Robert Schenkkan has received TWO Emmy Nominations in the same category,”Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Dramatic Special”for THE PACIFIC, Episodes #8 IWO JIMA and # 10 THE HOMECOMING! See the Nationally televised ceremony, Sunday, August 29th (check your local listings.)
Schenkkan is hired to adapt and Co-Executive Produce Taylor Branch’s Pulitzer prize winning trilogy, AMERICA IN THE TIME OF KING, as a seven part miniseries for HBO and Harpo Productions. Branch’s three books,PARTING THE WATERS, PILLAR OF FIRE, and AT CANAAN’S EDGE have long been regarded as the best and most thorough recounting of Martin Luther King and the American Civil Right’s movement.
Schenkkan has added new management: Dawn Saltzman from MOSAIC ENTERTAINMENT joins David Lubliner at WME in repping Schenkkan.
Look for the Seattle Children’s Theater announcement of a future production of Schenkkan’s adaptation of Linda Sue Park’s Newbery Award winning novel, A SINGLE SHARD.
Schenkkan just completed a residency at The Orchard Project with (among others) the Atlantic Theater Company, Dael Orlandersmith, Kerrigan and Lowdermilk, and Naked Angels.
Schenkkan had a workshop reading of his newest commissioned play, ALL THE WAY, for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Bill Rausch, as part of their AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS SERIES.
Schenkkan is at work on a new play commissioned jointly by Director Warner Shook and the South Coast Repertory Theater based on R. T. Smith’s short story, DOCENT.