Industry: Film & TV
Jeff Melvoin is an Emmy-winning writer-producer, showrunner and educator.
Jeff has worked on over a dozen primetime series and was showrunner on eight of them. In all, he’s been involved in over 470 hours of produced television, most recently as an executive producer on season three of Killing Eve. Other executive producer credits include Designated Survivor, Army Wives, Alias and Picket Fences.
He was supervising producer of the CBS series Northern Exposure, for which he won an Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards. Other writer-producer credits include the NBC series Hill Street Blues and Remington Steele.
Melvoin is also founder and chair of the Writers Guild of America West’s celebrated Showrunner Training Program, now in its eighteenth year. In February, 2015, Melvoin received the Morgan Cox Award, the WGA’s highest recognition for Guild service. He has taught at USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA, Harvard, and the Sundance Institute. Jeff has also lent his experience to the European Showrunner Programme, leading sessions at the inaugural edition in 2022 and will be returning in 2023.
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Jeff Melvoin on the showrunners who inspired him
TV showrunner Jeff Melvoin reflects on his two best industry teachers and what they taught him about running a successful show.
