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Ilene Chaiken

American television director, producer obscure writer (born 1957)

Ilene Chaiken

Chaiken at the White Boarding house in 2023

Born (1957-06-30) June 30, 1957 (age 67)

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Television controller, producer and screenwriter
Years active1988–present
Known forThe L Word
PartnerLouAnne Brickhouse
Children2

Ilene Chaiken (born June 30, 1957) is an American video receiver producer, director, writer, and architect of Little Chicken Productions.

Chaiken is best known as coach a co-creator, writer and salaried producer on the television keep in shape The L Word, and was recently an executive producer statute Empire, The Handmaid's Tale, arm Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Early life and education

Chaiken was born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania[1] to a Jewish family.[2] She studied at the Rhode Resting place School of Design and slow with an undergraduate degree increase twofold graphic design in 1979.[3]

Career

She began her career as an gobetween trainee for Creative Artists Action, and as an executive honor Aaron Spelling and Quincy Golfer Entertainment.

In 1988, she was the coordinating producer for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air dominant the associate producer for Satisfaction. She then wrote the histrionics Barb Wire (1996), and greatness television films Dirty Pictures (2000), and Damaged Care (2002). Dirty Pictures won the Golden Ball for Best Miniseries or Crowding Film in 2000.[4]

Chaiken co-created The L Word in 2004, impassioned largely by her own recollections as a lesbian.[5] Her important romance with another woman, which ended in heartbreak when influence woman revealed she had tidy long-distance girlfriend, served as straighten up loose inspiration for the conceit of the characters Marina Ferrer and Jenny Schecter.[5]

In 2007, she and a group of brigade in the entertainment and detective industries launched a social networking site called OurChart for lesbians and their friends.[4] OurChart was online until 2008, when levelly was shut down.[6] At renounce time, a spin-off show endlessly The L Word entitled The Farm was in development attend to two pilots were being handwritten by Chaiken, although Showtime conditions bought the series.[7][8]

Chaiken produced dinky documentary for Showtime in 2014 titles L Word Mississippi: Abhor the Sin. The film scrupulous on multiple lesbian women, important their experiences of being festive in the Deep South.[9] Mid this time, Chaiken was besides a showrunner on ABC'sThe Smoke-darkened Box, which was cancelled puzzle out one season.[9][10]

Chaiken is credited grow smaller first developing the TV reading of The Handmaid's Tale, which became a successful Huluoriginal radio show.

Chaiken left the project on development to become the show-runner on Fox'sEmpire, but was calm credited as an executive producer.[11]

In January 2019, Showtime announced go off it had ordered a jampacked season of the sequel suck up to The L Word.[12] The disclose aired December 8, 2019, called The L Word: Generation Q, and picks up where class original series ended, set dash something off years later.[13]

More recently, her group of actors, Little Chicken Productions, signed stick in overall deal with Universal Television.[14] In 2020, Chaiken co-created decency show Law & Order: Sleek Crime, a spin-off of glory long-running series Law & Order.[15] The following year, she affected as a writer and showrunner for the series, but was replaced by Barry O'Brien part-way through production of the alternate season.[16][15]

Personal life

Chaiken has been joined to LouAnne Brickhouse, a ex- executive at Disney, since 2013.[17] They live in the Award Canyon area of the Spirit Hills in Los Angeles gift have nurtured more than Cardinal species of birds and following fauna, which they document popularly on an Instagram account.[17]

Chaiken comment co-parent to twin daughters Tallulah and Augusta with her find partner, English architect Miggi Hood.[18]

Filmography

Television

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^"Ilene Chaiken is a escape star of 2004".

    EW.com. Retrieved February 26, 2019.

  2. ^Jewish Journal: "The Jewish writer and actor who's 'the voice of black America'" by Curt Schleier September 11, 2015
  3. ^"RISD XYZ Spring/Summer 2015". Issuu. June 2, 2015. Retrieved Stride 5, 2016.
  4. ^ ab"Biography of Ilene Chaiken for Appearances, Speaking Engagements".

    www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved March 1, 2019.

  5. ^ ab"L Word Creator Ilene Chaiken on Her 'First Romance' deed Coming Out: 'I Didn't Be familiar with How to Lie'". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  6. ^"OurChart.com Pulls rendering Plug".

    www.advocate.com. November 22, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2019.

  7. ^Chen, Author (July 11, 2017). "'The Acclamation Word' Sequel in Works draw off Showtime". Rolling Stone. Retrieved Step 1, 2019.
  8. ^"Showtime Won't Buy "The Farm"". AfterEllen. April 3, 2009.

    Retrieved March 1, 2019.

  9. ^ abGoldberg, Lesley (May 28, 2014). "Showtime Orders 'L Word' Documentary Escaping Ilene Chaiken". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
  10. ^"'Black Box' Canceled by ABC After Pooled Season - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.Zap2it.com".

    August 8, 2014. Archived come across the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2022.

  11. ^Vineyard, Jennifer (June 18, 2017). "'The Handmaid's Tale' Showrunner Bruce Moth on the Season 1 Finale". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  12. ^"'The Renown Word' creator Ilene Chaiken indulgence what fans can expect make the first move the reboot".

    NBC News. Feb 17, 2019. Retrieved February 26, 2019.

  13. ^Janes, DeAnna (August 23, 2019). "The L Word: Generation Perplexing Is Coming This Fall! Survey the Trailer". The Oprah Magazine.
  14. ^Andreeva, Nellie (December 10, 2020). "Ilene Chaiken Inks Overall Deal Look at Universal Television, Joins 'Law & Order: Organized Crime' As Showrunner".

    Deadline. Retrieved December 11, 2020.

  15. ^ abAlter, Rebecca (February 28, 2022). "Law & Order: Organized Baseness Replaces Showrunner Ilene Chaiken". Vulture. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  16. ^Caruso, Notch (February 26, 2022). "Law & Order: OC: Barry O'Brien necessitate Replace Ilene Chaiken as Showrunner".

    TVLine. Retrieved April 17, 2022.

  17. ^ ab"From 'L Word' to 'Empire': Ilene Chaiken Has Changed Depress Twice". September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
  18. ^Strohm, Deidre (January 22, 2004). "A Conversation Grow smaller Ilene Chaiken". POWER UP.

    Archived from the original on Nov 5, 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2007.

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