Angela Amato Velez
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Angela Amato Velez is an American television writer and producer. She has also worked as a police officer, legal aid attorney and novelist. She has worked as a writer and producer on the police drama Southland
and the legal drama The Good Wife. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
for best new series for The Good Wife in 2010.
. The series was produced by John Wells
. She wrote the fifth season episodes "A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn" and "In Plain View". She continued in the same role for the series sixth and final season in 2004. She wrote the episodes "Forever Blue" and "End of Tour".
Amato Velez joined Wells on his next police project, a drama entitled Southland
. She served as a consulting producer and writer on the series first season. Amato Velez co-wrote the episode "Sally in the Alley" with creator and executive producer Ann Biderman
. She also co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Westside" with fellow consulting producer Dee Johnson based on a story by Biderman. She left the crew of Southland after the first season.
She became a consulting producer and writer for the first season of CBS legal drama The Good Wife. She wrote the episode "Conjugal". Amato Velez and the writing staff were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
for best new series for their work on the first season. She left the series when it completed its original thirteen episode order despite a further nine episodes being ordered.
Southland (TV series)
Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...
and the legal drama The Good Wife. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...
for best new series for The Good Wife in 2010.
Career
Amato Velez began working in television in 2003 as a story consultant and writer for the NBC police drama Third WatchThird Watch
Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in 6 seasons of 22 episodes each....
. The series was produced by John Wells
John Wells (TV producer)
John Marcum Wells is an American theater and television producer, writer and director. He is best known for his role as executive producer and show runner of the television series ER, Third Watch, and The West Wing. His company, John Wells Productions, is currently based at Warner Bros. studios in...
. She wrote the fifth season episodes "A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn" and "In Plain View". She continued in the same role for the series sixth and final season in 2004. She wrote the episodes "Forever Blue" and "End of Tour".
Amato Velez joined Wells on his next police project, a drama entitled Southland
Southland (TV series)
Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...
. She served as a consulting producer and writer on the series first season. Amato Velez co-wrote the episode "Sally in the Alley" with creator and executive producer Ann Biderman
Ann Biderman
Ann Biderman is an American film and television writer. She is the creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed NBC/TNT series Southland, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series for an episode of NYPD Blue.-Career:In the 2008 to 2009...
. She also co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Westside" with fellow consulting producer Dee Johnson based on a story by Biderman. She left the crew of Southland after the first season.
She became a consulting producer and writer for the first season of CBS legal drama The Good Wife. She wrote the episode "Conjugal". Amato Velez and the writing staff were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949...
for best new series for their work on the first season. She left the series when it completed its original thirteen episode order despite a further nine episodes being ordered.