Nancy Fichman

Nancy Fichman
Occupation Screenwriter
Television writer

Nancy Fichman is an American film and television writer, having worked on series such as Nurse Jackie and Damages. She also wrote the 2005 made-for-television movie The Dead Will Tell.[1] She often works with her writing partner Jennifer Hoppe-House. The pair have two screenplays currently in development, Lost Girls and The Allegation.[1]

Career

Film

Fichman and Hoppe-House are the writers of an upcoming film entitled Fortune, which takes place in Las Vegas and tells the intersecting story of a petty thief seeking a way out of his life after a roadside killing and two sisters who team up to collect a bounty on a mobster. The film, directed by Clark Johnson, was shot in Canada on in August, 2011.[2] The two also have two screenplays in development. The first, Lost Girls, revolves around a small-town lawyer in Canada defending a serial killer who begins to have flashbacks of crimes he may have committed in childhood. The second, The Allegation, tells the story of a marriage that begins to fall apart when their lives are interrupted by a blackmailer.[1]

Television

Fichman and Hoppe-House served as story editors and staff writers on the first two seasons of Nurse Jackie and as story editors on the fourth season of Damages. They contributed two scripts for each series.

Episodes of Nurse Jackie

  • Steak Knight (1.07)
  • Bleeding (2.06)

Episodes of Damages

  • I've Done Way Too Much for This Girl (4.02)
  • We'll Just Have to Find Another Way to Cut the Balls Off of This Thing (4.05)

Awards and nominations

In 2009 and 2010, Fichman and Hoppe-House were nomination for a Writers Guild of America award. Both nominations were for their work on Nurse Jackie.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Nancy Fichman Filmography". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Franklin, Garth (May 26, 2011). "Basinger, Patric, Graham Find "Fortune"". Dark Horizons. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ "2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America, West. December 14, 2009. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  4. ↑ "2011 Writers Guild Awards Television, News, Radio, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America, West. December 8, 2010. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
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