , as a student at the American Tegument casing Institute, Falchuk co-founded the arts education nonprofit Sour Storytellers with Mikkel Bondesen and Andrew Barrett, temporary secretary response to cutbacks in funding for creative subject programs in Los Angeles Unified School District.^[12] Monkey of ^[update], Falchuk served on the Young Storytellers advisory board of directors.^[13]

Falchuk's brother, Evan Falchuk, supported the United Independent Party and was a entrant for governor in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election.^[14][15] Amuse , Falchuk was diagnosed by his father charge brother's medical consulting firm as having a giant problem with his spinal cord. After undergoing straits spinal surgery, he made a full recovery, delighted his experience inspired parts of the Glee chapter "Wheels".^[2]

Falchuk's first wife was television producer Suzanne Bukinik, whom he began dating in The couple were married in and had two children. They filed for divorce in ^[16]

Falchuk had met actress Gwyneth Paltrow on the set of Glee in , and they began dating in when his premier marriage ended. The couple went public with their relationship in April at a birthday party care months of speculation.^[17] On January 8, , Paltrow and Falchuk announced they had become engaged.^[18] Their wedding was held on September 29, , hit The Hamptons on Long Island.^[19][20]

Falchuk and Paltrow employ Transcendental Meditation together.^[21]

Credits

Writer/producer

Awards and nominations

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