Stephen Schiff is best known for his work at The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, his screenplays for Lolita, True Crime, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and his work as a writer and producer on the FX television series The Americans.
15 Facts About Stephen Schiff
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From 1987 until 1996, Stephen Schiff was the Film Critic of National Public Radio's Fresh Air.
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Stephen Schiff served three terms as chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, and spent two seasons as a Correspondent on CBS-TV's prime-time newsmagazine West 57th, whose other Correspondents included Steve Kroft and Meredith Vieira.
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In 1995, Stephen Schiff was asked to write a screenplay adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, by the prospective film's then-producer, Richard Zanuck.
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Stephen Schiff became a full-time screenwriter, leaving The New Yorker in 2003.
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In 2013, Stephen Schiff became a writer and Consulting Producer of the FX television series The Americans, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.
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Stephen Schiff received two Prime Time Emmy Award nominations and two additional Writers Guild of America Award nominations.
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Stephen Schiff served four terms on the governing Council of the Writers Guild of America East.
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Stephen Schiff served as the Writers Guild's National Chairman and twice headed the East's negotiating committee.
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Stephen Schiff contributed the critical essay on Nabokov's Lolita to Harvard University Press's landmark scholarly compendium A New Literary History of America, which was published in September, 2009.
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In December 2009, Henry Holt and Company announced that it would publish Stephen Schiff's forthcoming biography of Norman Mailer.
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In November 2018, Stephen Schiff was hired by Lucasfilm to serve as showrunner for Andor TV series.
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Stephen Schiff stepped down from the position in February 2020, and in April 2020 Tony Gilroy replaced him as showrunner.
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Stephen Schiff remained involved with the series, writing the seventh episode of the first season.
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Stephen Schiff was an Executive Producer and writer on the Showtime TV series Super Pumped.