Frank Rich has produced television series and documentaries for HBO.
19 Facts About Frank Rich
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Frank Rich served as executive producer of the long-running HBO comedy series Veep, having joined the show at its outset in 2011, and of the HBO drama series Succession.
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Frank Rich attended public schools and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1967.
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Frank Rich was an honorary Harvard College scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship.
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Frank Rich served as chief theater critic of The New York Times from 1980 to 1993, earning the nickname "Butcher of Broadway" for the perceived power of his negative reviews to close Broadway shows.
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Frank Rich first won attention from theater-goers with an essay for The Harvard Crimson about the Broadway musical Follies, by Stephen Sondheim, during its pre-Broadway tryout run in Boston.
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Frank Rich wrote The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson, with Lisa Aronson, in 1987.
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From 1994 to 2011, Frank Rich was an op-ed columnist for The New York Times; he wrote regularly on the connections between mass media and American politics.
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The commentator Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News Channel talk show The O'Reilly Factor, criticized Frank Rich following Frank Rich's criticism of Fox in 2004 as having a politically conservative bias.
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Since 2008, Frank Rich has been a creative consultant for HBO, where he helps initiate and develop new programming and is an Executive Producer of Veep, the long-running comedy series created by Armando Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Frank Rich is an Executive Producer of Succession, the HBO drama series created by Jesse Armstrong that debuted in June 2018 to critical praise.
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Frank Rich was an Executive Producer for the HBO documentaries Six by Sondheim, directed by James Lapine, and Becoming Mike Nichols, directed by Douglas McGrath.
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In 2011, Frank Rich was awarded an honorary doctorate from The New School.
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Frank Rich was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Frank Rich was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, in 1987 and 2005.
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Frank Rich received Emmy Awards in 2015,2016, and 2017 for Veep, which was named Outstanding Comedy Series, and in 2020 for Succession, which was named Outstanding Drama Series.
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Frank Rich received a Golden Globe in 2020 for Succession, which won the Best Drama Series prize.
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Frank Rich has won three Peabody Awards: for Succession in 2020, for Veep in 2017, and, in 2013, for Six by Sondheim, which was honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award.
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Frank Rich has two sons from his previous marriage to Gail Winston, Simon Rich, a novelist and short story writer who created the television series Man Seeking Woman and was a writer for Saturday Night Live, and Nathaniel Rich, who is a novelist, journalist, and essayist.