Linda Gottlieb is an American television writer and film producer.
Early life and education
[edit]Born in New Jersey, Gottlieb graduated from Wellesley College in 1960 and received an M.A. from the Russian Institute of Columbia University in 1961.
Career
[edit]Production credits
[edit]Examples of projects she has worked on include:
Films
[edit]- Limbo (1972), film starring Kate Jackson[1]
- The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972)[2]
- The Fur Coat Club (1973), film short[3]
- Summer of My German Soldier (1978), made-for-TV movie
- The Mating Season (1980)
- We're Fighting Back (1981), TV movie[4]
- The Electric Grandmother (January 17, 1982), a television movie that originally aired on NBC as a 60-minute "Peacock Project" special
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- Citizen Cohn (1992) cable TV film
- The Gentleman Bandit (2002)
- Soldier's Girl (2003)
Television episodes, series, and specials
[edit]- 13 Bourbon Street (1997), TV pilot[5]
- ABC Afterschool Specials[which?]
- ABC Weekend Specials[which?]
- NBC Special Treat[which?]
- One Life to Live (Executive Producer: 1991-1994); replaced Paul Rauch; hired Michael Malone and Josh Griffith[citation needed]. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa late 1991–1994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime—too good to be called 'soap opera.'"[citation needed]
- SoapLine,[6] a TV series characterized as "a joint production of ABC News and ABC Daytime to bring viewers storyline updates, special features and interviews during breaks in live, pre-emptive coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial"[citation needed]
Teaching
[edit]She is an adjunct professor (Master Class in Screenwriting: One on One with a Producer) at Tisch School of the Arts.[citation needed]
Collaborators
[edit]Gottlieb has worked with writer/producers such as Marsha Norman (in Face of a Stranger which was presented by Linda Gottlieb and which Norman was a writer on),[7] and Frank Pierson (on Citizen Cohn and Soldier's Girl, the latter which Gottlieb produced and Pierson directed)[8]
Awards and nominations
[edit]Gottlieb has been nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Awards,[9] Outstanding Children's Anthology/Dramatic Programming (1980),[citation needed] and Outstanding Children's Entertainment Special (1977 & 1979),[citation needed] for three Emmy Awards (1979, 1982 & 1993),[citation needed] and for an Independent Spirit Award (1988)[citation needed] and a Peabody Award.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Limbo. IMDb. 1972.
- ^ The Immigrant Experience: The Long, Long Journey. IMDb. 1972.
- ^ The Fur Coat Club. IMDb. 1973. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ Fighting Back. IMDb. 1981.
- ^ 13 Bourbon Street. IMDb. 1997.
- ^ SoapLine. IMDb.
- ^ Prouty (28 March 1994). Variety TV REV 1991-92 17 (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0824037960.
- ^ "Showtime enlists in 'Soldier'". Variety. 22 May 2002. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "Linda Gottlieb". Emmys. Retrieved 2 October 2018.