THE MINDS BEHIND THE MEN

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THE MINDS BEHIND THE MEN

MATTHEW WEINER

Series Creator/Executive Producer

Matthew Weiner is the series creator and executive producer for the award-winning AMC drama MAD MEN now entering its second season. In its first season, the series has garnered a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama Series, a Peabody Award, a Writers Guild

Award for New Series, an AFI award as one of the top 10 Outstanding Television Programs of

2007, and a Satellite Award for Best Television Ensemble. The series also landed on the top of many TV critics’ end-of-the-year lists as one of the top TV programs of 2007.

Weiner was an executive producer and writer on “The Sopranos,” the critically acclaimed drama series on HBO. Along with the other executive producers, “The Sopranos” won the

2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and garnered Weiner an Emmy nomination with co-writer Terence Winter for outstanding writing in the episode

"Unidentified Black Males." Weiner earned a 2007 Writers Guild Award (TV) for the series and a 2005 PGA Golden Laurel Award for Television Producer of the Year in Episodic.

Before working on “The Sopranos,” Weiner produced various television series, including

“The Naked Truth,” “Becker,” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe.” He also wrote and directed the independent feature, What Do You Do All Day?

Born in Los Angeles, Weiner studied Philosophy, Literature, and History at Wesleyan

University. He also earned his MFA from the University of Southern California School of

Cinema and Television. Weiner currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four sons.

SCOTT HORNBACHER

Co-Executive Producer

Scott Hornbacher enters his second season as the Co-Executive Producer of the award winning series MAD MEN.

Hornbacher was Co-Producer on “The Sopranos,” the critically acclaimed drama series on

HBO. As part of the directorial team, he was a co-recipient of the DGA Award for

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for the episode “Whitecaps” and the pilot of MAD MEN “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.”

Hornbacher also worked as Co-Producer on season 6 of the television series “Third Watch”

(NBC) and was UPM on the television movie “Iron Jawed Angels” (HBO), which was nominated for five Emmy Awards. He produced Interview, a feature remake of a film by

Theo Van Gogh. Directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller, it was released by Sony Classics in July 2007.

Born and raised in Moorhead, Minnesota, Hornbacher studied filmmaking at Film in the

Cities in St. Paul, Minnesota. After living and working in New York City for 19 years, he now lives in South Pasadena with his wife and three sons.

LISA ALBERT

Supervising Producer

Lisa Albert has worked as a writer/producer of numerous television shows including “Major

Dad,” “State of Grace,” and “Beautiful People.” She was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles.

ANDRE & MARIA JACQUEMETTON

Supervising Producers

André and Maria Jacquemetton are a husband and wife writing team who has managed to work together and stay married for nearly two decades. Don't ask them how they do it.

André was born and raised in Lyon, France, and studied creative writing at Wake Forest

University and Loyola Marymount University. Maria grew up in suburban Boston,

Massachusetts, where she earned an M.S. in Film from Boston University College of

Communication. The Jacquemettons have written for numerous television drama series including "Star Trek: Enterprise" and "Highlander."

MARTI NOXON

Consulting Producer

Marti Noxon, executive producer on shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Grey’s

Anatomy” and "Private Practice," is currently writing and producing multiple projects, including the features "Witches" for the Walt Disney Company and “Box City” for producers

Julie Lynn and Linda Goldstein Knowlton. Noxon, a graduate of the theater department of

UC Santa Cruz, currently lives in Hollywood with her husband and two children.

DAVID ISAACS

Consulting Producer

David Isaacs joins the second season writing staff of MAD MEN as Consulting Producer.

David’s writing and producing career began in the 1970s as a story editor on “MASH.”

Along with his writing partner Ken Levine, David went on to write, co-produce and consult for several hit series including “Cheers,” “Wings,” “Frasier” and “Becker.” Their work together earned them two Writers Guild awards for Best Comedy Script for “Cheers” and an

Emmy for co-producing “Cheers” as well as seven Writers Guild nominations and six Emmy nominations.

David was born in New York City and attended the University of Miami where he earned a degree in Communications. He currently lives in Pacific Palisades, Ca. with his wife Lesley and their three daughters.

ROBIN VEITH

Staff Writer

Robin Veith met Matthew Weiner in 2000 when he hired her to be his creative personal trainer as he wrote the original pilot script for MAD MEN. Over the next seven years, she went on to work extensively in theatre as a stage manager in Los Angeles, San Francisco,

Toronto, New York and Phoenix. During this time, she had the pleasure of working with and learning from such luminaries as Norman Lear, Alan Alda, Buck Henry, Donald Sutherland,

Carrol O'Connor, George C. Scott, and August Wilson among others. Then she ran away with the circus. Robin traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey for about a year and a half as the Associate Production Manager for the 136th Blue Unit. In 2007, Matthew Weiner convinced her to move out of her train car and back to Los Angeles to work as the Writers'

Assistant on season one of MAD MEN. She co-wrote the season finale, "The Wheel," with

Matthew and has now officially joined the writing staff for season two.

DAN BISHOP

Production Designer

Production Designer Dan Bishop’s interest in design and how it relates to dramatic literature began with his introduction to live theatre and continues in the medium of film. His preference for projects that explore the nature and character of people, their regional cultures and histories, and the environments they live in, has directed him towards numerous period projects for both film and television. He and his collaborators at MAD

MEN - Art Director Chris Brown and Set Decorator Amy Wells - received an Art Directors

Guild award for their work on the first season.

Bishop returns for the second season of MAD MEN, having previously designed for HBO’s

“Carnivale” and “Big Love.” Some of his past film projects include Lone Star, Passion Fish and City Of Hope for director John Sayles; King of California for Mike Cahill; Thunderheart and Blink for Michael Apted; Panic for Henry Bromell; The Education of Little Tree for Richard

Friedenberg; Gridlock’d for Vondie Curtis-Hall; and Mystery Train for Jim Jarmusch.

He received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MFA from New York

University, both for Theatrical Design.

MALCOLM JAMIESON

Supervising Editor

Having edited the pilot and much of season one, Malcolm Jamieson returns to AMC's awardwinning series MAD MEN now acting as Supervising Editor.

Malcolm also edited the pilot for “Damage,” the critically acclaimed new drama from FX starring Glenn Close for which he was honored to be nominated for an ACE Eddie Award.

His film editing credits include Series 7: The Contenders directed by Daniel Minahan and starring Brooke Smith and Glenn Fitzgerald; Kill the Poor directed by Alan Taylor starring

David Krumholtz and Clara Bellar; Pipe Dream directed by John Walsh starring Mary-Louise

Parker and Martin Donovan; and Down to the Bone by Debra Granik which won best director at Sundance and a special jury prize for actress Vera Farmiga.

Working in film, television, and the visual arts since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1991, Malcolm now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons who look forward to summers in L.A. with MAD MEN.

CHRISTOPHER NELSON A.C.E.

Editor

Chris Nelson’s career as a film editor began on the mini-series The Captains and the Kings in the late 70s. Soon after, he began editing pilots such as “The Greatest American Hero,” for

Stephen Cannell. Nelson has received Best Editing Emmy nominations for: “Lost,” “Six Feet

Under,” “China Beach,” and “The Greatest American Hero” pilots. He also received an

American Cinema Editors nomination for editing the “West Wing” pilot and “Lost.”

With over 50 television movies and pilots to his credit, Nelson feels he’s been fortunate to have been part of a few that have had social significance. These include: the three hour

SHOWTIME movie “Thanks of a Grateful Nation,” the PBS special “I’ll Fly Away,” the pilot for

“China Beach,” and the HBO pilot “Six Feet Under.” Nelson is thrilled to be starting his second season with MAD MEN.

CINDY MOLLO

Editor

Cindy Mollo joins the editorial team of Mad Men for the second season of the award winning series.

Mollo began her career in New York where she edited the critically acclaimed dramas

“Homicide: Life on the Streets” and “Oz” for producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.

She was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Award for her work on “The Gas Man,” an episode from the fourth season of “Homicide” directed by Levinson.

Since moving to LA in 1998, Mollo has worked on feature projects including Panic and The

Sentinel. In addition she has worked on HBO’s prestigious pictures “Boycott,” “Point of

Origin” and “Path to Paradise.” In 1999, she was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding editing on “Dash & Lilly,” a film directed by Kathy Bates.

While in LA she has also edited the pilots for the series “Cold Feet,” “Lucky,” “Touching

Evil” and “Sleeper Cell.”

Mollo received her BA from Boston College, lived for many years in New York and still spends as much time there as much as she can. She enjoys living in her home in Santa

Monica with her dog Otis.

CHRISTOPHER MANLEY, ASC

Director of Photography

Christopher Manley studied filmmaking at Temple University in Philadelphia. He then earned his MFA in cinematography from the American Film Institute, where he was awarded the Eastman-Kodak Scholarship Award. His AFI thesis, My Mother Dreams the Satan’s

Disciples in New York (1999), won the Academy Award for best live-action short film.

Since AFI, Chris has filmed over a dozen independent movies including The Big Empty with

Jon Favreau, and the critically-acclaimed Dahmer. He’s also shot several TV movies and mini-series such as “The Phantom Eye,” an original movie for AMC, which earned him an

Emmy. Chris was twice nominated by the ASC for his episodic TV work on “Threat Matrix” and “CSI:NY.” He also shot the hit show “Prison Break.” Recently, Chris filmed the movie

Gracie starring Dermot Mulroney and Elisabeth Shue and directed by Oscar-winner Davis

Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth).

In 2007, Chris was inducted into the American Society of Cinematographers, becoming one of the youngest members in the modern era. This is his first season of MAD MEN

KATHERINE JANE BRYANT

Costume Designer

Clothing and fashion have been an obsession for Katherine Jane Bryant since her childhood in Cleveland, Tennessee. An avid movie fan, she preferred watching old films to spending time at the beach during summers at the family vacation home in Florida. The intricate costumes and vibrant colors from classic films like The Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, Gone

with the Wind and An American in Paris served as inspiration for her future career.

She studied drawing and painting at Georgia State University, but soon left for the American

College of the Applied Arts, where she shifted her focus to fashion design. After graduating

Cum Laude, she moved to Paris, then to New York, where she worked closely with fashion designer John Scher. Feeling restless in the fashion industry, Janie knew she had discovered the perfect career when she met a costume designer at a party.

Bryant worked on films and commercials in New York until 1999, and then moved to Los

Angeles to explore the opportunities on the west coast. Ironically, one of her first projects in

L.A. took her back to New York: David Milch's television series “Big Apple.” Her collaboration with Milch continued two years later when he asked her to design his new

HBO project "Deadwood." Her award-winning work has been featured in numerous feature films and television productions. Currently, she is the designer for AMC’s new critically acclaimed period 1960s drama series “Mad Men.” Bryant is a recent Costume Designers

Guild Award nominee (2005, 2006, 2007), as well as a now three-time Emmy nominee. She won the coveted Emmy for Outstanding Costumes in a Series for her work on “Deadwood”

(2005).

AMY WELLS

Set Decorator

This will be Amy Wells' second season as the Set Decorator for MAD MEN. A native New

Yorker, Amy graduated from USC's School of Cinema and TV. In her early career she assisted Academy Award winning set decorator Gretchen Rau and also Jim Erickson on Last

of the Mohicans and other films.

Wells went on to decorate such features as The Phantom, Clueless, Where the Heart Is and

American Pie as well as many sitcoms. Most recently she decorated the Los Angeles portion of There Will Be Blood and

Sex and the City. She received an Emmy nomination in 1998 for her work on the HBO series

"From the Earth to the Moon."

Wells is married to Location Manager Eric Klosterman and has a 10-year-old boy, Luke.

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