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Stephen Falk

creator/executive producer/showrunner You're The Worst; co-executive producer Orange is the New Black, co-executive producer Weeds
STEPHEN FALK is the Creator/Executive Producer/Showrunner of the FXX series “You’re The Worst,” which appeared on numerous Top 10 lists after each of its first two seasons; both seasons received nominations for Best Comedy at the Critics’ Choice Awards. Season 3 will air in 2016. As part of an overall deal with FX, he is currently developing four new comedies for the network. He served as Co-Executive Producer of Netflix’s “Orange Is The New Black,” and Showtime’s “Weeds.” In 2012 he served as the Creator/Executive Producer/Showrunner of "Next Caller," a half-hour single-cam comedy starring Dane Cook, Jeffrey Tambor, and Collette Wolfe which was picked up for NBC's 2012-2013 midseason schedule... and subsequently cancelled before airing. He is currently adapting the Scott Hutchins novel “A Working Theory Of Love” as a feature film. Stephen graduated from NYU with a BFA in Acting and started out writing plays -- later transitioning to feature films for such studios as Fox, Dimension, Universal, and then writing television pilots for Showtime, ABC, NBC, Fox, USA, and SyFy. Stephen received a 2012 Writers Guild Awards nomination for Episodic Comedy for writing an episode of Weeds called, "Object Impermanence” and a second in 2014 for his work on “Orange Is The New Black.” Stephen used to recap reality shows for the formerly-great Television Without Pity, is co-producer and sometimes host of a popular monthly storytelling series at The Virgil in Hollywood called Public School, and does a weekly webshow about movies with his group The Film Pigs. (Twitter: @stephenfalk for dumb jokes.)