Bonnie Mark
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Bonnie Mark is an American television writer
and producer
. She has worked on the ABC
crime drama NYPD Blue
and the NBC crime dramas Third Watch
and Homicide: Life on the Street
. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
for her work on Homicide.
in 1993. The series was executive produced by Tom Fontana
and focused on a single squad of homicide detectives in the Baltimore police department. She was promoted to staff writer for the second season
in Spring 1994. She remained a staff writer for the third season
in Fall 1994. She contributed to four third season third season episodes as a writer. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Fits Like a Glove" from a story by Fontana and story editor Julie Martin
. Mark, Fontana and Martin were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award
for episodic drama at the February 1996 ceremony for writing "Fits Like a Glove". She co-wrote the story for the episode "The City That Bleeds" with executive story editor James Yoshimura
, Martin and story editor Jorge Zamacona
wrote the teleplay. She co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Law and Disorder" with Martin from a story by Yoshimura and co-executive producer Henry Bromell
. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Nothing Personal" from a story by Yoshimura and Fontana. She was promoted to story editor for the fourth season
in 1995. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Autofocus" from a story by Fontana and Bromell. She left the series at the end of the fourth season. She contributed to five episodes in total as a writer.
She served as an executive story editor for the police drama High Incident
in 1996. The show featured eight suburban police officers at work performing street law enforcement and in their home lives. The show was created by Steven Spielberg
, Michael Pavone
, Eric Bogosian
and Dave Alan Johnson.
In 1997 she worked as a writer for the HBO drama Feds
. The series was created and executive produced by Dick Wolf
. She wrote the episode "Smoking Gun". The show was canceled after one season. Also in 1997 she served as a co-producer for the short-lived crime drama C-16: FBI.
In 1998 she worked as a co-producer for the new legal drama series Michael Hayes
. The series was created by Paul Haggis
and John Romano. It focused on a new deputy prosecutor in New York. It was canceled while airing its first season.
. The show was created by Peter Berg
and focused on doctors at a psychiatric inpatient facility. Mark did not return when the series was picked up. The show was canceled after eight episodes.
In 2001 she became a supervising producer and writer for the NBC
emergency services drama Third Watch
. The show was created by retired police officer Edward Allen Bernero
and television producer John Wells
. She wrote four second season episodes; "The Tys That Bind", "Run of the Mill", "A Rock and a Hard Place" and "Walking Wounded". She left the crew after the second season ended.
In 2002 she served as a supervising producer for the short-lived drama series The Court. Also in 2002 she served as a consulting producer and writer for the police drama Robbery Homicide Division
. The series was created by Barry Schindel and executive produced by Michael Mann
and focused on a Los Angeles homicide unit. She wrote the story for the episode "In/Famous", Frank Spotnitz
wrote the teleplay.
She was hired as a co-executive producer for the eleventh season of ABC
police drama NYPD Blue
in 2003. The series was created by David Milch
and Steven Bochco
and followed a New York homicide unit. She co-wrote the story (with retired police officer and executive producer Bill Clark
) and wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Shear Stupidity" and "Passing the Stone".
In 2005 she served as a co-executive producer for new ABC drama Eyes
. The show follows a firm of fringe private investigators. The series aired as a mid-season replacement and was canceled after six episodes. Eyes was Mark's last television work.
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
. She has worked on the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
crime drama NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
and the NBC crime dramas Third Watch
Third 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....
and Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...
. 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 her work on Homicide.
1990s
Mark began working in television as a script co-ordinator for the first season of Homicide: Life on the StreetHomicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...
in 1993. The series was executive produced by Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana
Tom Fontana is an American writer and producer.-TV career:Fontana has been a writer/producer for such series as Oz , The Jury, The Beat, The Bedford Diaries, Homicide: Life on the Street, St...
and focused on a single squad of homicide detectives in the Baltimore police department. She was promoted to staff writer for the second season
Homicide: Life on the Street (season 2)
The second season of Homicide: Life on the Street, an American police procedural drama television series, originally aired in the United States between January 6 and January 27, 1994. Due to low Nielsen ratings during the first season, NBC executives decided to order only a four-episode season,...
in Spring 1994. She remained a staff writer for the third season
Homicide: Life on the Street (season 3)
The third season of Homicide: Life on the Street aired in the United States on the NBC television network from 1994-10-14 to 1995-05-05 and contained 20 episodes. It was the first full season of episodes.The third season marked the debut of character Lt...
in Fall 1994. She contributed to four third season third season episodes as a writer. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Fits Like a Glove" from a story by Fontana and story editor Julie Martin
Julie Martin (writer)
Julie Martin is an American television writer and producer. She has worked on the NBC crime dramas Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She won a Humanitas Prize and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on Homicide...
. Mark, Fontana and Martin 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 episodic drama at the February 1996 ceremony for writing "Fits Like a Glove". She co-wrote the story for the episode "The City That Bleeds" with executive story editor James Yoshimura
James Yoshimura
James Yoshimura is a Japanese American writer and producer, best known for his screenwriting work on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the short-lived Fox series The Jury, for which he served as a co-creator. He also co-wrote Homicide: The Movie, a made-for-television film that came...
, Martin and story editor Jorge Zamacona
Jorge Zamacona
Jorge Zamacona is an American television writer and producer. He worked extensively on the police drama Homicide: Life on the Street and wrote the series cross-over episodes with the crime drama Law & Order...
wrote the teleplay. She co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Law and Disorder" with Martin from a story by Yoshimura and co-executive producer Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell is an American author, screenwriter, and director.Bromell attended Eaglebrook School and the United World College of the Atlantic . He graduated from Amherst College in 1970. He won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for his first novel, The Slightest Distance...
. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Nothing Personal" from a story by Yoshimura and Fontana. She was promoted to story editor for the fourth season
Homicide: Life on the Street (season 4)
The fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street aired in the United States on the NBC television network from 1995-10-20 to 1996-05-17 and contained 22 episodes....
in 1995. She wrote the teleplay for the episode "Autofocus" from a story by Fontana and Bromell. She left the series at the end of the fourth season. She contributed to five episodes in total as a writer.
She served as an executive story editor for the police drama High Incident
High Incident
High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson...
in 1996. The show featured eight suburban police officers at work performing street law enforcement and in their home lives. The show was created by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
, Michael Pavone
Michael Pavone
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, Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...
and Dave Alan Johnson.
In 1997 she worked as a writer for the HBO drama Feds
Feds (TV series)
Feds was a short-lived television series that aired on CBS from March 5, 1997 to April 9, 1997. It was created by Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order, and starred Blair Brown and Dylan Baker. Michael S. Chernuchin was also an executive producer for the project...
. The series was created and executive produced by Dick Wolf
Dick Wolf
Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolf is an American producer, specializing in crime dramas such as Miami Vice and the Law & Order franchise. Throughout his career he has won several awards including an Emmy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.-Early life:Wolf was born in New York City, the son...
. She wrote the episode "Smoking Gun". The show was canceled after one season. Also in 1997 she served as a co-producer for the short-lived crime drama C-16: FBI.
In 1998 she worked as a co-producer for the new legal drama series Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes (TV series)
Michael Hayes was a TV series that ran on CBS from 1997 to 1998. It starred David Caruso and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.This series spotlighting surveys Michael Hayes, a former policeman became Deputy Prosecutor of the City of New York....
. The series was created by Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.-Early life and education:...
and John Romano. It focused on a new deputy prosecutor in New York. It was canceled while airing its first season.
2000s
In 2000 she served as a producer for the pilot of psychiatric drama WonderlandWonderland (TV series)
Wonderland was a short-lived and controversial 2000 ABC television drama directed by Peter Berg. It depicted daily life in a mental institution, from the perspectives of both the doctors and patients. Only two episodes aired on ABC during its original run in 2000...
. The show was created by Peter Berg
Peter Berg
Peter Berg is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is known for directing films such as Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock and Battleship. He also developed the television series Friday Night Lights, which was adapted from the film he directed. As an actor...
and focused on doctors at a psychiatric inpatient facility. Mark did not return when the series was picked up. The show was canceled after eight episodes.
In 2001 she became a supervising producer and writer for the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
emergency services drama Third Watch
Third 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 show was created by retired police officer Edward Allen Bernero
Edward Allen Bernero
Edward Allen Bernero is an American television writer, producer and director. He co-created the series Third Watch and has worked as an executive producer on Criminal Minds...
and television producer 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 four second season episodes; "The Tys That Bind", "Run of the Mill", "A Rock and a Hard Place" and "Walking Wounded". She left the crew after the second season ended.
In 2002 she served as a supervising producer for the short-lived drama series The Court. Also in 2002 she served as a consulting producer and writer for the police drama Robbery Homicide Division
Robbery Homicide Division
Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann.-Premise:...
. The series was created by Barry Schindel and executive produced by Michael Mann
Michael Mann (film director)
Michael Kenneth Mann is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including those at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
and focused on a Los Angeles homicide unit. She wrote the story for the episode "In/Famous", Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz is an award-winning American television writer and producer, best known for his work on The X-Files television series.-Biography:...
wrote the teleplay.
She was hired as a co-executive producer for the eleventh season of ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
police drama NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
in 2003. The series was created by David Milch
David Milch
David S. Milch is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue and Deadwood.-Biography:...
and Steven Bochco
Steven Bochco
Steven Ronald Bochco is a US television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, as well as some notable flops such as Cop Rock....
and followed a New York homicide unit. She co-wrote the story (with retired police officer and executive producer Bill Clark
Bill Clark
Clark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
) and wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Shear Stupidity" and "Passing the Stone".
In 2005 she served as a co-executive producer for new ABC drama Eyes
Eyes (TV series)
Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management which uses marginally legal means to investigate individuals and crimes where law enforcement would fall short...
. The show follows a firm of fringe private investigators. The series aired as a mid-season replacement and was canceled after six episodes. Eyes was Mark's last television work.