Tony Winner Leight to Create New FOX Series

According to Deadline.com, Tony Award winning playwright Warren Leight is on board to create a new medical series for FOX. Acting as consulting producers for the project are Lori Andrews and Jon Shestack.  

Leight's 1998 play "Side Man" won him the Tony Award and nominations for both the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2001, his play "Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine" was produced by the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and the Manhattan Theatre Club in NYC with John Spencer. He contributed works to The 24 Hour Plays, a unique theatrical event in which six short plays are written, rehearsed, directed, and performed within 24 hours, in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007. His 2006 off-Broadway effort, "No Foreigners Beyond This Point", earned him another Drama Desk nomination. Other plays include "James and Annie" and "Stray Cats".

Leight ventured into television as a freelance writer for 100 Centre Street in 2002. On a suggestion from playwright Theresa Rebeck, Law & Order: Criminal Intent executive producer René Balcer hired Leight to join the staff of the series in its second season as a writer/producer. His colleagues included a reference to Leight's play "Side Man" in a third-season episode, "Shrink-Wrapped"; a bickering couple argues about the motivations of the married couple in the play. Upon a recommendation from Balcer, Leight was named the show's executive producer and head writer in 2006 when Balcer left the show at the end of the fifth season. In 2008, he left the show after its seventh season to be the showrunner for HBO's series In Treatment.

On July 23, 2009, it was announced that Warren Leight had joined FX's new drama Lights Out.

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